It is noteworthy that “according to Iranian law,” which is based on Islamic law, “a man can kill his wife without punishment if he catches her with another man.” And also that “the victims’ family does not normally demand the punishment of the murderer.”
That, too, is in accord with Islamic law. According to Islamic law, “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.” (Reliance of the Traveller 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 cousin and wife, a victim to the culture of violence and intimidation that such laws help create.
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.
“Iranian teen bride who fled ‘with another man’ days after her wedding to her cousin is beheaded when jilted husband tracks her down a year later,” by Milly Vincent, Mailonline, June 15, 2020 (thanks to the Geller Report):
A 19-year-old woman has been beheaded by her husband after running away just two days into their forced marriage.
The 23-year-old man, who is also his wife’s cousin, handed himself into the Valiasr police station in Abadan, southwestern Iran, at around 10.30pm on Sunday, while holding a bloody knife.
He told officers that he had beheaded his wife due to her ‘infidelity’ and had left her decapitated body by the Bahar 56 area next to the Bahmanshir River, reports Iran International TV….
According to Iranian law a man can kill his wife without punishment if he catches her with another man, but the young woman’s attempt to leave her husband has led to local media reports citing her as the ‘runaway bride’.
The so-called honour killing took place in the Khuzestan province of Iran, which is known to have a problem with honour killings.
According to social pathologists, many men who commit honour killings suffer from physical and mental illnesses and consider their wives and daughters to be part of their property.
Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, the former Chief Justice of Khuzestan Province, considers the occurrence of honour killings to be a serious problem in the province.
He stated that the roots of honour killings in Khuzestan have been ‘institutionalised’ and said: ‘Local custom allows these killings to take place, and the perpetrators of these killings are by no means fugitives.
‘Also, unfortunately, honour killings take place in this province in a very tragic way, and the victims’ family does not normally demand the punishment of the murderer.’
The news comes as the Iranian Guardian Council approved a bill to protect minors, after the law’s delay was blamed for the murder of Romina Ashrafi, who was killed last month by her father.
Following initial outcry over Romina’s death, the Iranian top body responded by denying negligence and implying that honour killings would not be prevented by the law.
The spokesman for the Guardian Council, Abassali Kadkhodaei said: ‘A single law cannot solve problems of this kind, which has cultural, social and sometimes economic roots,’.
Editor of Iran International Sadeq Saba said: ‘The latest murder of the 19-year-old woman in Khuzestan, demonstrates that there are not enough protections in place for women across Iran.’…
Beverly says
I can imagine the gene pool in Iran is completely full of Darwin award candidates. Marrying your cousin causes all kinds of issues – physical as well as mental. Women are nothing more than vaginas on a leash and a man can do whatever he likes. They are considered pets and you can own up to four, if you can afford it. The take their young girls for FGM because they don’t want them to ever experience a real sexual experience. They are there for the man’s use and that’s it.
LB says
Replace “Iran” with “every islamic country in the world” and you’ll get a much more accurate statement.
Don Ameche says
Up Vote x 1000 !
tim gallagher says
This sort of crap leaves you speechless. Here we are living in the 21st century and yet here are knuckle dragging left overs from a far more primitive time in mankind’s history, such as this maggot, committing atrocities like this. But that’s Islam for you. Granted many Muslims wouldn’t behave like this, but it’s all there in that loathsome, outdated ideology. Come on, it’s the 21st century, not 7th century Arabia, all people should pack up and leave this vile ideology behind.
James Lincoln says
tim gallagher says,
“This sort of crap leaves you speechless.”
When I first started reading Jihad Watch about five years ago, these things would leave me speechless.
No more.
I have since learned that this is, indeed, mainstream islam. This same type of thing will go on, and on, and on, and on, and on, ad nauseam.
My advice to you is to grab a cup of coffee and enjoy a nice cheese Danish…
All of the feature articles along with all the comments on this website – however accurate – have changed nothing regarding jihad since the time that I became an avid reader and poster.
Jihad Watch is a stellar information source. The feature writers are fantastic and many of the commenters help to tease out the feature article.
