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UK: Sharia court hands down sentence approving of honor killing

Jan 27, 2017 9:12 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

It happened right on British soil. This is momentous, but not an aberration. It happened in a British Sharia court in Lancashire. The Plaintiff had been “disrespected” (i.e., dishonored) by a neighbor, so he demanded at the Sharia court that their children marry each other as compensation.  Fast forward a bit, it turns out that the children were not happy with the arrangement; after all, they have begun to be enlightened to some degree by living in the free world. The neighbor reneged on his promise. This constituted even more “humiliation” for the Plaintiff: now his kids had also, in his view, been humiliated. So the Plaintiff wanted further compensation for his embarrassment and that of his children: he demanded that his neighbor’s children be killed, because in his eyes, the children were already married and they were thus committing adultery.

The Sharia court approved. The council of elders of this British Sharia court sanctioned honor killing. British Prime Minister Theresa May thinks that “many Britons ‘benefit greatly’ from Sharia Law.” Most shocking is not the tribal and brutal mentality of these immigrants who have been indiscriminately welcomed in from Sharia states, but the fact that Britain is allowing the practice of Sharia to override its own constitution and principles of human rights. Sharia itself asserts that no other law could stand above it, and British authorities are feeding that mindset.

Human rights abuses are being sanctioned by Sharia courts on British soil, while leftist ideologues display grotesque vulgarity and venom in their “marches” of anti-Trump hate that are supposedly for women’s rights and human rights; but those same voices are silent in the face of real abuses.

Right before Christmas, a Sharia court in the UK ordered a woman to return to her abusive, rapist husband. These hard-to-believe cases are not the exception in Britain; they have become the norm, and are routinely covered up, as you will read in the article below. In fact, you will see that coverup in virtually every article that exposes the gross human rights violations that are committed on Western soil by Muslims: the coverup serves for Westerners not to appear to be racist or “Islamophobic.”

“A sinister British Sharia court and one girl’s tireless hunt for her father’s killer: How a brutal murder in Pakistan uncovered revenge killings in Lancashire,” by Martin Sixsmith, Daily Mail, January 10, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

The Muslim council of elders, or Sharia court, listened intently as the plaintiff outlined his case. He’d been disrespected by a neighbour, he told them, and in such a small Pakistani community, people talk.

As atonement for that disrespect, the neighbour had agreed to the plaintiff’s demand that their children would marry each other. But when the neighbour’s children objected to the idea, he reneged on that promise.

The plaintiff before the makeshift court was therefore demanding retribution.

The price for that broken promise was clear, he argued: his neighbour’s recalcitrant children had dishonoured him as well, and what’s more, they were consorting with white people.

This is not a question of race. It is a question of ideology and belief system.

As they were already promised to his own children, that constituted adultery: they should pay with their lives.

The council of elders deliberated, then issued their judgment.

He did, indeed, have the right to exact the death penalty on his neighbour’s children, the court ruled. It would be merciful if he would negotiate financial compensation in lieu of their death, but he was not obliged to do so.

If you think that sounds positively medieval, you’d be right. But this happened just a few years ago — not in Pakistan, but here in Britain, in a small town in Lancashire.

It was one of the most disturbing discoveries I made while researching my new book.

Over the years, I have probed the murky depths of Kremlin-commissioned assassinations, religious scandals and political cover-ups. But this latest project has been by far the most troubling. It has taken me into a world of murder, corruption and, as I’ve just described, violent summary justice sanctioned by appeals to the code of Sharia law. My book Ayesha’s Gift is the poignant story of a young woman’s quest to discover what has happened to her father, missing on a trip from Britain to his native village in Pakistan.

It is a real-life detective story, driven by Ayesha’s burning need to know why her father died, who might have killed him and who her father really was — the loving parent she had revered all her life or someone with a dangerous secret he had hidden from the world?

Her search for the truth about her father leads Ayesha to question the values on which she has built her life and identity.

It culminates in an encounter with a murderer on Death Row and his shocking claim that a council of religious elders in Britain were prepared to condone the revenge killing of two young people for the ‘crime’ of illicit sex.

