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.
“Texas woman accused of stalking her sister before ‘honor killing’ of brother-in-law,” by Doyle Murphy, New York Daily News, May 5, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A Texas woman stalked her sister for months and delivered a chilling warning to her brother-in-law shortly before his murder, authorities said.
“I cannot wait until my dad puts a bullet between your eyes,” Nadia Irsan allegedly told her sister’s husband.
The 30-year-old appeared in court Tuesday to face charges she was part of a twisted family campaign of hate that resulted in a pair of “honor killings” in 2012, KHOU reported.
Irsan’s hardline Muslim father was furious when her sister, Nesreen Irsan, married a Christian man without his approval, authorities said.
The irate dad, 57-year-old Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan, first gunned down his daughter’s friend, Iranian activist Galareh Bagherzadeh, who he believed led her astray from her fundamentalist upbringing, according to prosecutors.
The father threatened his daughter after Bagherzadeh’s January 2012 death.
“I killed that b—h, and you’re next,” Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan is accused of saying, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Then he came for her husband, Coty Beavers, shooting him to death in November 2012 in the couple’s home, authorities said.
The dad was charged with murder in the dual homicides. His wife and 21-year-old son also face charges in the case.
Nadia Irsan hasn’t been charged with murder in either of the deaths, but that could change, authorities said.
She’s accused of tailing her sister, even slipping a GPS device onto the estranged sibling’s car in the lead-up to Beaver’s killing, according to prosecutors.
Investigators later discovered the GPS buried in the Irsan’s yard.
Richie says
Islam is disgusting
t. says
What would mainstream media, many western governments and so-called institutions of “higher education” say about such case: “This has nothing, nothing to do with Islam”!
Nauseating and sickening, indeed.
Shane says
Christians have to stop being so passive when it comes to Muslim fanatics. It does no good to turn the other cheek when a Muslim wants to cut your head off. Christians should be fully armed and know how to use their weapons to defend themselves, their families, and their country from Islamic jihad. Onward Christian Soldiers marching as to war.
Marco says
The problem is a Christian could kill a muslim who was trying to cut his head off and be arrested and sentenced! The left, who is in control, despises Christians.
mortimer says
What you find ‘disgusting’ is SHARIA LAW which authorizes EVERY SINGLE MUSLIM to be a VIGILANTE MURDERER OF BLASPHEMERS AND APOSTATES.
Yup. Every single Muslim is a deputized killer…deputized by Sharia. Al Azhar University agrees any Muslim may MURDER (yes, MURDER) a blasphemer.
Is Islam a Death Cult that gives its followers ample excuses to TAKE THE LAW INTO THEIR OWN HANDS?
Lia Wissing says
Sick. And sickening to the rest of us. And making sick its own.
Ashley says
Charming story, eh?
somehistory says
They worship a beast. They worship satan by worshipping the wild beast of his making. It is no wonder that they act in such a beastly manner…behaving as the false god they worship behaves. No natural affection for family members, uncaring, unfeeling, and lusting for blood.
Manuel Paleologus says
You just described quite well what this demonic Islam is.
Thank you and God bless you.
somehistory says
Thank you, and may God bless you also.
Jay Airahs says
A Muslim’s perfect dream of a romantic candlelight dinner is devising schemes with Allah to punish alleged sinners.
Jay Airahs says
Carpet Kissers
Put your faces to the ground to worship me well
said the serpent of Medina that crawled out of hell.
Do not look up to the heavens, Satan is down.
Sharia is the path to paradise and I am his clown.
Muhammad is this beast that crawls beneath your feet.
Don’t you see the graveyard between Islam and peace?
And still,
you lift washed hands high; like you have nothing to hide.
Look again at open palms; check for evidence inside.
Peggy says
I wonder what would happen if parents of the Christian partner decided ot punish their son or daughter for marrying a Muslim. There would be protests in the street from Muslims and Christians alike.
I guess this guy should have converted and then all would be fine.
mortimer says
“this guy should have converted and then all would be fine”
Not necessarily. The parent has a right to murder his children and grandchildren for the sake of honor or because the groom wasn’t ‘ISLAMIC ENOUGH’.
Sharia gives the patriarchs the right to take the law into their own hands in the matter of their children and grandchildren.
Sharia allows practically EVERYTHING the patriarch wants, from ‘temporary marriage’ to honor killings, to killing non-Muslims who piss him off.
Sharia law is extremely devious, inconsistent and amoral.
Mo says
Think of how evil this ideology is. It turns even the most basic of family relationships into something ugly and monstrous. We all have had family squabbles. Many people have had difficult, even abusive family situations. But what sorts of people think quite this way?
Think of an entire culture full of families like this one. Frightening, isn’t it? What hope is there for a culture like that?
Matthieu Baudin says
Another example of how corrosive Islam and other Unchecked Ideologies can be towards the natural family bonds of mutual care and allegiance.
duh_swami says
Islam is unique in that because of sharia, any Mahoundian of any stature and rank, can excommunicate another Mahoundian, with charges of blasphemy or apostasy, or just not doing it right.
Once you lay the curse of taqfir on them, they don’t deserve to live, and can be killed, or abused in some other way. This is what happens in an ‘honor’ killing. The victim is doing something in violation. It becomes the families duty to ‘fix’ the problem, or be shamed by the brothers down at the mosque. Sharia is the enabler…
Jon says
Mahound
the only name that pedophile should be known as
Nutjob says
These people make me sick, and so do the laws surrounding honor killings, what a twisted world people like this come from. The leftists I bet will say this has nothing to do with Islam, of course it hasn’t, it’s just bad guys who can’t tolerate intermingling with any other faith, is that taught in Islamic texts? I think it is.
Mark says
https://youtu.be/o_qYcJ-GSZc
Angemon says
Can’t wait to hear what the people who railed against Pamela Geller have to say on this… I bet it goes something like “blah, blah, radicalism, blah, blah, extremist, blah, blah, nothing to do with islam, blah, blah, the teleprompter stopped working, blah, blah, can I cash my check now?”
Linda Rivera says
In Christian and Jewish families a son or daughter may make life choices the family don’t believe in or approve of. The choice does not stop the parents and family giving unconditional love to their son or daughter.
The story of the prodigal son in the Bible is the beautiful story of the prodigal son who chose a destructive lifestyle. The son later repented. The father forgave him and held a huge celebration for his son. The story illustrates God’s mercy, kindness, forgiveness and great love for us. May God’s Great and Wonderful Name be praised for all eternity.
abad says
Islamic fambly values hard at work. They should be deported out of this country forever.
Alex says
Interesting facts about Syria and Iraq in this article. I wonder what the penalty there would be for someone to publicly criticize Assad? Sheesh.
rcourtemanche says
Once again and agreed by almost 50% of Muslims, Islam isn’t compatible with Western society.