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.
“Muslim father strangled daughter, 19, to death in ‘honour killing’ after she was caught stealing condoms for sex with her forbidden boyfriend in Germany,” by Allan Hall, MailOnline, September 28, 2015:
A Muslim man has confessed to strangling his 19-year-old daughter to death with his bare hands after learning from police she had been caught shoplifting condoms to have sex with her forbidden boyfriend.
Asadullah Khan and his wife Shazia then dressed dead daughter Lareeb, a dental technician, in her clothes.
They then wheeled her in a wheelchair from their high-rise apartment to the family car, drove to a secluded embankment in their home city of Darmstadt in Germany, and tipped the corpse down it.
Khan, 51, with tears streaming down his face, admitted the killing because in his eyes she had brought ‘dishonour’ on the family with her love for a boy he didn’t approve of. He and his wife were wed in an arranged marriage and he wanted the same for her.
Khan and his wife, originally from Pakistan, are on trial for murder at the State Court in Darmstadt. Shazia, 41, described how she was a downtrodden woman, totally in the thrall of her husband, and unable to save her daughter.
The court heard how the parents sent Lareeb’s sister Nida, 14, to a relative on the evening of the murder in January this year.
Nida gave evidence against both her parents, saying her mother was as strict as their father, often striking both of them.
The mother held out her arms to Nida when she appeared in court on Friday but Nida refused to acknowledge her.
Nida said: ‘My Mama was not suppressed, she could do what she wanted. She used to hit me with a stick.
‘We were never allowed to talk about her boyfriend. My father used to say my sister should be forcibly married in Pakistan.’…
Shazia said that on the night of the murder Lareeb had quarelled again with her father and hit him. He later crept into her room as she slept, knelt astride her and strangled her….
‘Lareeb stayed away from the home for several nights in a row and stopped wearing the headscarf. One day we received a letter from the police saying she had been caught trying to steal condoms.
‘At this point it became clear that there was sexual contact. When I showed the letter to my husband he snapped.’
Killer Asadullah, who speaks no German, said he ‘loved’ his daughter.

Ortho says
Love is punishable in islam then. What a horrible system.
Jay Boo says
In countries where Muslims are not the majority they simply deny this is part of Islam in and will ignore our criticism.
Otherwise, they proudly embrace the custom and openly oppose the criticism against honor killing.
sahani says
How nation of local converts after adopting ISlam arab culture has become enemy of own freedom, killing own children just because arab book tell them . Looks like Arab book costing them just a $ 1 is great thereat to many converts for their own lives.
gravenimage says
These weren’t local converts–these were Muslims who have wormed their way into the civilized West. Note that the murderer speaks no German–this is common with supremacist Muslims.
Don Foss says
I lived two years in Lahore, Pakistan, and these incidents were reported in a particular section of the English newspaper that dealt with female issues. Most of them were acid in the face of girls who rejected an advance or refused a proposal, or gang rapes meant to teach girls to stay put and out of contact with strange men, or child marriages, but too many were honor killings. BTW, the editor of that paper (Dawn) was later arrested and prosected for some trumped up charge that everyone knew was just an intimidation tactic to make the paper quit reporting these incidents.
Steffen Larsen says
I had a look at tody’s epaper Dawn, and immediately two things caught my eye:
Half a page from the Hungarian Government advising people against illegal entry in the strongest terms.
And an honor killing.
gravenimage says
Thanks for the information, Don and Steffen–none of this surprises.
Jaladhi says
It’s the barbarian custom of Islam and Muslims that finds honor in killing and murdering their own flesh and blood! They are unfit to live among human beings!!
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
That’s a great statement Jaladhi. That’s it exactly, isn’t it-muslims cannot live among the civilized.
Walter Sieruk says
This type of vicious,cruel and murderous action that is called “honor killing” will continue to happen in Germany and other countries of Europe and well and in America because of so much Muslim immigration into Western countries As Brigitte Gabriel explained in her book THEY MUST BE STOPPED .In which she informs her readers that “Honor killing s have also come to the West thanks to the rise of Islamic immigration.” She further inform her reader about the this malicious ,, and malicious -filled Islamic tradition is preformed in many extremely harsh and brutal ways For her book also exposes that “honor killings are executed by slitting the victims throat ,hatching them, stabbing, burning them to death ,decapitations, bullets to the head and chest or any other means imaginable.” The about article show one of the other”means imaginable.” As in this case of strangulation. How hideous ! How heinous ! how wicked ! Indeed, they must be stopped !
t says
What could be more barbaric and contrary to nature than a parent killing his own child. WIth the mass immigration into Germany, the German government will need to launch an urgent prison building program, or will they just accept sharia?
