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.
“108 women in Sindh ‘killed for honour’ in 2019 alone: police report,” by Imtiaz Ali, Dawn, January 31, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
As many as 108 women fell victim to ‘honour killings’ in Sindh over the past year, according to a police report released on Friday.
The report, compiled by the police, recorded statistics from January 31, 2019 to January 30, 2020. According to the report, 126 people, who were suspected of being involved in the ‘honour killings’, had been arrested. Challans of 81 cases pertaining to ‘honour killings’ were presented in courts while 32 are still being investigated.
The courts are hearing 73 cases of the crime, while three have been thrown out.
Over the same period, 132 women were murdered for different reasons, the report said, adding that 174 suspects had been arrested. Police had presented challans in 87 of the cases, while 42 were still under investigation. In six cases, police were unable to find any evidence, the report said.
Out of the cases brought to courts, six were dismissed, while 75 are being heard.
Three cases of acid attacks on women were registered with the police, in which two suspects had been arrested. One case is still being investigated while the other two are being heard by the court.
Furthermore, 1,158 cases of kidnapping of girls were registered with the police, out of which 249 were closed after it was found that the women had married of their own free will. Police arrested 550 suspects and 358 cases are being heard by courts.
Another 466 cases were still being probed by the police. In 26 kidnapping cases, no leads had been found while 20 others were declared ‘fake’.
Police also recorded 128 cases of physical torture against women over the past year and arrested 136 suspects. The challans of 72 cases were submitted in courts, while 45 cases were under investigation. About 64 cases are being heard by the courts.
One case remains unsolved as police were unable to find evidence, while 14 were dismissed.
At least 95 cases of rape of women were registered over the past year, out of which 40 were being probed. Police admitted to have failed to make any headway in one case, while they also claimed to have arrested 92 suspects and presented challans of 42 cases in court, 37 of which are being heard….
The report also states that 41 cases of criminal assault of boys were also recorded by the police, out of which 18 are still under investigation. Police had taken 58 people into custody over suspicion of involvement….
DHazard says
A Muslim man has to make sure his livestock knows who’s the boss. What would the neighbors think if they found one of his herd wandering off by itself?
mortimer says
You got it, DHazard. A Muslim patriarch doesn’t want the other ‘cattle’ to think he is soft or a pushover so they will not challenge his authority or step out of line. As a farmer CULLS rogue animals, a Muslim patriarch thinks similarly of honor killing.
Islamic honor killing restores the prestige and authority of the Muslim patriarch. The ‘shame’ and loss of prestige of the patriarch is washed away by the shedding of blood.
Savvy Kafir says
All devout Muslims know is hatred & savagery, which are at the very core of their insane ideology.
In a sane world, in which the majority of non-Muslims were familiar with the core tenets of Islam, NO Muslims would ever be allowed to live in the civilized world. We need to create that sort of sane, Islam-free world in the West. And there would be no shame in that whatsoever — it’s just common sense, alloyed with the will to survive.
mortimer says
Quotes from Phyllis Chesler, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2010:
To combat the epidemic of honor killings requires understanding what makes these murders unique. They differ from plain and psychopathic homicides, serial killings, crimes of passion, revenge killings, and domestic violence. Their motivation is different and based on codes of morality and behavior that typify some cultures, often reinforced by fundamentalist religious dictates.
Murder of teenage or young adult women by their fathers or other close male relatives is characteristic of classic honor killings and is not a pattern in non-immigrant Western populations.
Most honor killings are not classified as such, are rarely prosecuted, or when prosecuted in the Muslim world, result in relatively light sentences.[3] When an honor killing occurs in the West, many people, including the police, still shy away from calling it an honor killing. In the West, both Islamist and feminist groups, including domestic violence activists, continue to insist that honor killings are a form of Western-style domestic violence or femicide (killing of women). They are not.
The worldwide average age of victims for the entire population is twenty-three. This is true for all geographical regions. Thus, wherever an honor killing is committed, it is primarily a crime against young people. Just over half of these victims were daughters and sisters; about a quarter were wives and girlfriends of the perpetrators. The remainder included mothers, aunts, nieces, cousins, uncles, or non-relatives.
Honor killings are a family collaboration. Worldwide, two-thirds of the victims were killed by their families of origin.
Worldwide, more than half the victims were tortured; i.e., they did not die instantly but in agony. In North America, over one-third of the victims were tortured; in Europe, two-thirds were tortured; in the Muslim world, half were tortured. Torturous deaths include: being raped or gang-raped before being killed; being strangled or bludgeoned to death; being stabbed many times (10 to 40 times); being stoned or burned to death; being beheaded, or having one’s throat slashed.
