Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. 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.
“Two Teenage Sisters Murdered In Pakistan Dishonour Killing,” Indo-Asian News Service, November 5, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Two teenaged sisters were strangled to death by their cousins for allegedly meeting boys in a fresh case of dishonour killing in Pakistan, the police said on Monday.
Bisma Bibi, 19, and Naheed Bibi, 17, were killed by their two cousins on Sunday night when they returned home after meeting the two boys, said Jamaldin Wali, police spokesperson for Sadiqabad district where the crime took place.
The two accused were waiting for the sisters near their house and later strangled them.
“They died on the spot,” Wali told Efe news, adding that it was a case of dishonour killing and that the accused had been arrested.
Dishonour crimes are very common in South Asia and often involve men killing women they believe had brought disrepute to the family name.
So far this year, 938 women and men have been victims of dishonour killings in the country, according to the non-profit Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
The non-profit had also warned that unofficially the numbers might be much higher….
tom parry says
The Boys showed their respect to their family and Prophet mo. It is sad that non muslim people from their oppressed countries were not more welcome for refugee status. Instead we got more Honorable muslim immagrants whom have no wish to live with western values. It’s all too late we have way too many refugees. If only the muslim could be sent back.
BC says
You do not seem to have noticed that this was in Pakistan
Ursula Dick says
Make no mistake, honor killings and FGM are already here.
J D S says
The U.S. needs to take a closer look at MUSlim laws such as HONOR KILLINGS….ISLAMIC LAWS ARE ILLEGAL and Honor killings is murder…Death to those who may perpetrate such sickening things.
boakai ngombu says
yup. seems women who don’t know their place (as chattel) are meant to suffer
killing due to assumed dishonorguilt before innocence is the SHARIA way
tedh754 says
And Britain thinks it is a good idea to let millions of these cretins into their countries.
gravenimage says
Honor killing in Pakistan: Two Muslim sisters strangled to death by their cousins for meeting boys
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These *poor girls*. God, I hate Islam.
Anne Smith says
How right was Winston Churchill when he wrote
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“The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men ………………….No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”
SB says
Murdered by their future husbands. The irony.
Jean says
SB.
In islam, that is not ironic at all, if you pause to think about it. A frightening thought indeed.
In islam, husbands are essentially the jailers, judges, rapists, and executioners of their wives. That is the content of sharia.
BC says
Two years for murder if it is a sibling or child, seems cheap at that price
Jean says
The relation between man and woman in islam: No love, no friendship, no communication.
Keith W. Jordan says
There is no honor in “honor Killing”. The name of it needs to be changed to reflect the horror of it. How about “horror killing”?
Vicky says
Muslims kill their children, their family members, like stray dogs.
Manny says
“So far this year, 938 women and men have been victims of dishonour killings in the country.”
What??? 938 in eleven months? That’s almost three per day. Are you friggin kidding me? That’s outrageous. They are savages.