Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.” However, “not subject to retaliation” is “a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring.” (‘Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2). In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law. In this case, of course, the victim was the murderer’s wife, a victim to the culture of violence and intimidation that such laws help create.
The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but “the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour ‘provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.’” And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that “Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.”
Until the encouragement Islamic gives to honor killing is acknowledged and confronted, more women will suffer.
“Couple beheaded in public over love marriage,” Dawn, June 27, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
SIALKOT: A couple was beheaded in cold blood by the family of the girl over love marriage in Satrah village of Daska tehsil, some 65km from here, on Friday.
According to the FIR lodged with Satrah police station, Sajjad Ahmed, 27, of village Hasanabad, Sialkot, had contracted a love marriage with Muafia Bibi, 23, of Satrah on June 18.
On Friday, seven members of Muafia’s family, including her father Dilshad alias Kulla, uncle Ghulam Husain, Shamshad, Afzaal Husain and Bashiran Bibi, stormed into house of the newly-weds in Hasanabad, bundled them into a van and took them to an outhouse at Satrah.
The suspects tied up the legs and arms of Sajjad and Muafia and cut off their heads with choppers in public but nobody dared stop them, the FIR said. The suspects fled from the village after the incident.
Sajjad’s family told Dawn the couple had come into contact several months ago and wanted to get married but Muafia’s parents didn’t agree to her marriage with Sajjad which led to their love marriage. They said the couple was issued threats by the girl’s family.
Police handed over the bodies to Sajjad’s family after autopsy at Daska Civil Hospital. They were laid to rest amid police security.
Daska DSP Rana Zahid Husain told newsmen that police were conducting raids to arrest the suspects. The FIR was registered under various sections of the PPC and Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
John C. Barile says
Charged under an anti-terror statute. I guess that circumvents having the local ulema council negotiate blood money as a settlement.
John C. Barile says
For killing Sajjad; Muafia’s murder would thus go unavenged.
Dr. Usman says
There is no concession for such an act in Islam. Relatives can forgive the murderer but not in this case as the relatives are murderers. State should be the sole prosecutor in such incidents. I know that this “honor killing” term is a non-sense term used by some greedy people who kill innocent (in 99% cases women) because of their own reasons. More than 90% of honor killings are actually just because relatives don’t want family property to go out of family. I am not a supporter of terrorism at all but to actually stop such incidents, these greedy/terrorist minded people should be publicly executed by the government. I am sure that after 2-3 public executions of these people, there would be no honor killing for the next 1-2 decades.
Jan Fourowls says
Thank you for Robert Spencer’s authorship in dangerous times for practitioners of free speech. Even if I weren’t a Christian, I would oppose Islam as a dangerous sociopolitical system (masquerading in word alone as peaceful religion) not only for its jihadic violence but for the extreme misogyny practiced in various parts of the world by Muslims —- “honor” killings of girls and women, stonings and amputations under Sharia law, female genital mutilation, sexual abomination called “marriage” with female children by male adulation of Mohammed’s practice of taking a child “bride” during his practice of polygamy, shrouding women with no light in their eyes and having them walk behind their husbands, which I see in America when they shop next to me in the same stores — despite the occasional “token” woman trumpeted by taqiyyah through the mainstream Islam-apologist media as if Islam is about equality.
I have been appalled this week to learn of encroaching Chrislam in an Assemblies of God church I’d chosen to visit as a community newcomer. The senior AG pastor shared in prayer service about accepting an interfaith alliance invitation of the imam of the major mosque in what is a symbolic capital city in a major venue of the U.S. Typically, the city’s major mosque center is situated for symbolic minaret visibility at the conjunction of the two major freeways going through the city. Of course by the Islamic public relations practices in the USA, the pastor (who has his own strong political profile locally) by imam invitation would enter their mosque, their space, to lend more credence to their claims to be a religion of peace and tolerance. I am now considering other church options, including the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (not Presbyterian USA), because of this 8-year-old blog post of a pastor of a church which left the Presbyterian USA pro-Islamic interfaith-apologist denomination for EPC: http://tomgrayofthekirk.blogspot.com/2006/09/dhimmitude.html.
