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Ghor province, Afghanistan: Three honor killings in the last three weeks

Apr 15, 2017 8:33 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

A 19-year-old shot by her husband’s family after he claimed she wasn’t a virgin. An 18-year-old was killed with her mother because of suspicion she had had an abortion. And a 17-year-old killed and burned when she tried to escape from a forced marriage. Our Observer in Ghor province, Afghanistan, brings us three stories of honour killings from the last three weeks

More human carnage, adding to the pile of female victims brutalized in the name of Islam. The Islamic State is routinely described as an aberration of Islam, but the same brutalities are practiced in Muslim countries around the world. Saudi Arabia and Qatar were discovered to be funding the Islamic State while “sex slaves captured by ISIS terrorists are being sold at sickening auctions in Saudi Arabia.” The report below highlights Afghanistan, but abuse and subjugation of women is routine in Muslim countries.

People in Afghanistan talk about women who are killed in honour killings. But they don’t talk about the women who choose to end their lives themselves because they are living in situations they can’t bear. It is very common for women to commit suicide by eating rat poison or setting fire to themselves.

The dead silence of leftist feminists in the face of the global crisis of Sharia-sanctioned brutality against women and young girls is sickening.

“The place in Afghanistan where it’s “easy to kill women”, by Masouma Anvari, France 24, April 13, 2017:

A 19-year-old shot by her husband’s family after he claimed she wasn’t a virgin. An 18-year-old was killed with her mother because of suspicion she had had an abortion. And a 17-year-old killed and burned when she tried to escape from a forced marriage. Our Observer in Ghor province, Afghanistan, brings us three stories of honour killings from the last three weeks.

Ghor is a remote mountain province 400 km west of the capital Kabul. The Taliban and other armed groups are active, and state control is weak. It’s also one of the least-developed provinces in Afghanistan: child marriage is common, and “honour killings” – often women trying to flee marriages they were forced into – are frequent.

According to Afghan law, girls must be 16 years old to marry, and boys 18. But our Observer says that in the remote villages of Ghor, the law is seldom respected. The marriage of a 6-year-old girl to a 55-year mullah in the province 2016 provoked international outrage.

“You see how easy it is to kill women here”

Masooma Anwari, a longtime women’s rights activist, is also head of women’s affairs in the province, a position appointed by the central government in Kabul.

About three weeks ago in Shahrak district, a 19-year-old girl called Bibigol was shot by her husband and his family. She was forced to marry a boy her age five years ago; he was 13 at the time, she was 14. Because they were children, they didn’t have sexual intercourse. Then three weeks ago her husband wanted to have sex with her for the first time. He claimed that she wasn’t a virgin. After arguments between the two families, tribal leaders ordered her to be shot. She was executed in cold blood on a hillside.

Then on April 3 activists in the province published photographs on Facebook showing the burned bodies of a woman and a man. The bodies had been discovered in a ravine near a village in the province’s Du Layna district.

The photos show the burned body of a young woman named Soraya. She was 17 years old, and lived in Du Layna. She ran away with a male cousin and while they were fleeing they killed her husband. The couple went to the house of Soraya’s mother in another village. But her husband’s brothers followed them and killed all three of them to avenge their family’s honour – Soraya, her cousin, and her mother. They burned Soraya’s body afterwards. We asked the police to arrest the husband’s brothers, but they said it was impossible because they fled to territory under control of the Taliban. The police said there was nothing they could do.

And then, just four days ago, an unmarried girl called Mahansar, who was about 18, was killed along with her mother Tabarrok, 45, on the orders of tribal leaders, also in the Dawlat Yar district. They claimed she had got pregnant and had had an abortion. But there’s no sign she was even pregnant. You see how easy it is to kill women here.

“People think killers are defending their honour”

Ghor is a no man’s land. People are poor and not educated, and the culture of violence and weapons is well-established. People live in fear – in fear of the powerful tribal leaders, who are often involved in the drug trade, and the Taliban. The police are ineffective and just think about getting more money.

It’s unsafe for everyone, but especially for women. Many women here were forced into marriages when they were still children – as early as 10 years old; and sometimes even younger. When they get older they want to run away from the miserable life they were forced into. And if they try they often end up becoming victims of honour killings by male members of their tribe. People don’t see these men as criminals: they accept that they are defending their family’s honour. Also, it’s easy for the perpetrators to find shelter in the Taliban regions, where the police can’t arrest them.