Jacksonl03 says
And . . . What kinda boy friend has his girl friend steal rubbers? Phah!
Ashley says
She shoplifted birth control, not a Gucci handbag.
aally says
You seem to agree that it warrants death??? What the he’ll is wrong with you??? Girls who experiment and hurt themselves, as hard as it is for us to see, learn the kinds of lessons that makes them understanding, strong people capable of teL living. Unlike her poor mother. You and your sick degraded attitude lose. Phah!
miriamrove says
what muslim country are you from?Pahl
gravenimage says
We don’t know that her boyfriend asked her to swipe condoms. Certainly, as a dental tech, she could easily afford to buy them. My guess is that she didn’t want to risk being seen purchasing such “incriminating” items lest if get back to dear old dad.
Charli Main says
Just about every pub, club and toilet in Britain has condom dispensing machines, so its not necessary to risk being seen purchasing them from shops. Perhaps, these condom purchasing facilities are not available in Germany.
Charli Main says
should read “public toilet”.
ECAW says
Ah yes, I was harking back to my own youth….”A packet of three,er, um, toothbrushes please”.
Mirren10 says
A few interesting points, here.
One, this poor little muslima was caught **shoplifting condoms**. ?? She’s a bloody **dental technician**; and we’re supposed to believe she didn’t have the money to pay for them, legitimately ? Yet another example, methinks, of mohammedans flouting kufr law.
”They then wheeled her in a wheelchair from their high-rise apartment to the family car, … ”
Uh-huh. These creatures do what they do because they’re poor, ignorant, and victims of us wicked and evil exploiters of their third world naivety and innocence. Har de har har.
”Khan, 51, with tears streaming down his face, admitted the killing because in his eyes she had brought ‘dishonour’ on the family with her love for a boy he didn’t approve of. He and his wife were wed in an arranged marriage and he wanted the same for her.”
This is so utterly disgusting and revolting. This evil, cretinous *pig*, murders his daughter, and weeps copious hypocritical tears. And no doubt there will be many moronic arseholes who will weep in unison. It’s all our fault, you see. It’s a ‘tragic example of the clash between two cultures’. Excuse me while I vomit.
”Khan and his wife, originally from Pakistan, are on trial for murder at the State Court in Darmstadt. Shazia, 41, described how she was a downtrodden woman, totally in the thrall of her husband, and unable to save her daughter”
More and more steaming and revolting bullshit. I will bet good money mummy dearest was in it up to her neck, and was probably cheering hubby on. These sickening attempts to exculpate one family member or another are nauseating.
”Nida gave evidence against both her parents, saying her mother was as strict as their father, often striking both of them.” No kidding.
”The mother held out her arms to Nida when she appeared in court on Friday but Nida refused to acknowledge her.”
Good for Nida. Let’s hope she’ll eventually acknowledge it’s her foul religion that’s to blame, for all of it.
” Nida said: ‘My Mama was not suppressed, she could do what she wanted. She used to hit me with a stick.”
I have heard so many examples of this. It really belies the sentimental crap we’re so often asked to swallow, that muslim women are victims. No, most of the time they’re fully complicit, and often the instigators.
”Lareeb stayed away from the home for several nights in a row and stopped wearing the headscarf. One day we received a letter from the police saying she had been caught trying to steal condoms.”
So, if she was away from home, how did they know she wasn’t wearing the slave rag ? They were spying on her ?
And yet again, I ask, why did this ‘dental technician’, who must have been earning a good salary, have to resort to *stealing* condoms ?
What a load of bullshit.
ECAW says
Hi Mirren 10 – I must admit that my first thought was that the daughter stole the condoms for fear of it getting back to the family if the shopkeeper knew. Of course, if that was the case I suppose she could just have gone further afield to find a non-Muslim chemist.
Westman says
Steaming indeed, Mirren.
Imagine if the West thought of women as commodities. We have chosen to marry for love and it has made all the difference between the primitive Muslim lack of respect and tender love in families and a world of emotionally supported progress that made all our lives longer and more enjoyable.
In Christianity and the West, “Man is that he might have Joy”.