Anne Graham Lotz (Billy Graham’s daughter) has a prayer suggestion across the Jesus-following faith spectrum for us to join in a unity of our own during the Muslim month of Ramadan in July 2014 (when also the city of Los Angeles will be honoring Muslim American “heritage” during the same month as the U.S. Independence Day born of the blood of true patriots): http://www.annegrahamlotz.com/events/urgent-call-to-prayer/
Anne Graham Lotz also has this Youtube shot in Old Jerusalem overlooking Islam’s conquest symbol, Dome of the Rock, with discussions of the children of Israel and the gospel of Jesus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=864g8XYKNAk
People have to be media-brainwashed not to see the countless ways Muslims throughout the globe symbolize religious lust for dominance over Christians and Jews geographically, culturally, legally and societally. Instead of fasting from media, Americans will be at the multi-plex this weekend, forgetting even more about the ground-zero victory mosque at the site of 9/11 and every other usurpation of American Judeo-Christian values that Islamists can accomplish through taqiyyah. We fast approach an America where it would be labeled Islamophobic to teach founding patriot Patrick Henry’s famous “give me liberty or give me death” speech because it also quoted from the Bible. “For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, Saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ When there is no peace.” Jeremiah 8:11 (KJV).
Count me clearly among those who follow the injunction to love (not join) the Islamist enemies of Christians and Jews, and be in unity while we convey the gospel on behalf of those who don’t know Jesus Christ as Savior and Redeemer. See, e.g., 2 Corinthians 6:14 -18; John 17:20-23.
My love of the Lord my God and Jesus Christ who is the only way to the Father (also the same God of Abraham and Sarah by the Jewish scriptures canonical in Christianity) precludes my tolerance of the false doctrine of interfaith equivalency with Islam.
Jay Boo says
Ref to:
“I have been appalled this week to learn of encroaching Chrislam in an Assemblies of God church I’d chosen to visit as a community newcomer. ”
Beware of the harmless sounding word ‘INTERFAITH’
While it could mean between Christians of different denominations the promoters of this word sometimes won’t specifically say that they wish to include Islam.
Jay Boo says
@Jan Fourowls
Excellent post
Jan Fourowls says
Recently my faith in Jesus Christ woke me up to reality through prayer and comparing the Bible with the Quran about how much Islam as a religion to its faithful insiders teaches cruel punishment and hatred against Christians and Jews who will not convert to Islam.
Thank you for the kind words and interfaith caution!
Jacksonl03 says
Another example of why the vast majority of truly moderate Muslims do not follow normal human instincts and behaviors: The 10 to 15 percent of savage Muslim believers (ie., 100 to 160 million) will rape, murder and maim in retaliation and the 10 to 15 percent of passive Muslim believers (another 100 to 150 million) will stand around and watch.
Only the very brave can face that.
Ah, the faithful. Ain’t belief in God and Allah wonderful? So inspiring! So spiritually satisfying. Let us kneel and knock our heads on the pavement.
sidney penny says
or the nearest wall
Jay Boo says
Islamic practice brings Muslims to such a point of spiritual emptiness that their craving for piety becomes so great that they inevitably butcher their own relatives to experience the fleeting moment self-righteous ecstasy of partnering with Allah.
Then the return to their grim existence and the process starts all over again.
shosh7154 says
The empty and false promises of islam leave those who follow it frustrated and angry filling them with imaginations of wrongs done to them to explain their misery. A never-ending string of lies to support the teachings until there is no tolerance for truth from any source. The Islamic order to kill non-muslim until religion is for allah fans the raging fires of hatred in their hearts and makes certain the downward plunge into hell.
medina says
“I have been appalled this week to learn of encroaching Chrislam in an Assemblies of God church I’d chosen to visit as a community newcomer. ”
Jan, you have my empathy because as a Catholic, I have witnessed similar blasphemy by ordained pastors. What is being taught in seminaries today?
Equating the Islamic moon god Al’lah with the Judeo-Christian God of the Bible is not only heretical, but illogical for anyone familiar with these religions. It is obvious these false teachers wish to be on the cutting edge of a feel-good, get-along movement which betrays not only their flocks but God. Remember the verse: “To those who have been given much, more is expected.” Those preachers were given assemblies and parishes, and have used their authority in the Church to mislead and subvert the Truth. It is possible to be civil with those who do not share your beliefs, but instead of sharing the Gospel they are denying it.
Jan Fourowls says
Agreed, Medina — we are discussing religious ideology for all Jesus followers and God’s covenant people (including the hatefulness of Islam as a global ideology of domination against all they dub unbelievers as “People of the Book,” Jews, Messianic Jews, Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Protestants, Pentecostals, all other Christians).