People in Afghanistan talk about women who are killed in honour killings. But they don’t talk about the women who choose to end their lives themselves because they are living in situations they can’t bear. It is very common for women to commit suicide by eating rat poison or setting fire to themselves….

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  1. mortimer says

    Apr 15, 2017 at 8:48 am

    Islam’s honor-shame culture demands the restoration of lost male ‘honor’ by the shedding of blood.

    A perverse logic sets in when a family member disobeys or disagrees with the patriarch: The patriarch claims the right to make all decision over his household by divine right… as a kind despot. Resisting the patriarch’s will seen as resisting the will of Allah. Whoever resists Allah is a bad Muslim. A bad Muslim should be punished as an example. Muslim patriarchs ‘cull’ bad Muslims in the family in the same way as a cattleman culls a rogue, dangerous, disobedient animal or as a farmer pulls weeds from among vegetables or spoiled fruit from a tree. There is little or no emotion about ‘culling’ bad Muslims in one’s family. They are kafirs at war with Islam and do not deserve to live.

    Once you understand the MIND OF ISLAM, you realize that IF THEY WILL DO THAT TO THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS, Muslim are capable of the WORST and CRUELEST GENOCIDES IMAGINABLE…and that is exactly what we see. ‘In the cause of Allah’, the end justifies the means. Jihad is amoral, but effective.

    • old white guy says

      Apr 15, 2017 at 9:50 am

      tell why islam should not be wiped off the face of the earth.

    • Don Foss says

      Apr 16, 2017 at 11:30 am

      “Ghor is a no man’s land. People are poor and not educated.” The are very educated in Islamic doctrine.

  2. Monty says

    Apr 15, 2017 at 8:49 am

    Nothing honourable about murder, especially for the pathetic reasons Muslims dredge up. It will be interesting to see how feminists respond when it is their turn to submit to Sharia law. I suggest every advocate for Islam spend a few weeks in the tribal areas of Pakistan or Afghanistan. If they don’t get themselves killed it should be most enlightening.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 15, 2017 at 8:58 am

      Monty, your Western morality is seen as perverted and rebellious by Muslims. Removing a dirty KAFIR from your family glorifies Islam and is the JUSTICE of Allah.

      WHO ARE YOU to argue against Allah’s will?

      Though many Muslims now live in the West, they still bring the Honor-Shame Paradigm with them. Honor is restored to a Muslim through the shedding of blood. No kafir is ‘innocent’. All kafirs deserve to be killed because they reject Mohammed.

      • Isabellathecruader says

        Apr 15, 2017 at 11:18 am

        I’ve always thought that men killing women to get their honor back is such a cowardly act. It’s the ultimate Good-Ole-Boys-Club…”because we are stronger than women we can abuse them as we like and then get rid of the evidence by trumping up charges against them and having them killed.”

        Cowards, every single one of them, to their everlasting shame.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 15, 2017 at 9:50 pm

        Important points, Mortimer.

    • Don Foss says

      Apr 16, 2017 at 11:33 am

      I remember about 10 years ago when India started a professional cricket league and some of Pakistan’s best players wanted to get paid for their skills in India. What stopped many of them? Death threats, which are taken very seriously in Pakistan.

  3. mortimer says

    Apr 15, 2017 at 8:53 am

    Islam’s honor-shame culture demands the restoration of lost male ‘honor’ by the shedding of blood.

    A perverse logic sets in when a family member disobeys or disagrees with the Islamic patriarch. It goes like this: The patriarch claims the right to make all decision over his household by divine right… as a kind despot. Resisting the patriarch’s will is seen as resisting the will of Allah. Whoever resists Allah is a bad Muslim. A bad Muslim should be punished as an example. Muslim patriarchs ‘cull’ bad Muslims out of the family in the same way as a cattleman culls a rogue, dangerous, disobedient animal or as a farmer pulls weeds from among vegetables or removes spoiled fruit from a tree. There is little or no emotion about ‘culling’ bad Muslims out of one’s family. They are kafirs at war with Islam (harbis) and do not deserve to live. Moreover, Sharia law has no punishment for HONOR-KILLING. None.

    Once you understand the MIND OF ISLAM, you realize that IF THEY WILL DO THAT TO THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS, Muslim are capable of the WORST and CRUELEST GENOCIDES IMAGINABLE…and that is exactly what we see. ‘In the cause of Allah’, the end justifies the means. Jihad is amoral, but effective.

    The KAFIR DOCTRINE lies behind all HONOR-KILLINGS. Understand the KAFIR DOCTRINE and HONOR-KILLING becomes perfectly clear.