It was a story that I felt drawn to on a deeply personal level, and it left me, a hardened journalist, moved and distressed.

My journey began in 2009. My book Philomena, about an Irish woman’s search for the son she was forced to give away for the ‘sin’ of giving birth out of wedlock (and which was turned into a film Philomena, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, nominated for Oscars, Baftas and Golden Globes), had just been published and I found myself approached by a series of people with personal stories they wanted me to write.

Among them was a British Pakistani woman (not Ayesha), who told me her father had died in violent and mysterious circumstances in Pakistan. I took some time to investigate the case and uncovered a rather sordid tale.

The woman’s brother had been in an arranged marriage with a cousin from Pakistan; the family had brought his young bride to Britain, but the marriage fell apart.

So the groom’s father took the couple back to Pakistan on what he said was a holiday, but stole the young wife’s passport and flew back with his son to Britain — leaving the girl stranded and abandoned.

Her side of the family took this as an insult to their honour, so when her father-in-law visited Pakistan a year later, they murdered him.

I discovered the phenomenon of ‘disposable brides’, where British Asian men marry girls from the sub-continent, take their dowry and then cast them aside, is widespread in Pakistan and India.

But I concluded this story wouldn’t work as a book because no one emerged from it with any credit. However, I was hooked on the Pakistani setting and the notions of honour and justice that hold sway there.

It wasn’t until years later when I met Ayesha, through a mutual acquaintance, that I found the perfect story, the one I knew I had to write.

Ayesha Rahman was young, intelligent and attractive. She had a first-class degree from Cambridge and was running her own successful IT company in London, providing computer services to the NHS and government departments.

She had been born in Pakistan, but had come to Britain with her parents at the age of four. In most respects, she was British through and through.

I often said to her that people hearing her on the phone would take her for a product of Cheltenham Ladies’ College rather than a shanty town on the outskirts of Karachi.

The story that Ayesha told me stirred my imagination. She had grown up in a town in Lancashire with loving parents who had encouraged her to do well at school.

Her father, Ibrahim, cherished his young daughter, telling her tall tales of his childhood in rural Pakistan. When he described how, as a boy, he would spend his days fighting tigers and fleeing from wild elephants, she knew he was inventing adventures to impress her and she loved him for it.

The day she was offered a place at Cambridge, he was filled with pride at her success.

Unlike many Muslim men, Ibrahim believed that girls should be accorded the same advantages as boys. But this didn’t go down well with others in the local community; there were murmurings and petty jealousies.

Some, including Ibrahim’s brother, had suffered from racist abuse and they warned him against trying to integrate into what they called ‘white man’s society’.

Grudges and resentments began to form around Ibrahim that would grow over the years and eventually open the way for tragedy…..

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  1. Kay says

    Jan 27, 2017 at 9:47 am

    So . . . when it became known that this group approved an honor (sic) killing, were they all immediately charged with a crime?
    If not, why not?
    What other group has the right to come together and call for murder?

    • andra says

      Jan 27, 2017 at 9:56 am

      It does not matter how often you have already thought that it can not come worse. The European politics can top it.

      I wonder what must happen for the Europeans to wake up and fight for our culture, our lands and our way of life?

    • A Harris USA says

      Jan 28, 2017 at 12:15 pm

      Kay, to the Muslim, honor killing is not Murder!! It is the family right to kill anyone who is not a Muslim savage… the UK is only buying into the savage religion of Islam… To bad, and very sad for the law abiding citizens of that once great land…. UK, wake up and get rid of the plagues… You are just signing your own death warrant, and they will come for you next… and do your kids mean anything to you??

    • Doug Skiles says

      Jan 29, 2017 at 12:47 pm

      Christians who rigidly adhere to the Mosaic Law of the Ten Commandments?

  2. Angemon says

    Jan 27, 2017 at 9:53 am

    I discovered the phenomenon of ‘disposable brides’, where British Asian men marry girls from the sub-continent, take their dowry and then cast them aside, is widespread in Pakistan and India.

    Did you also discover that looking into this sort of issues is “racist”, “bigoted” and “islamophobic”?