In Islam, Men are that, “We would be single-minded slaves of Allah.”(37:169)(9:111)
Perhaps the male Muslim refugee response to “Man is that he might have Joy” would be, “Do you know where I can locate Joy?”
ECAW says
“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.”
I think Mr Spencer went a bit off track here. The victim was the murderer’s daughter unless I’ve misunderstood.
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Interesting article here by Phyllis Chesler showing that, despite appearing to be the downtrodden innocent, the mothers are often just as involved as the fathers, as in this case:
http://www.meforum.org/5477/when-women-commit-honor-killings
GFRF says
Why isn’t the boy or man who is going to use those condoms killed too? Disgusting hypocrites
Oliver says
I thought that the Muslim punishment for stealing is the fingers or hand chopped off. Not killing.
And, like others- couldn’t she afford to buy the condoms? If she lived in a Muslim neighborhood- what about where she worked? A great deal sounds strange, to me.
gravenimage says
Oliver, she was killed for having pre-marital sex with her boy friend, and the condoms were taken as proof of this. She was not killed for stealing–certainly not for robbing Infidels, if that was the case. In this instance, the theft was incidental. The victim likely stole the condoms in the vain hope that daddy dearest would not find out.
Peter Buckley says
One good thing about this. The youngest daughter will now almost certainly grow up an ex-muslim.
GeorgeB says
Honor killing should be a capital crime punishable by death through castration by way of rusty knife!
Westman says
These “honor” murderers created exactly the opposite of their stupid idea of “honor”. Now 300 million people are ashamed of them. Even CAIR will do the “that’s not Islam dance” and condemn them. They now have their dishonor to overflowing. Why do we want any more of these primitives?
Such tender love..sex slaves..wife can’t refuse sex even if, ” riding on a camel saddle”..can beat the wife into submission for resistance to any of husband’s demands..is worth less than a male Muslim in blood money..needs two women to be equal to a man’s testimony..must always be under the control of some Muslim male. This IS institutionalized violence against women.
That is sufficient in itself to make Obama’s words about no violence in “moderate” Islam a bold-faced lie or place him with inexcusable ignorance as a minimum. The future must not belong to tbose who pander to the “prophet” of Islam.
Where the hell are the feminists? Got theirs and don’t care anymore?
Western Canadian says
You might have heard the arab muslim, or just the muslim culture is a ‘pride/honour’ based culture. Which is utter nonsense. Japan has a ‘pride/honour’ based culture, but so called honour killings are nonexistent, as are jihad and other crimes commonly committed by muslims.
islam has no honour, there is no honour or understanding of it in islam. It is a false pride, dishonour culture. And it is vile and utterly criminal.
Westman says
Right you are, Western Canadian. Islam appears to be a demerit system, too many demerits and you’re literally dead. No true honor system kills you if you leave.
I have a good Chinese-American friend and he made this remark about this killing, today: “We have an expectation of honorable conduct but we don’t kill people over it”.
PRCS says
At 19 she’s likely considered an adult in Germany.
So why did the family receive a letter from the police concerning the attempted shoplifting?
Why would the police send such a letter the family, and what would the subject have been?
Is that standard procedure, or did a Muslim friend of the family send it?
Was it really addressed to the family or did they intercept and read her mail?
gravenimage says
PRCS–you are right. The legal age of majority in Germany is 18, I don’t know the details–but my guess is that the letter was sent to the family home since this was Lareeb Khan’s legal address, and her oppressive family just read her mail. Although Lareeb had been away for several days, she hadn’t formally left home yet.
How foolish *is this*? We hear about this all the time, where Muslimahs threatened with “Honor Killing” return home, either to assurances that “all is forgiven”, or just out of irrational hope. She should have stayed away.
PRCS says
Agreed.
She should have stayed away from home after her police involvement–just to be safe.
Still, I’m not sure how daddy–who doesn’t speak German (wonder how long the family has lived there)–deciphered the letter.
Maybe Mom?
Not the younger daughter.
The last traffic ticket I received (2007–forgot my driver license at home) was issued right on the spot–with the timeframe to make a court appearance–on it; never receiving a letter from the PD about it. Just went to court and paid the $10.
Would like to know more about how/why the German PD sent a letter about this and to whom.
As it was apparently an attempted shoplifting incident, I wonder what the store/police procedure there is.