As Jesus followers we are not expressing anything but love and a hope (however slim the odds) that Muslims might somehow find their way to Jesus Christ (or at least out of the false spiritual promises of Islam and its sword-wielding founder).
I’ve heard that Christians in the mission field report the occasional Muslim who claims seeing a dream that equates with the transfigured Jesus as gospel-reported. I can only wonder if it’s more “Trojan horse” taquiyyah. It certainly seems to suck in scarce missions resources for very little return. (Guess this opinion is why God hasn’t called me to the mission field for Muslims.) The head-shrouded women who shop in my neighborhood in the U.S. never so much as make eye contact and seem angrily repulsed by the sight of non-Muslims. Very sad, and they stay in my prayers.
Reality Check says
Savage people. They should be stopped from immigrating to any point of the globe outside Pakistan. They take their backwardness wherever they go.
I had some Pakistani colleagues in Qatar and they were outwardly OK but articles like this one make me wonder if they were pretending to be more civilized and culturally sophisticated than they really were.
Charli main says
On my first overseas job in an Arab oil country, I was taken under the wing of a kindly old Scots tool pusher.
I´m going to tell you something, that you will regret, if you ever forget it, he said to me.
You see all these Libyans folk, on their own they will smile and shake your hand and be your best friend, but get them in a group and they will turn on you like a pack of mad dogs because you are an infidel.
Wise words that consistently proved to be true over the years.
RIP Jock D76
Reality Check says
Charli,
I have no confidence in the Libyans, either, and neither does anybody from my country. Have you ever heard about the HIV trial in Libya, also known as the Bulgarian nurses affair?
In 1998, the Libyans charged five Bulgarian nurses with conspiracy to deliberately infect over 400 Libyan children with HIV. Of course the infection predated the nurses’ arrival in Libya but it was a fact and the smelly Muslim animals needed a scapegoat (preferably a foreign one) to cover up the poor hygiene of their own staff, which led to the mass infection.
The five women were forced to confess under torture with electric shocks and threats that their families would be targeted. They were first sentenced to death, then had their case remanded by Libya’s highest court, and were sentenced to death again, a penalty which was upheld by Libya’s highest court in early July, 2007.
They were eventually released but returned ruined to their old lives.
It is a very long and absolutely horrific story, which attracted a lot of attention worldwide at the time.
What’s really devious is the way the Libyans chose their scapegoats – they chose five women from a country with very little if no power and influence on world affairs – women from a country which is unable to retaliate in an impressive way. They were not Americans, not British, not French, not German, etc. – in short, they were white European Christians from a politically and economically weak country that would not be able to deliver an instant and impressive blow at their oil-soaked Muslim shithole.
Animals like the Libyans know how to sniff out the right victims – therefore I have nothing but contempt for Libya and zero sympathy for what’s going on there right now.
Here is something for you to read:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_trial_in_Libya
RC
Reality Check says
Charli,
I hope you read this – you last response to me vanished from this page. I received it by e-mail but I don’t find it here at all.
Is there someone who deletes comments on this site? That simply doesn’t make any sense.
Here is your missing comment:
“RC
I last worked in Libya in 1992 but I know of this case.
I am also full aware of the appalling way that Bulgarian nurses were treated in Tripoli and Benghazi. I didn´t have much contact with these ladies, as I was always working in deep desert locations.
It was common knowledge that these poor girls were expected to provide non medical services for the Libyans if they wanted to keep their jobs. I´m sure you know what I mean !!!!
I too, have nothing but contempt for these roaches that exploited the poverty of others.”
RC
Charli Main says
RC
I too wondered about my vanishing post. Strange things happen in cyber space, time to time.
keep the faith—we will win in the end.!!!
duh_swami says
The brothers did the right thing. If you expect to get into Allah’s brothel in the sky, you have to make him/it, happy. Allah has been happy for the last 1400 years.
There is no reason to stop him/it from being happy now and well into the future.
He wrote all about it in his, ‘Book of Happiness’, that is now called Quran…
bobm says
their blood lust and rage and hunger as Jay puts it are based on the hunger man has for he Blood of Christ…which they refuse!.. they will not be satiated without Christ.. and upon their death will be separated from God forever.. until then the Lord still stands at the door of their heart.
Dee Harris says
An absolute wickedness! The awful thing is that these actions yield no punishment. It’s like approved murder! GOD Almighty,
help us all from becoming savage beasts.