    • Carolyne says

      Jan 28, 2017 at 11:04 am

      I have also read that in India, young women’s Mothers in law burn them to death so their sons’ can get their dowry. Hindus, not Muslims, although Muslims would kill anyone against whom they had a grudge or someone who had something they wanted. And this is their vision of “Honor.”

  3. Richie says

    Jan 27, 2017 at 9:58 am

    Here is a question about Sharia court in the UK- do their sentences apply only to Muslims, or non Muslims alike? Is it possible the day can come when a Church of England member is brought before a Sharia court and tried for blasphemy?

    • andra says

      Jan 27, 2017 at 10:33 am

      I think it is just a question of time. As soon as the majorities change in favour for Islam all Europeans – one country after the other – will fall under Sharia Law. – Unless the Europeans will wake up and fight back.

      • jayell says

        Jan 27, 2017 at 2:08 pm

        The first reported Honour Killing of an English girl took place about a year or so ago in Lancashire, where the girl had started a relationship with a muslim Pakistani youth (or, more likely, vice-versa), the muslim parents disapproved and ordered the son not to see her any more. The girl, for some insane reason, persisted, and eventually found herself face-down in a canal. The national papers made a bit of a thing about it (“Is This the UK’s First White Honour-Killing Victim?” – all sensation, not much shock-horror indignant condemnation, it seemed). Absolutely nauseating. As for these ridiculous, preposterous, superannuated alien stone-age fossils sitting in their absurd illegitimate ‘courts’ and presuming to pass capital sentences in a country that they should have been well aware had banned the death sentence decades ago, their fatuous antediluvian ramblings just leave me speechless way beyond utter disgust. And as for that business of trading off your own children in ‘marriage arrangements’ for whatever spurious excuse for a ‘justification’, I am reminded of a late 1950’s report in an East London local newspaper that celebrated one of the first marriages between the son from a newly-arrived ‘asian’ family and a local English girl. The (‘asian’) father told the press, “Her family have no need to worry. She (the girl) is our responsibility now”. Now, what exactly did he mean by that? Perhaps the warning bells should probably have gone off all those years ago.

    • Veka Fitzfrancis says

      Jan 27, 2017 at 11:48 am

      According to Sharia they have the right to try anyone under their laws. So yes. That’s why when western women are raped in Saudi or Dubai they are subject to the death penalty for having sex outside of marriage.

      • carol says

        Jan 28, 2017 at 8:33 pm

        We’d better tell Lindsey Lohan about this.She’s out partying and I’ll bet she has no idea!!

    • Ginger says

      Jan 27, 2017 at 3:54 pm

      There’d be no need for a sharia court if blasphemy were to become part of British law and I don’t rule that out. The ‘Hate speech’ law, which PM May is anxious to extend, is the ranging shot.

    • Carolyne says

      Jan 28, 2017 at 11:05 am

      IMO that day will not only come, but it will come soon. It is so disheartening that the Land of Magna Carta is sinking to this low level.

  4. Richie says

    Jan 27, 2017 at 10:00 am

    I wonder if George Galloway will ever admit he converted to islam

  5. John A. Marre says

    Jan 27, 2017 at 11:54 am

    OK. So now the UK will have many more “honor” killings. The UK has chosen this. It’s bad because it allows the practice of Sharia law. They will be pushing it as far as they can go, always demanding more and more.

  6. stan lee says

    Jan 27, 2017 at 1:49 pm

    The UK government needs to stop playing its games with Islam! Either that, or pull down the Union Jack and hoist something colored with red,white, green and black.
    “Honor killings” are for the insane and don’t belong in the western countries, therefore such countries need to emphasize their proper standards,. Such standards are not existent to satisfy Islam, Islam came to the west “to live in peace,” which is a lot of crap. Britain is giving way to Islam, but why? Were your laws so unfair, or was it a fact you folks can’t be bothered in enforcing your own laws?

    If you believe in nothing, you will become vassals of Islam! If you are content with that fact, have at it!
    You and your EU appeasement gang have these Muslims trained now, and they have been ceded the upper hand to do as they please, to your detriment. This is not the Great Britain that fought NAZI Germany, the Axis powers, to a stop. You were most courageous then, obviously you’re not anymore those courageous, winning British.