Finally, worldwide, 58 percent of the victims were murdered for being “too Western” and/or for resisting or disobeying cultural and religious expectations (see Table 1). The accusation of being “too Western” was the exact language used by the perpetrator or perpetrators. Being “too Western” meant being seen as too independent, not subservient enough, refusing to wear varieties of Islamic clothing (including forms of the veil), wanting an advanced education and a career, having non-Muslim (or non-Sikh or non-Hindu) friends or boyfriends, refusing to marry one’s first cousin, wanting to choose one’s own husband, choosing a socially “inferior” or non-Muslim (or non-Sikh or non-Hindu) husband; or leaving an abusive husband.
gravenimage says
Islamic Republic of Pakistan: 108 women murdered for honor in 2019 in one province alone
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Hideous–but this should not surprise. This is orthodox Islam.
Moreover. about 75% of the women in prison in Pakistan are there for “honor crimes” like resisting forced marriages.
Savvy Kafir says
Hard to reconcile all of this with the absurd claim made by thoroughly deluded (or deeply dishonest) Muslim women in the West who assure us that Islam is a liberating force for women!
gravenimage says
Yes, Savvy Kafir–of all the absurd claims made about Islam, this is one of the most obviously grotesque.
JMB says
I will say this again; `, Where is the UNHRC in all of these horrific human rights abuses. 2, Australia still plays cricket with Pakistan, where are all the calls for a boycott of sporting links?
James says
Hopefully the people who commit such terrible crimes and the judges who enforce the right to commit them are abnormal cases, like the fanatical sects that arise in America. Perhaps the polygamous sects that form little communities in rural areas. Hopefully they are not the typical cases. But why should the US or Western countries be importing such people? Are they so desperate for immigrants? And why do they turn down people who are not perverts?
gravenimage says
James, I’m afraid this is indeed mainstream Islam.
As for the tiny ugly polygamous fringe sects of Mormonism in the US, even they aren’t “Honor Killing” women.
Marigold says
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge paid a visit to Pakistan not so long ago. If members of the royal family made it their business to boycott countries which have a poor record on human rights it would help to drive the message home that England strongly disapproves.Muslim counties in particular have poor records on human rights.If they boycotted Pakistan it would show them that they do not approve of honor killings, female genital mutilation or the persecution of Christians. The royals are not stupid they must know what goes on in these countries. Then of course there are so many Pakistanis in Britain now that they have to pacify them or they would not feel safe. England has really put itself into a tight corner with its immigration policies
gravenimage says
Marigold, I wish the royals *would* make a stand over this.
SamsMyNamePedantry'smyGame says
Challan (Indian English)
a document in which an official claim is made by the police that somebody has committed a crime or a traffic offence.
Walter Sieruk says
Islamic “culture” is not actually a real culture but cruel savage primitive murderous system of brutal religious vicious violence. As seen in that malicious murder “custom” called “honor killing.”
Be that vicious murderous action take place in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia or in any other Islamic country and now even some Western nations.
About the topic of Islamic violence which, something, takes the form of the brutal cruel vicious and murderous action that is so inappropriately y called “honor killing.” This malicious misogyny is so heinous callous and malice- filled that it’s an affront to all that is good, decent and right.
In addition, the author, Brigitte Gabriel in her book which is entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED on pages 171,172 , that “The shocking reality is that most Muslim men ,including those educated in the West ,have no objection to the degradation of women in their countries .Across the Muslim world, even in moderate Islamic countries, women’s’ rights are almost nonexistent…Women is Islam are considered unclean ,deemed inferior even to dirt.” In this just cited book it explains on page 176 that “Honor killings have also come to the West thanks to the rise of Islamic immigration. “
Indeed, they must be stopped!
Walter Sieruk says
As for the brutal ,cruel vicious and murderous actions of Islamic misogyny which is so inappropriately called “honor killing.” This heinously wicked misogynists Islamic tradition reaches such n demonic extent of evil and madness that in number of Muslim nations ,as Pakistan , if a girl or woman is raped she then might undergo being murdered in an “honor killing.” This is worse that a terrible miscarriage it’s an outright outrageous affront to all that is decent, good right as well as sane. To actual punish the victim of raped and not the rapists is most hideous, vile and wrong. very wrong. The Bible teaches in Proverbs 17:15. “The Lord hates two things, punishing the innocent and letting the guilty go free.” [E.R.V.]
Kavan Sherwood (@TattoedMan77) says
I wonder if Jeremy Corbyn or the British Labour Party will be commenting on this? I mean if it had been Israel they wouldn’t have waited till the ink was dry before organising a protest in Nelson’s Column. But the Homeland of 80%of Labour Voters(and grooming gangs)will be blissfully ignored.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Keeping those heffers in line.
A very moooving article. Another example of why a Fascist-Islamic society poses the greatest existential threat to their female members.