    • TR says

      Apr 15, 2017 at 11:22 am

      I am behooved when I see women marching in the streets demanding the importation of these absolute savage, hostile insurgents into their western culture. These barbarians do not want their western culture with it’s woman’s rights interfering with their blood-lust mentality.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 15, 2017 at 10:11 pm

      You are right–except Muslim males are not kind despots…

  4. Jerry says

    Apr 15, 2017 at 9:40 am

    So this is what I’m expected to welcome into my neighborhood without concern. Girls are forced into marriage and then murdered when they find the courage to run. And then the murderer is praised as defending the family honor! A muslim girl dates a non-muslim and get’s her ears and nose cut off or acid in the face. But a muslim man can rape, beat, or divorce a woman on a whim and that’s okay. What? you don’t have 4 witnesses to that rape? Stone her! Bizarre and insane. The koran teaches male superiorty and islamic culture has morphed that male chauvinism into a brutal oppression of women. And we see how they’re bringing this filth to the west, Europe is our teacher.

    Minnesota is too kind for its own good. More and more I’m seeing our politicians and community leaders grandstanding for islam. Remember when Gov. Dayton admonished Minnesotans,

    “If you are that intolerant, if you are that much of a racist or a bigot, then find another state.”

    Would he ever say the same to muslims about their bigoted religion that inspires terror every day? lol, that needs no reply.

    My state is fast becoming the new islamic capital of America, mosques are popping up like poison mushrooms. Religious fascism has seeded and it will only bring more of this kind of terror. Women will suffer most, but we’ll all be damned. I don’t want to be murdered because I choose not to believe in a retarded and violent superstition. The entire culture of islam has lived a 1400 year quest to please a narcissistic demon. And I don’t believe for one second that Minnesota’s muslims are going to be any different when the sh*t hits the fan.

    When will I feel safe with muslims? When they become ex-muslims.

    • Isabellathecruader says

      Apr 15, 2017 at 11:24 am

      Sorry Gov. Dayton but murder, rape, maiming and destroying other people’s lives are not racist issues. Preventing those things from happening to the citizens of your state is your responsibility and if you don’t live up to your oath of office and protect those citizens you will go down in history as a woos, a panderer and someone who thought more of political correctness than keeping his word. Get with the program.

      • Jerry says

        Apr 15, 2017 at 12:33 pm

        “Sorry Gov. Dayton but murder, rape, maiming and destroying other people’s lives are not racist issues.”

        Thanks for clarifying that good point, that commonsense truth is always conveniently overlooked by the left. Somehow caring about murder and terror for religion has become a racist issue for them. I suppose it’s because they can’t offer a reasoned response. The charge of racism is just a club to beat us over the head, like killing baby seals. Facts and reality don’t gel at all with their barbaric agenda, it’s all part of their blunt propaganda against our legitimate concerns. We’re treated like stupid children that don’t know better, telling us it’s a “religion of peace” despite 1400 years of jihad. Not all muslims are killers, they say, so that means we shouldn’t even address islam’s bigoted doctrine that inspires every manner of crime and oppression. The koran has some kind verses, we’re reminded, so the murderous and hateful ones should be ignored along with the terror they inspire. We’re told that islam is protected under religious freedom, even though islam’s primary mission is to destroy all other religions. We are constantly told that muslims are minority victims, yet it is us “infidels” who are terrorized and persecuted. To leftist/apologists truth is a lie and falsehood is reality. That’s their world view, but it ain’t ours. The good people of the world are fighting back against their retarded evil. Our democracy is infinitely better than the 7th century camel crap they pass off as divine truth.

        In the end we’ll win. But only because we listened to people like Spencer who speak the truth, and because we had the good sense to act on that truth.

  5. Richard Paulsen says

    Apr 15, 2017 at 9:50 am

    They can not be proud, Must feel very bad.
    Lots of men coming to Europe from Afghanistan. Males the majority in most muslim countries. because females are aborted and women killed if they try to escape.
    In Sweden men now are majority over women in fertile ages due to immigration of muslim men.
    UN should stop it. Europe and U.S.A. should not allow them in.
    Politicians forcing communities and cities to take in hundreds and thousands and to pay for them. Forced by law. Saying you become rich if you let an afghan male live in your home. You can see them almost everywhere in all of Sweden as well as other muslim females and males.
    Families here being paid and persuaded to accept in their homes. The muslim girls arriving, only allowed to leave their “countries” together with a male relative. ´
    Muslim males staying éxclusively with non Muslim families, while the muslim females exclusively in muslim families.
    Astonishing the circus is not being stopped. Lots wanting to stop but seems impossible to stop the madness. At least regarding Sweden.