    • Carolyne says

      Jan 28, 2017 at 11:22 am

      I don’t really know if the following demonstrates the normal British character, but this happened to me while I was in London. I had arranged for a small tour company to take me and several others on a tour to Marlboro, Bath and Stonehenge. The driver was late, we had to skip Marlboro, and spent one hour in Bath. We never made it to Stonehenge. I had scheduled and paid for a couple of other tours and demanded my money back for them since I was not happy with the first tour. In fact, when they hesitated, I told them I would call the police and report them to the tourist board. I got my money back, posthaste. My English friend said that he admired us Americans because we would not take such treatment, but the English did. I think that sort of exemplifies the British attitude and explains why they are letting Muslims take over and destroy their country. They will not stand up for themselves. I don’t know what happened between now and WW II, but they no longer have backbones.

  7. Guest says

    Jan 27, 2017 at 3:52 pm

    “they were consorting with white people.

    This is not a question of race. It is a question of ideology and belief system.”

    Daily Mail *always* seems to get this so wrong. As long as people keep mixing it up with race, the problems of islam can’t be clearly discussed.

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 27, 2017 at 5:44 pm

    What is known as the Stealth jihad otherwise called the Muslim method of Islamic Gradualism. In contrast to the way of the violent jihad or also called the militant jihad .This non-violent form of the jihad for Islam is a very sly, insidious, subtle and deceptive way of working for the advancement of Islam.
    This Muslim scheme for achieving the goal of the Islamic agenda is as, many times, as subtly effective as it is demonically clever. Furthermore, this Islamic gradualism, in some ways, is very similar to the instruction printed in the book entitled THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu. Which reads “At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to opposes you”

  9. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 27, 2017 at 5:44 pm

    Much of the sly insidious yet subtle stealth jihad is based on the Islamic dogma called Taqiyya .This is the Islamic doctrine the deception is a good thing to do as long as it’s done for the advancement of Islam. In strong contrast to this practice of Taqiyya is the teachings found in the Bible . For the Bible informs its readers in Proverbs 11:18. “The wicked worketh a deceitful work…” Likewise, the very next chapter[12] of the same book of Proverbs it reads in verse 5 “The counsels of the wicked are deceit .” Also further on verse 20 it instructs “Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil…” [K.J.V.]

  10. Hyon Kim says

    Jan 27, 2017 at 5:56 pm

    This is great. We can beat our wife’s like in the good old days.

    • Carolyne says

      Jan 28, 2017 at 11:24 am

      Careful—An American wife will beat you back.

  11. Barry Tewes says

    Jan 27, 2017 at 6:33 pm

    Why do they leave a land of oppression, to turn a democratic society of barbarians ?

  12. theendofthedemonrat says

    Jan 27, 2017 at 7:15 pm

    Those who allow this in their country are just as guilty of murder as those that committed the actual crime. What say you Ms. May?

  13. DFD says

    Jan 27, 2017 at 8:34 pm

    Sure, under Theresa May the number of Sharia courts has more than doubled.

    So, nobody ought to be surprised about this.

  14. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Jan 28, 2017 at 5:17 am

    ==QUOTE==
    The Muslim council of elders, or Sharia court, listened intently as the plaintiff [A] outlined his case. He’d been disrespected by a neighbour [B], he told them, and in such a small Pakistani community, people talk. As atonement for that disrespect, the neighbour [B] had agreed to the plaintiff’s [A’s] demand that their [A’s and B’s] children would marry each other. But when the neighbour’s [B’s] children [how many?] objected to the idea, he [B] reneged on that promise. The plaintiff [A] before the makeshift court was therefore demanding retribution. The price for that [B’s] broken promise was clear, he [A] argued: his [A’s] neighbour’s [B’s] recalcitrant children [all of them?] had dishonoured him [A] as well, and what’s more, they were consorting with white people.
    ==UNQUOTE==

    What a hard-to-follow narration this is! Do none of these people have names? What was the act of disrespect? Just who were to marry each other? Multiple children of the neighbour objected, not just the child to be married? Why is the sharia court called “makeshift”? What does “consorting with white people” have to do with anything?

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