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Pakistan: Muslim husband murders wife for visiting her sister without permission

Apr 19, 2015 5:05 pm By Robert Spencer

honor-killing1Muslims 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.

“Husband sets wife on fire in Pakistan ‘honor killing,’” AFP, April 19, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A Pakistani man and his father have been arrested in the country’s latest so-called “honor killing” after they set the son’s wife alight for leaving the house without asking his permission, police said Sunday.

Muhammad Siddique became enraged on learning that his wife, Shabana Bibi, 25, had visited her sister without first asking him if she could go out, her brother Muhammad Azam said.

Siddique and his father then beat Bibi before dousing her with petrol and setting her on fire in Central Pakistan’s Muzaffargarh district on Friday, Azam said.

Bibi had been married to Siddique for three years, during which time she had suffered repeated domestic abuse for the couple’s inability to have children, Azam said.

Suffering burns to 80 percent of her body, Bibi died of her injuries in hospital on Saturday.

“We have arrested the husband and father-in-law of the deceased woman and charged them for murder and terrorism,” district police chief Rai Zameer-ul-Haq told AFP. The charge of “terrorism” is regularly applied in such cases so as to expedite the legal process.

Hundreds of women are murdered by their relatives in Pakistan each year through domestic violence or on the grounds of defending family “honor”.

The Aurat Foundation, a campaign group that works to improve the lives of women in Pakistan’s conservative and patriarchal society, says more than 3,000 women have been killed in such attacks since 2008.

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  1. Jay Airahs says

    Apr 19, 2015 at 5:24 pm

    “Husband sets wife on fire in Pakistan ‘honor killing”

    The feminists are dancing the pig bath religion appeasement two-step and singing,
    “Let’s not be judgmental and respect their religious customs”

    • mortimer says

      Apr 19, 2015 at 7:26 pm

      Judge this:
      STATISTICS & DATA from Honour Based Violence Awareness Network

      HBVA says there are:

      •5000 honour killings internationally per year
      •1000 honour killings occur in India
      •1000 honour killings occur in Pakistan
      •12 honour killings per year in UK

      • jayell says

        Apr 20, 2015 at 1:56 pm

        Why can’t that term ‘Honour Killing’ be banned? It’s a disgusting, obscene oxymoron, and wasn’t in existence in the English language until these repulsive b*stards made themselves known to us.

  2. American says

    Apr 19, 2015 at 6:20 pm

    “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.””

    Destroying Islamic values should be encouraged, not discouraged. There’s nothing more harmful to human life than Islamic values.

    • Vivien Hal says

      Apr 20, 2015 at 6:50 am

      Isn’t killing the mother harming the family? Oh no, In muslim families the word “she” means a piece of dirt to be crapped on. you are so right with your comment.

  3. mortimer says

    Apr 19, 2015 at 7:04 pm

    FEMINISTS! Why don’t they ‘get it’. FEMINISTS are experts at finding misogyny hidden in the most seemingly innocent statements or words, and yet they are UNABLE and WILLFULLY BLIND when it comes to SHARIA LAW!

    FEMINISTS are unable to find any misogyny at all in Sharia law.

    • Western Canadian says

      Apr 19, 2015 at 11:28 pm

      If you were to read the works of the early women’s suffrage leaders, you would find the gap between what they were after, and what the modern so-called feminists are seeking, is beyond staggering. “modern” feminism, like modern education, entertainment, news (?) media, etc., has been hijacked by the hard left…. The only thing that those in each of these corrupted fields seek, is power. For themselves, over the rest of us.

      • EYESOPEN says

        Apr 21, 2015 at 12:27 am

        Bulls-eye Western Canadian!

    • Laura says

      Apr 20, 2015 at 4:32 am

      I guess it’s because they know they would be ‘marked women’ for speaking out against Islamic misogyny and would not have long left to live.

      • elisabetfardio says

        Apr 21, 2015 at 2:02 pm

        how sad and what a coward, the whole thing about having there wife covered up rags has nothing to do with any religion its there sick ass jealous , evil

  4. mortimer says

    Apr 19, 2015 at 7:14 pm

    On 27 May 2014, a pregnant woman was stoned to death by her own family in front of a Pakistani high court on Tuesday for marrying the man she loved.

    Even though the prime minister of Pakistan condemned it, the police, tribal leaders and religious leaders in Pakistan often support the perpetrators and their crimes are barely punished or not at all in some cases.

    • Godwin says

      Apr 20, 2015 at 11:44 am

      Pakistan is another hellhole country where thousands of raped women are locked up in jail because they could not produce 4 male witnesses to prove their innocence under sharia laws.

  5. abad says

    Apr 19, 2015 at 8:31 pm

    What I have to say about Muslim men cannot be posted here

  6. Westman says

    Apr 19, 2015 at 11:01 pm

    Even as an Agnostic, I am aware there is a religion that proclaims that God Is love and the obligation of its members is to love all the people they know. It praises God with art, music, and literature. It allows its members to create just laws as they are needed and think for themselves.

    There is another religion that does not mention the word love in its 5 duties. It says that a man may kill his son or daughter for flimsy cause. It counts a woman as half of a man and the posession of some man. It says that the world is owned by its believers, who are but slaves to its god, and the unbelievers should pay a tax for their lives to continue, or, perish. It says only its god can make law and already has made all law necessary for human peace. Yet, somehow, its believers war over minor differences in belief and make a mockery of peace. This is what submission to this god creates. There are no human rights, only darkness and death.

    Silicon Valley is filled with successful men and women of ME extraction who left this death cult behind. They are shining examples that it is the Ideology of their former homelands that keep those nations from the improvisation and original thought necessary for advancement.

  7. Matthieu Baudin says

    Apr 20, 2015 at 1:37 am

    “…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.’… ”

    Looks like terror is a glue that holds together much of traditional Islamic society, including the family unit.

  8. Cindy McCoy says

    Apr 20, 2015 at 6:01 am

    What a rat bastard!!!!! These people slay me. One day they will give an account to Jesus Christ not the one they think and they are going to be in deep trouble. They will burn in hell fire. I have a hard time feeling sorry for them. I know this is wrong, God forgive me.

  9. Denise says

    Apr 20, 2015 at 7:39 am

    She’s free from the torture and torment at the hands of her barbaric religion. I hope you are pain free now in a much better place. RIP one so young.

  10. Matthieu Baudin says

    Apr 20, 2015 at 9:40 am

    The sickness at the heart of Islam revolves in large part around the Extreme Fatalism emanating from ‘The Will Of Allah’ and the central focus on Dominance and Submission; reflecting the (assumed) ideal relationship between Allah and Man, the ideal relationship between Husband and Wife, Men and Women, Parent and Child, Muslim and Dhimmi. The core values of Islam and Christianity are radically different.

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