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.
“Pakistani family slaughtered in honor killing,” Associated Press, December 10, 2014:
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani police Wednesday were looking for four men believed to have killed a couple and their four children as retribution for a perceived “honor crime.”
Police officer Mohammed Aslam said the killings happened Tuesday in the town of Athara Hazari in central Pakistan.
Aslam said the men are believed to have hacked the family to death with axes and knives. One daughter, identified by police as Aisha, survived and relayed what happened to authorities. She and the other bodies were found after a man delivering milk to the house noticed that no one was coming to the door, Aslam said.
Aisha told authorities the killings stemmed from her mother’s first marriage nearly 30 years ago to another man, Aslam said.
Another police officer, Mian Mohammad, said Ghulam Fatima’s son from her first marriage visited the family a few days ago. He was joined on Tuesday by three more men, who the police say helped him with the crime.
The surviving daughter told authorities that the son said he was taking revenge on her for leaving her first husband.
“It is an incident of honor killing,” said Mohammad.
In Pakistan, leaving one’s husband or marrying against a family’s wishes is extremely rare. Such actions are often perceived as crimes against the family’s honor and the woman can be killed in order to restore the family’s reputation.
Such retribution can be carried out years, even decades later. The killings are rarely prosecuted.
somehistory says
I would just comment “good grief”…but no grief is good. And this is terrible. A “son” to do that to his mother! And to children.
Champ says
It is sooo clear that islam is a demonically inspired *death cult* and evil to the core; beginning, but not ending with, muhammad (perdition be upon him).
This crime is pure savagery …and the unholy quran instructs mohammedans to commit these barbaric crimes.
I never tire of stating the ugly and unvarnished TRUTH about islam and company …
“Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.” — Romans 12:9
somehistory says
Like the Apostle Peter said, “Love covers a multitude of sins (1Peter 4:8)” and Proverbs 10:12 says that “hatred stirs up conflict,” it is clear this guy hated his mother. There is no love in islam. Only hatred for all things right and good and lust for evil things such as murder, rape, lying and theft.
Great will be the time when there is no evil, no islam to hate or hear about.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
When a group falls into the habit of declaring dedication to family, my bullsheet sensors (long tentacles like those sprouting from the top of a roach’s head) wiggle in suspicion. For example, when a rap “singer” falls into the routine we-are-fam-i-lee chant, I can’t help but think of 75% of black babies being born and raised as bastards, Dad have disappeared into the mist to head on to his next hump-and-dump escapade.
Moslems claim to be great family people. The likes of Bill O’Reilly and the Rev. Louis Farrakhan have complimented them on their high ethic for work and family. But the Holy Islam is more important than even family. In fact, the Ummah *is* the Great Family. Sometimes in life tough decisions must be made, and if a Dad has to murder a wife or daughter to uphold the family’s honor, well, then that is the right thing to do. It is emotionally tough on Dad and the surviving family members, but it’s gotta be done.
Jaladhi says
All Muslims criminals are following their criminal cult leaders Mo/allah!! There is no exception to this rule!!
mariam rove says
But Robert: didn’t just post an article that Reza Aslam claims that women are equal to men in muslim countries?!!!! m
Islamisdeath says
STFU you ignorant troll. No other religion sanctions murder for honor none only the death cult islam.
Salah says
“It is not necessary to rewash the dead after penetration…
There is no punishment for having intercourse with a dead woman…”
Hawashi Al-Sharwani v.1 p.263 حواشي الشرواني
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/03/necrophilia-in-islam-necrophilie-en.html
sidney penny says
“Such retribution can be carried out years, even decades later. The killings are rarely prosecuted.”
Oops!
The Sharia Courts in Pakistan are not doing a very good job, convicting people of violence against woman.
Jae M says
Justifying sin: murder, envy, pride, lust, lying and yet somehow they can’t see it is wrong? Rabid dogs have more sense of compassion.