Ticket? Arrest? Arrest and release? As another poster noted–she wasn’t trying to lift a Gucci handbag.
I hope the German court system doesn’t buckle to political correctness on this concerning any and all complicit.
gravenimage says
Yeah–not sure of the specifics in Germany, PRCS. One of my only brushes with the law was way back in the late ’70s, when my boyfriend “John” was arrested. We were in our late teens–about the age of the girl in this story–and we had an old ‘beater’ car that repeatedly failed to pass its smog check, and it would have really strapped us financially to get the work done that the car needed. John got a couple of tickets, and just paid them–but eventually the failure to get our car smogged–much to our shock–turned into a warrant, although we were never notified about this. John was arrested at a traffic stop, taken down and booked (on a Saturday night in Berkeley, no less!), and immediately released. He received a court date–and yes, this was by mail.
Of course, we got the work done on the car right away, and then got it smogged. When John appeared in court the judge was incredulous that he had actually been arrested for this, and dismissed the charge when we presented the smog certificate.
Needless to say, there was no one at home to receive this letter with homicidal intent. Just like everywhere else in the civilized world, swiping condoms is considered a petty crime–not of no import, of course, but hardly the sort of thing Infidels murder over.
Angemon says
I hope Germans enjoy paying this particular brand of “multiculturalism” – there’s neraly 800,000 of his coreligionists coming their way…
Paul says
“Yeah, but which islam do you mean? There are so many schools or thought!”
A popular diversionary tactic. I’m not sure. It could be like in Saudi-Arabia
where women are executed for “witchcraft”. It could be like Pakistan’s form,
the epicentre of ‘honour’ killings in the world. It could be like Iran’s or
Afghanistan’s form of islam where ‘disobedient’ women have acid thrown
in their faces, or perhaps ‘moderate’ Turkey where domestic violence
has sky rocketed since the lovely Erdogan come to power. So many
‘diverse’ schools of thought indeed.
gravenimage says
Germany: Muslim strangles daughter to death in honor killing after she was caught stealing condoms
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Muslim “Honor Killing” is rife in Germany, Way back In 2005 Der Spiegel reported: “In the past four months, six Muslim women living in Berlin have been killed by family members”. And this is just in one German city…
And this isn’t always for engaging in pre-marital sex–girls have been murdered for resisting forced marriages, as well.
And with hordes of Muslim “refugees” flooding into Germany right now, expect even more of these sickening stories.
More:
A Muslim man has confessed to strangling his 19-year-old daughter to death with his bare hands after learning from police she had been caught shoplifting condoms to have sex with her forbidden boyfriend.
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Lareeb Khan worked as a dental technician–a job that pays well enough that she certainly could buy condoms. No doubt the only reason she stole them was in the vain hope that this would make it less likely that her family would find out.
More:
Asadullah Khan and his wife Shazia then dressed dead daughter Lareeb, a dental technician, in her clothes.
They then wheeled her in a wheelchair from their high-rise apartment to the family car, drove to a secluded embankment in their home city of Darmstadt in Germany, and tipped the corpse down it.
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How cold-blooded *is this*? We see this in “Honor Killings” all the time. And note that this was a family affair–the girl’s mother was fully involved in the cover-up. This is enormously common in Islam, where killing in the name of “honor” is a matter for the whole family, or sometimes the whole community.
More:
Khan, 51, with tears streaming down his face, admitted the killing because in his eyes she had brought ‘dishonour’ on the family with her love for a boy he didn’t approve of. He and his wife were wed in an arranged marriage and he wanted the same for her.
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*Ugh*. In other words, this girl was murdered for daring to fall in love–and dear old dad wanted to force her into a loveless marriage–but one where the couple could kill together…
More:
Khan and his wife, originally from Pakistan, are on trial for murder at the State Court in Darmstadt. Shazia, 41, described how she was a downtrodden woman, totally in the thrall of her husband, and unable to save her daughter.
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Yeah–mommy dearest is willing to play on Western concerns over abused Muslimahs. But she was happy violently enforcing brutal Islamic norms before the Kuffar caught her.
More:
The court heard how the parents sent Lareeb’s sister Nida, 14, to a relative on the evening of the murder in January this year.
Nida gave evidence against both her parents, saying her mother was as strict as their father, often striking both of them.
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Good for Nida–she easily could have been cowed by the murder of her sister–or worse, have agreed with the killing. I hope she leaves Islam altogether.