It’s goal is to educate the willing about jihad – but jihad still continues unabated…
Wellington says
Seconded, James. A “story” like this one used to anger me but anymore it primarily—I wouldn’t say only but I do think primarily—“merely” adds to the numbness that the Islamic world has instilled in me about the Islamic world.
There is a banality respecting long-term iniquity which has a numbing effect on the average person. Hmmm. Perhaps this is all part of iniquity’s design. After all, just because something, someone or some ideology is evil doesn’t mean that cleverness as an aspect of malevolence should be excluded.
gravenimage says
Wellington, stories like this one still anger and horrify me–but they no longer shock.
tim gallagher says
Yes, James, Wellington and gravenimage, I’m not really surprised by any hideously evil behaviour that Islam condones. Jihad Watch certainly reports on a lot of these disgustingly evil acts, whereas the mainstream media tend to ignore them. I was going to describe this murder as an ape-like act but I know people would say that that is insulting to the far more civilised species, apes. And they would be right. It is amazing to have such primitive behaviour in the 21st century, although I suppose nothing really surprises or shocks me. I keep saying this, but, to me, the most amazing thing of all is that there are so many people, including politicians, media types, Church leaders, academics who keep telling us that islam should be respected. There are enough reports about all the barbaric garbage that islam condones for these calls for islam to be respected to be ludicrous and downright disgusting. I had a coffee an hour or so back as I was out shopping for food, but my days of eating food such as cheese Danishes are probably over for good, due to my rather clogged up, 70 year old arteries. It’s a bit of a shame, though I enjoy the healthier food I eat these days. I had a stent put in one of my coronary arteries a couple of years back. I mostly enjoy the simple life I live. Actually, probably reading all this disgusting shit that islam does is not good for my stress levels and my arteries, but I like to face up to the truth about things. I have no interest in being a chilled out hippie type of person.
Wellington says
Sorry, tim, that your days of cheese Danishes are over, but best to you nonetheless. May you continue to enjoy at least some healthier foods. My wife made me one tonight—tomato pepper soup with a lot of rice. It was delicious and I had seconds.
Well, hope you can still enjoy a beer or a glass of wine, which may actually be good for those arteries of yours, though James Lincoln would know far better since he is a medical doctor.
As for Islam, it’s hopeless. Trying to reform it is a fool’s errand. What a shame it ever came into existence in the first place. A burden to all mankind.
Take good care. And good luck with finding delicious healthier foods which I am pretty sure gravenimage knows a lot about.
gravenimage says
Good exchange.
And that tomato pepper soup sounds great. I’m making Armenian yogurt soup tonight–also very healthy.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, Wellington and gravenimage. I think getting clogged up arteries runs in our family to some degree. Other families can be predisposed to getting certain cancers, but one of my sisters has also had a stent put in, though I think relentless stress from her children probably contributed to that. I did smoke for 13 years before being sensible enough to ditch that back in the early 1980’s. If I hadn’t done that, I’d almost certainly be dead long ago. Mostly I’ve been lucky because I haven’t had any health problems which involve being in pain all the time, which I think must be very difficult for people. I do enjoy a beer during the summer because it gets very hot out here in Australia (I prefer warm weather, don’t like cold weather) and a nice cold beer after dinner is a good way to end the day. It is winter out here and I don’t bother with having cold beer during the winter. I just drink black tea when at home. I have to get some tests done, a stress test, etc, in the next couple of weeks at the cardiac clinic that I go to every few months. On Islam, I agree that the situation is hopeless. You can, almost miraculously, get a few decent Muslims, but Islam is beyond being redeemed and reformed into anything decent. Its rotten, hate filled attitude towards all of us non-Muslims, along with all its other barbaric attitudes to the way life should be lived, make it way beyond redemption. As you say, Wellington, such a shame that Islam has ever existed. A 1400 year long blight on humanity is the only way I can view it.
gravenimage says
Tim, glad you are generally doing well health-wise–and you are right that certain illnesses tend to run in certain families, and you have to be more careful.
