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.
“Brooklyn cabbie convicted of plotting Pakistan ‘honor killings,'” by Nate Raymond, Reuters, July 3, 2014:
NEW YORK, July 3 (Reuters) – A New York cab driver was found guilty on Friday of conspiring with relatives in Pakistan to commit “honor killings” of family members of a relative he believed helped his daughter escape back to the United States.
Mohammad Ajmal Choudhry, 61, was found guilty by a federal jury in Brooklyn on charges of conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country, transmitting of threats to injure, and visa fraud.
Prosecutors said that for more than three years, Choudhry’s daughter, Amina Ajmal, was held against her will by relatives in Pakistan at her father’s direction, and forced into an arranged marriage to help a man get a U.S. visa.
With the help of a cousin and the U.S. State Department, Ajmal eventually escaped and returned to the United States in January 2013, prosecutors said.
Back in the United States, Ajmal did not tell her father her whereabouts, but spoke with him in recorded phone calls.
In those calls, prosecutors said Choudhry threatened to orchestrate the murder of her cousin if she did not return immediately to her family home in Brooklyn.
“I will not end this, until I find you,” he said on Feb. 21, 2013, according to court records. “I will kill their entire family.”
Four days after the call, the cousin’s father and sister were shot dead in Pakistan and a third relative was severely injured, prosecutors said.
In court filings, prosecutors said an eyewitness observed Choudhry’s brother “standing over the murdered victims, holding a gun, and desecrating the bodies.”
In a call that day between Ajmal and her father, Choudhry said he would “not leave a single member of their family alive.”
“My name is tainted everywhere in newspapers, on TV channels, that I am a man with no honor, my daughters are whores,” he said. “I have no place to show my face with dignity.”
Choudrhy was arrested later that day outside his home in Brooklyn. Neither his brother nor anyone else in Pakistan was charged, according to a spokesman for Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, who confirmed the verdict.
miriam rove says
“My name is tainted everywhere in newspapers, on TV channels, that I am a man with no honor, my daughters are whores,” he said. “I have no place to show my face with dignity.”……
that is because Islam has no honor…m
Shane says
Why do we let these savages into our country? Muslims will not assimilate into our culture. They bring polygamy, wife beating, honor killings, sharia law and other nasty stuff into the USA and other Western nations.
Jaladhi says
Muslims commit 99.999999%, almost 100%, of honor killings in this world. This no taqiyya and is the truth and nothing but the truth!!
PRCS says
It’s hard to imagine that a cabbie has had his name disparaged “everywhere” in newspapers, on TV channels, that he is a man with no honor, and that his daughters are whores.
Really?
Would that really be “everywhere”?
Anyone here ever hear of him until today? Every newspaper, everywhere, has his face plastered in headlines above the fold? Anyone, anywhere, seen this tale dishonor on the evening news?
It will be interesting to read–soon–of the sentence imposed by our fellow filthy kuffar.
Citizen Warrior says
Why are 85% of Taxi drivers Indian/Pakistani ? Australia, UK, Canada and even the USA – and here in Australia they own all the Dollar Shops as well????
What’s behind this??
Mr Ed says
In the US there is / was reputedly a US Gov program that brought Pakistanis here & financed their purchase of motels and convenience stores. I used to travel the US and Pakistanis are heavily represented in motel ownership … and, in my experience, lousy innkeepers.
Betty says
they are nasty looking to. all that facial hair. germs by the millions. ROBERT HAVE YOUR FACE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD YOU WOULD PASS FOR ONE OF THESE SAVAGES. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO AMERICAN MEN? is it they are just to lazy. to be clean shaven. small mustache not so bad as long as it is kept up. other wise for get it.