More:
The mother held out her arms to Nida when she appeared in court on Friday but Nida refused to acknowledge her.
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Clearly, Nida understands this is just theatrics on her mother’s part. I’m sure momma would have dumped Nida’s body just as she did her sister Lareeb’s.
More:
Nida said: ‘My Mama was not suppressed, she could do what she wanted. She used to hit me with a stick.
‘We were never allowed to talk about her boyfriend. My father used to say my sister should be forcibly married in Pakistan.’…
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Probably to a cousin, who would then be brought over to Germany and start the vicious cycle all over again. I’m sure this is what was being planned for Nida, as well.
More:
Shazia said that on the night of the murder Lareeb had quarelled again with her father and hit him. He later crept into her room as she slept, knelt astride her and strangled her….
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Yeah–the claim that Lareeb hit her father is not impossible–but given that the girls were being beaten by their parents and that she was so terrified that she stole condoms rather than paying for them, her striking her father seems *damned* implausible. More likely this is just an attempt to imply that she deserved to be murdered, since she was supposedly violent first.
More:
‘Lareeb stayed away from the home for several nights in a row and stopped wearing the headscarf. One day we received a letter from the police saying she had been caught trying to steal condoms.
‘At this point it became clear that there was sexual contact. When I showed the letter to my husband he snapped.’
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That Lareeb had stopped wearing the headscarf is an extremely important point, Girls have been “Honor Killed” just for rejecting Hijab–including Toronto teen Aqsa Parvez, whose father also strangled her to death.
And how likely is it that Shazia failed to realize that Asadullah would react violently? Not very…
More:
Killer Asadullah, who speaks no German, said he ‘loved’ his daughter.
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How common *is this*? His Asadullah Khan had been in Germany long enough that his daughter had been able to train as a dental technician, yet he speaks no German.
Certainly, he shares none of the civilized values of the nation where he is now squatting.
Joseph says
Graven,
I love how you analyze the articles and comment on sections that I would normally gloss over.
Wouldn’t it be great if Anni Cyrus (http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/09/the-unknown-my-islamic-court-date-and-no-way-out) cold talk to little Nida and save her from the insanity that is Islam.
I know for who and what I will be praying for tonight.
Wellington says
Yet another useless death for the no good reason which is Islam.
Yes, Islam is again to blame. And those trying to assign this death to being a cultural phenomenon as a way of exculpating Islam are, in effect, enablers themselves. Yes, every damn last one of them.
Another unnecessary death. Courtesy of Islam. Such deaths by now since Islam began its tyrannical reign over human beings some 1400 years ago number in the hundreds of millions. Or perhaps even more, that is to say a billion plus.
Yes, this is Islam’s true legacy. Doubt it and, quite frankly, I can have nothing but contempt for such a person since excusing evil, and Islam is most definitely evil, is itself evil.
God, how I despise Islam. This religion sickens me. it fill me with contempt and loathing for all those who continue to defend it, only the degree of such defense being a factor.
Lasslax says
This will just carry on, since western media and politicians refuse even to MENTION the root of the problem: ISLAM.
Just today there was an article in Swedens largest daily newpaper (Dagens Nyheter) about honor killings.
The word of “islam” is not presented at all, “forigner” once – in a denial. But “mans violence against women” several times in different forms.
As if the problem was GLOBAL, the perpetrators could be anyone.
As far as I know (I don´t have the source at hand) 90% of all honor killings are done by muslims – the whole world counted.
With media like the Swedish and as I heard the Brittish and German as well – it will just go on and on again…
Cameron says
If the wife was in the thrall of her husband then he should also be charged with keeping slaves. Thrall literally means slave.
How are we as a civilisation able to prevent honour killings? – I’m not sure. My first reaction would be that anyone who murders a family member because they shamed the murderer… well the murderer should be forcibly castrated, denied access to the rest of the family for the rest of his life, assets and finances siezed and transferred to the rest of the family so long as they weren’t complicit in the murder. Publically shamed as being a murderer for “honour” in the style of Game of Thrones for all to see… and then when the point is made on how shameful honour murder is for the whole of society (not just sects of Muslims) the murderer should be sent to maximum security prison for hard labour and with no possibility of parole.
abad says
Well, Germany is going to be seeing a LOT more honor killings now that it has made the grave mistake of allowing all those Muslim immigrants in.