  6. Charli Main says

    Apr 15, 2017 at 9:57 am

    These sick Muslim vermin need to be culled out of human society.

    Lunatics, proud to model themselves on the lunatic that invented the sick perversion called Islam.

  7. Richard Paulsen says

    Apr 15, 2017 at 10:34 am

    How vome they talk about love and honour? With forced marriages.

    • Richard Paulsen says

      Apr 15, 2017 at 10:35 am

      Corr: “How come…”

  8. plum says

    Apr 15, 2017 at 8:59 pm

    muslim population control

  9. gravenimage says

    Apr 15, 2017 at 9:42 pm

    Ghor province, Afghanistan: Three honor killings in the last three weeks
    ………………………

    Actually, the body count was more than three if you read the article. These poor girls and women.

    *This* is what a fully Islamic society looks like–virtually hell on earth.

  10. Florida Jim says

    Apr 16, 2017 at 8:03 am

    Is any muslim Imam familiar with the phrase “go and sin no more” or is that only Jesus Christ?

  11. Bob says

    Apr 16, 2017 at 8:55 am

    Once again, where’re the western womens’ rights gangs now? No marches supporting these muslim women – not the slightest squeak of protest or support. Hypocrites all!

  12. Bob Burns says

    Apr 16, 2017 at 10:23 am

    A book you might want to read : “Honor Killing” by Daniel Akbari. Provides a perspective that needs understanding. Even non practicing Muslims understand the concept of ghayra.

  13. Don Foss says

    Apr 16, 2017 at 11:34 am

    Look at the photo. Not a single female.

  14. Michael says

    Apr 16, 2017 at 10:24 pm

    kill a woman to protect a man’s honor?

    clearly males in Islam have no honor. there is no such thing as honor in Islam. Not honor the way we know it to be.

    To kill someone to preserve or regain your honor? Honor is, in Islam, dictated by the Koran. There is no internal sense or measure of honor. There is no individuality in honor. No conscience, which is as aspect of being human.

    If we allow ‘honor’ to be defined by others, then Islam would have its appeal. If we are unable to think for ourselves, then Islam would have its appeal. Of course Islam does not allow independent thought and free speech. Thus, there is, for all intents and purposes, no individuality in Islam. There are no individuals. There are automatons, raised from birth to follow a book written 1,400 years ago.

    Many on the left — not all, of course — no longer think. They operate purely by emotion. They have few, if any, facts on which to base their conclusion. But they have conclusions, on every topic — without any actual intellectual footing. And to protect the fallacy and emptiness of their conclusion, they resort to ever more strident emotions. And they attack, viciously, those who question their conclusions and reveal their emptiness.

    I met someone recently. She asked, Are you conservative or liberal? I said conservative. she said, I don’t abide conservatives in ‘the age of Trump,’ as she put it. And that was end of conversation.

    I pointed out that it was interesting that she was practicing the opposite of tolerance, which the left claims is so important. And without understanding even the slightest, what ‘conservative’ meant, she had her conclusions all set — without a single fact. And she was unwilling to entertain any facts at all, that might undermine her belief / conclusion.

    We are up against people who cannot and do not think. Hopefully there are enough people who do think, to resist Islam at all costs.

    Islam raises everyone from birth to not think. Without thinking, there is no individuality. There is only a mob mentality, and obviously a very, very deadly one.

    As people here have pointed out many times, no one will debate Robert because, factually, he will destroy them, and reveal for everyone to see that their conclusions have no factual basis. And so rather than have their very fragile belief system shaken and shattered, they will attack viciously and would prefer to kill those like Robert, than face their own nothingness.

    No free thought, no free speech, no questions asked … that is death. That is Islam. Interestingly, it’s basically a bunch of effectively dead humans on the inside. But very very alive with evil. That which would have grown, had it been at all encouraged and supported — an individual human being — has been replaced with something dead. perhaps that is evil: it’s dead, but alive, and wants everything else dead right along with it.

    Forgive my rambling. I wonder about these things a great deal. perhaps there’s no value in it. Still, i wonder.

    It’s perhaps a reminder why we must fight, whatever it takes, for our freedom of speech. Because the death of freedom of speech precedes, and will be followed by, death of free thought. And without free thought, we are slaves.

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