Islamic law forbids Muslim women to marry non-Muslim men, although it allows Muslim men to marry non-Muslim women. The idea is that the Muslim community is always expanding, while the non-Muslim community is always in decline.
Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar, 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 the victim was the murderer’s daughter, 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 law gives to honor killing is acknowledged and confronted, more women will suffer.
“Girl, 17, found with bullet to head,” Newsday Trinidad and Tobago, January 28, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A 17-YEAR-OLD girl was found with her hands bound behind her back and a single bullet wound to the back of the head in bushes near her home at Calvary Trace, Arima shortly after 11 am yesterday.
The victim was identified as Celine Thomas. Her boyfriend Carlyle Hamilton, 33, was hours earlier shot and critically wounded.
According to reports, Hamilton was at home at 9.30 pm on Thursday when he was attacked by gunmen as he turned and ran out of the house, gunshots were fired and Hamilton was struck several times. He sought assistance from neighbours and was taken to hospital where he was treated and warded in stable condition.
At 11 am yesterday, residents of Calvary Trace found Thomas’ body with her hands bound and a bullet wound to the back of her head. Officers of the Arima police as well as homicide officers were called to the scene and the body ordered removed to the Forensic Science Centre….
Thomas attended classes every Thursday at Al-Jabbal Mosque, Branch Road in Calvary. She left home just after 4 pm and she usually got home by about 7 pm, her mother, Cindy Cipriani said. Cipriani said her daughter attended Servol in Sangre Grande and was studying to be a nurse. She just had three more months to go before graduation.
The woman said when she awoke at 5.30 am yesterday, her daughter was not home. “She has a friend who had a baby and I thought when she did not come home she had stopped by this friend. My daughter never stayed out, she never partied, never drank or smoked and was a staunch Muslim,” Cipriani said.
“My daughter was a straight Muslim, she did not go anywhere.
She was killed because she was seen with Kali (Hamilton),” Cipriani said adding that Thomas – contrary to what was being said – was just friends with Hamilton as he was seeing someone….

Angemon says
I wonder if Linda Sarsour will wage a march in memory of Celine Thomas and in protest against the culture that got her killed… Nah, just kidding – LS is a staunch defender of sharia law so she won’t do such a thing.
Pigs be upon Him says
100,000 women protesting, yeah right
Walter Sieruk says
This brutal ,viscous a,demonic Islamic custom the Muslims call “honor killing” is inappropriately has the word “honor ” in its term. For there is nothing ,at all, “honorable ” in that cruel malicious murderous Islamic tradition. This action of so called “honor killing ” is so extremely wicked those Muslim who engage in it and the other Muslims who condone this malice-filled heinous ,hideous evil are the heartless fruits of this death cult which is Islam. As Jesus taught “By their fruits you will know them .” Matthew 7:20. [[N.K.J.V.]
This Islamic mindset that is so insidiously awful that “honor Killing ” is ,of all the odd and outrageous things , is actually is seen, in the Muslim worldview of things ,as something that is “good” and in in a Muslim father letting is daughter live as something “evil” How wickedly delusional is the influence of Islam. Nevertheless, .such deluded and wicked type thinking has had been written about in the Bible. Which teaches “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil…” Isaiah 8:20.
Walter Sieruk says
First, all people with a basic understanding of the clear difference between right and wrong will acknowledge that this vicious and deadly Islamic tradition what is called “honor killing ” is not only wrong but evil heinously murderous . Second, there are some decent but naive Westerners who just discovering about this brutal malice-filled homicidal Islamic custom called “honor killing ” will be horrified and shocked at his monstrous Islamic evil and then ask “Just how can a Muslim father murder his daughter or a Muslim brother murder is sister and do it also with religious motive ?” The answer to that question is found in the Bible. For the Bible teaches that there are some men who are extremely heartless,unfeeling, cruel, callous and dangerous because they have had ” their conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2. [N.K.J.V.] The :”hot iron ” in this case is Islam.
MALLIKARJUNA SHARMA says
So called ‘honor’ killings are to be seriously condemned by all progressive and democratic persons, irrespective of their religious affiliations. May be such gory incidents happen more in Muslim communities, and as explained in the columns of this website some sermons may be there saying killing of offspring is not a sin, etc., but unfortunately such things do happen in other religious communities also – may be to a very lesser extent. I profoundly condole the death of that woman who died just for being friendly with other religious person – not even in sexual relationship, it seems. Let the culprits be caught and strictly punished, according to the law of the land and not condoned per sharia.
Shmooviyet says
A “very lesser extent”, indeed.
An event such as this killing done in, say, a Christian community, won’t be condoned but will be condemned by that community. The killer won’t find excuses in the holy book. Non-sharia justice will prosecute the savage act– not judge the victim’s behavior and proceed accordingly.
Oliver says
I also think that the word “Honor” should not be used.
But, what kind of friendship did a 17 year old girl have with a 33 year old guy?
(I AM NOT SAYING THAT HAVING THAT RELATIONSHIP/FRIENDSHIP- BE IT SEXUAL OR NOT, IS A CAUSE OR EXCUSE TO KILL HER).
Unless he was tutoring her in an academic subject, or she tutoring him, or something similar, or babysitting or tutoring a relative of his, to me-it does not make sense.
But the killing is still wrong.
Eric Jones says
Trinidad needs to shut this kind of behavior down. Sharia should not be allowed in Trinidad in any way shape or form. If they do not they will seriously regret it.
Eric
Cicero says
Unfortunately since the Muslimeen rebellion in 1990 when the Governemnt and the seat of government was attacked and several Trinidad citizens killed in the attempt ,nothing has been done to call those muslims responsible to account.
The leader of the Trinidad revolt AbuBakr ( an Afro – Trini Convert who had studied in Libya) is allowed to continue to move about society freely, preach and grow his Islamic Army in Trinidad.
The centre of the island of Trinidad. Is riven with deadly gang wars between Muslim and non- Muslim gangs. The powers that be do nothing,see nothing and say nothing
Trish says
Honestly who gives a shit anymore let them kill themselves, less work for us. It’s tiering trying to reason with this leftist scum.
stevo-k says
if you are a woman and have a daughter and truly love and care for her, please do not become muslim or marry a muslim man.
Troybeam says
Razzle Dazzle this is what Muslim men do to attract young women and girls to date. What these young women do not understand is the elements of how Islam works, the first clue to dating a Muslim is going into the lions den: non- Muslim women are never allowed to be with Muslim women , they must stay with the men segregated until they become a Muslim than its hard earned to be with the women because you were not born Muslim.
Once the razzle dazzle wears off and if your so stupid as to marry than you’ll find a life you’ll hate even after you leave Islam by divorce.
Cicero says
Many Non Muslim Indian women in the U.K. Who got “dazzled” and married their Muslim suitor subsequently declare that they very much regretted their actions. The Muslim man after marrying a non Muslim woman moves swiftly to impregnate her. They then insist the child is brought up as a Muslim . The poor woman is trapped. No mother can abandon her babies ( not most anyway)
Lee Greb says
What is Huma Abedin’s status as she married a non-Muslim?
Cicero says
Who knows. Probably the husban secretly converted or Abedin bent the Islamic rules in this instance in order to secure a triumph for Islam.. anything non-is
A mic in act or behaviour is condoned in Islam if it advances the cause of Islamic Jihad in the end