StarWish246 says
Maybe, for those few days when she didn’t come home, she was in jail for the shoplifting?
gravenimage says
I really doubt anyone would wind up in jail for several days in Germany for swiping a pack or two of condoms. My guess is that Larreb was scared to go home–if so, she was right, and should never have returned.
gravenimage says
“Lareeb”.
Tony says
No one mentioned the fact that this family was Ahmadiyya. Their motto ‘love for all, hatred for none’. Yeah right.
gravenimage says
Tony, I hadn’t known that. You are quite right, though:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/09/29/honour-killing-german-muslim-strangles-daughter-shoplifted-condoms/
The boyfriend was also Ahmadi.
What most people don’t realize is that while the Ahmadiyya *do* reject violent Jihad, they eagerly embrace brutal Shari’ah law–including “Honor Killings”.
Angemon says
A small correction, GI – they reject offensive jihad as a means to spread islam and violent jihad as long as they’re free to practice their religion, but there’s nothing in their teaching that prevents them from picking up arms and waging warfare against a government that “persecutes” them.
Overall, you’re correct – their endgame is the same as any other islamic sect – spreading sharia all over the world, with stonings, chopping of limbs, beheadings, etc. That they prefer to go about it in a peaceful fashion is of no consolation to me, and I don’t see why they should be praised for not wanting to kill me over my religion (or lack thereof) – I, like billions of people in the planet, don’t want to kill others over their religion, and I don’t see anyone praising me over it.
ESSTEE says
Things are going to get ugly.
mortimer says
HONOR KILLING OF FAMILY MEMBERS AND CHILDREN IN KORAN AND HADITHS:
“The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) used not to kill the children, so thou shouldst not kill them unless you could know what Khadir had known about the child he killed, or you could distinguish between a child who would grow up to he a believer (and a child who would grow up to be a non-believer), so that you killed the (prospective) non-believer and left the (prospective) believer aside.” — Sahih Muslim Book 019, Number 4457
Khadir, or Khidr, figures in sura 18 of the Qur’an. He is traveling with Moses, and: “Then they proceeded until, when they met a young man, he [Khadir] slew him. Moses said: “Hast thou slain an innocent person who had slain none? Truly a foul (unheard of) thing hast thou done!” Khadir replies: “As for the youth, his parents were people of Faith, and we feared that he would grieve them by obstinate rebellion and ingratitude (to Allah and man). So we desired that their Lord would give them in exchange (a son) better in purity (of conduct) and closer in affection….” (18:74, 18:80-81).
kay says
🙁 Here is the textbook. It is new. Have not seen it.
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Honor Killing: A Professional’s Guide to Sexual Relations and Ghayra Violence from the Islamic Sources Paperback – December 18, 2014
by Daniel Akbari (Author), Paul Tetreault (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Honor-Killing-Professionals-Relations-Violence/dp/1496957032/
L. J. Carey on February 24, 2015:
Comprehensive. Sourced. Well researched. Logically arranged. These are a few of the words that come to mind after reading this book.
Every time the news media reports a story of a potential honor crime, groups such as the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) are quick to say such activity has no basis in Islam. No longer will they be able to state such rubbish. Akbari and Tetreault have done a great service to expose this lie.
…I have both taught and written about honor violence as it relates to understanding women’s issues in Islam, a subject about which I am passionate. But until I read this book, my understanding of the connection of such violence to Islam was tenuous at best. No longer. . .
This book is very timely. As Islam spreads its tentacles into lands previously unoccupied by Muslims, it carries with it behaviors and customs that seem foreign to the host culture, including honor violence. As the authors note. . .“Wherever Islam has put its foot, from Norway to Nigeria and from Morocco to Indonesia, the practice of ghayra violence has been implemented.”
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The merit of this very simple public service is dedicated to Lareeb Khan.
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The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth… In a world struggling in violence and dishonesty, the further development of non-violence – not only as a philosophy but as a way of life, as a force on the streets. . .becomes one of the most urgent priorities. – Petra Kelly
Peter Buckley says
Interesting documentary on “Forced Marriage” in my own home city of Manchester.
Although it is claimed this is “cultural” rather than “religious”, no guesses as to which “community” is most affected (The “South Asian” community).
After 7 minutes the muslim guy under interrogation actually admits:
“You can hit your wife, you can hit your sons………”
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/forced-marriage-cops/on-demand?msg_id=DM10439&nl_bid=457733223