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.
“Two sisters killed for ‘honour,’” Dawn, February 2, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
JHANG: Two sisters were killed by their three brothers for ‘honour’ here on Sunday at Chak No. 181/JB.
Reports said Zulekhan and Gulzar Bibi refused to marry men of their family’s choice and wanted to contract love marriage.
The family members allegedly detained them at house and arranged their marriage.
The girls in order to avert forced marriage tried to leave the house while their brothers Muhammad Asif, Shahbaz and Arshad fired on them, killing them on the spot.
Azhar Khan, father of the girls, approached the police who registered a case against his sons. No arrests have been made so far.
Richie says
It seems when Muslim men aren;t killing their sisters, they are having sex with them
Salah says
Incest is allowed in Islam, Muhammad practised it.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/02/muhammad-and-incest.html
M S case says
That’s true and there is a lot of things that is allowed in islam that is against all the principals, laws constitution, practices and I could go on and on with stuff that their book allows that we as westerners
hold in contempt but is there anyone out there trying to do anything about it. NOT LATELY
Matthieu Baudin says
Dominance and submission permeates the mind set of Islamic societies across the globe and should it be any surprise to anyone familiar with the Allah of the Koran? A woman’s right to chose a mate is universal and is a biological necessity for the optimum physical health of offspring and ultimately opens the door to happier and richer lives for both men and women.
Ayatrollah says
It seems like the brothers killed without right. They should be punished even under islamic law. We will,have to see. I bet the brothers had a deal where they got some cash for the girls marrying the “right” guy. How filthy.
gravenimage says
Ayatrollah wrote:
It seems like the brothers killed without right. They should be punished even under islamic law.
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Based on *what*, Ayatrollah? Under Islam, male family members can murder “disobedient” women—which these victims surely were, for not passively obeying their family’s plans to marry them off. And Muslim women need not actually agree to the marriage at all—”silence means consent”. And if they are not silent, they may well suffer the same fate as these victims. Resisting forced marriage is, in fact, one of the most common reasons for Honor Killing.
And I wouldn’t assume that dear old dad was against the murders. Notice that none of the brothers have been arrested, and the article doesn’t say that they have fled.
The may not be arrested at all, and likely won’t serve much time if they are.
I appreciate your comments, but I think you are off base here. There is nothing un-Islamic about these murders.
St. Michael Defend Us says
I certainly wouldn’t doubt that there was money at stake for the father, and possibly the brothers, for arranging the marriages to the “right” people. However, killing the girls outright, rather than merely beating them into submission, is sort of like killing the goose laying the golden eggs.
Whenever I read about women being killed by their BROTHERS, rather than their husbands or fathers, I always suspect the additional motive of inheritance. It’s a “two-fer”, he gets to bask in the glory of self-righteous Islamic “honor”, AND he eliminates having to share any inheritance, even her smaller share, with a sister.
Big Bad Wolf says
And there are STILL people out there who actually believe Islam is a peaceful religion!
Hahahahahahaha
M S case says
THEY ARE PEACEFUL ALLRIGHT AND THEY ARE TAKING A “PIECE” AT A TIME. PEACE and PIECE SOUNDS THE SAME BUT HAVE A MUCH DIFFERENT MEANING. THEY DON’T HAVE AN AIR FORCE, NAVY, MARINES AND NOT MUCH OF AN ARMY. THEN THERE IS THE ARMY THAT THEY HAVE SCATTERED ALL OVER EUROPE AND THE WEST THAT ARE SET TO TAKE A PIECE AT A TIME. ARE WE JUST GOING TO STAND THERE AND LET THEM CONDTINUE AS THEY ARE DOING OR IS THE FREE WORLD GOING TO SAY THEY HAVE HAD ENOUGH AND PUT A STOP TO THEIR MADNESS ONCE AND FOR ALL. WAR IS AWFUL HITLER PROVED THAT BUT WE TOOK CARE OF HIM AND HIS NAZI’S .THE MUSLIMS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DO THE SAME THING HE TRIED FOR CENTURIES, ARE WE JUST GOING TO LET IT HAPPEN. DTHEY ARE PATIENT. BUT I DON’T KNOW ABOUT OTHERS ON JIHADWATCH BUT MY PATIENCE IS WERING OUT.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
How touching!
Leave it to islam to really go the limit in showing family feelings. They are similarly admirable in their religious fervor. ‘Christians will die for their God-we will kill for ours’.
I am speechless as, doubtless, are we all.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslim brothers kill their sisters for wanting to marry for love
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When Muslims talk about “family values”, *this* is what they mean. Where wanting to marry for love is “disobedience” deserving of death, and murdering you own sisters is perfectly Islamic.
God, I hate Islam.
Roy Mears says
There is no honor in killing anyone other than in self defence, let alone a family member. I wish we would stop calling it honor killings, it is murder plain and simple and should be punished by capital punishment. If they know they will be killed for killing I think it may slow it down.
bernie says
On a somewhat brighter note, there does appear to be growing public outrage in Saudi Arabia against a man who raped and murdered his own 5-year-old daughter, and who only received a slap on the wrist for it.
Truth says
Very sad. Wish these girls had guns to shoot back.
Psycho says
“Honour” killings? More like Cultural Suicide. Enough of these crimes & Islam would die out (except for sex-slaves captured by their “Right hands”!)
When all other life on earth (including human) strives for survival, driven by the “God” of DNA (the “Selfish Gene” as Richard Dawkins called it decades ago) only Islam does the “collective lemming” & shows more love for death than for life. If one views life itself as the most sacred state, then Islam is the most profane of all cultures. How can anything said against it constitute blasphemy?