Agree with you re Islam–there are a few decent Muslims, who ignore the uglier diktats of their religion, but the creed itself is hopelessly vicious.
tim gallagher says
We definitely agree about Islam’s nature, gravenimage. Too hopeless and evil to be reformed. Given the nasty content of Islam, it is amazing when you do come across Muslims who are OK people. On the arteries, a couple of days back, I had some maniac driver tailgating me, got a bit stressed and felt this tightness in the middle of my chest. I have had this before, but this was a lot worse. That’s why I’m getting the tests done. Lately, I’ve been writing some songs (amazing to me as I always thought I couldn’t do that but I noticed how simple the chords used in many good songs are so I gave it a go) and they have turned out pretty well so far. I’ve enjoyed trying to write songs and I think I might have a knack for it. Someone I know is going to record me singing some of the songs (probably next week) in a recording studio he has in his house. How is your visual art work going? I hope it is going well.
gravenimage says
It is, Tim–thanks. And good luck with your songwriting. If it is not a security issue for you, I hope you can post some of the results here.
infidel says
I completely third Ur comment. and as an avid longtime JW reader/follower from India,, I also think the same way.. YES INDEED!! Jehaad continues relentlessly… Even I used to get outraged in the beginning… but now for me, these grizzly beastly acts of Islam have now become the norm rather than the exception… The single cult that is more dangerous than Global Warming and Climate Change…
Michael Copeland says
“many men who commit honour killings suffer from physical and mental illnesses and consider their wives and daughters to be part of their property.”
Memo to Milly Vincent, of Mailonline:
Those “many men” are Muslims. Muslim men are INSTRUCTED in the mosques that their wives and daughters are their property: it is not some errant idea that they have developed on their own, nor is it attributable to mental illness. Islam’s teachings are why they “consider” these women to be their property.
gravenimage says
*Exactly*, Michael.
And how does Milly Vincent explain the fact that this is not even considered a crime in Iran, which is governed by Islamic law, if it just has to do with mental illness? (Also, what physical illness would lead anyone to consider women to be their property? This makes no sense at all).
Giacomo Latta says
The social pathologists who have thus spoken are obviously not up on their Islam.
keith O says
Forced to marry her cousin and then has her head cut off for daring to dishonor him by running off with someone she actually loved.
Can’t understand how anyone could find a problem with that.
If you do then your a racist Islamophobe…….Or so we are told.
gravenimage says
+1
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 Afghanistan and Pakistan, 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 !
gravenimage says
Iran: Muslim hunts down and beheads his 19-year-old bride after she fled two days into their forced marriage
……………..
How *horrifying*. And there will be no punishment for this savage murder in Iran.
God, I hate Islam.
Jenny H says
She must have been 17 years old when she was forced to marry, if she was 19 when she was murdered 2 years later. Poor girl.
gravenimage says
This murderous thug spent at least *a year* tracking down a girl he was effectively married to for two whole days. How sick is that?
gravenimage says
I should have made it clear that this was *sick in any case*–but I mean it wasn’t as though he had formed some real bond with this girl and was heartbroken when she left him.
katemul says
And the world’s feminists are silent, silent as a tomb
gravenimage says
I believe in equal rights for women, and I condemn this atrocity.
James Lincoln says
The world needs LOTS more women like you, gravenimage…
gravenimage says
Thanks you, James. I hope there *are* a lot more women who condemn this. I doubt many in the West have even heard about this.
Wellington says
Enthusiastically seconded, James.
Battle says
The “run away bride” was also the “runaway cousin”
.”
More heinous he murdered his own cousin.
Murder it is.
Miguel Ángel says
Why does the MSM media in britain never report such abhorrent crimes when they report crimes in other countries. It beggars belief again that the MSM are feeding people their leftest agenda and Muslim loving crap constantly and nobody can do anything about it. They report only what they want to feed us
gravenimage says
I take your point, Miguel, but this story *was* reported in the Daily Mail.
OLD GUY says
ISLAM Oh what a great religion, forced marriages and honor killing are blessed. This religion makes about as much sense as defunding police and turning criminals loose. It appears that common sense is no longer part of human thinking. Are the NUTS now running the insane asylum and violence is now considered the normal? If this world continues in this direction everyone will need to carry a gun to protect themselves, looks like the Wild West all over again. It appears that Islam and the far left are almost one in the same.
gravenimage says
I wish I could say you are wrong on any of these points. OLD GUY.
Don Ameche says
From the article:
“According to social pathologists, many men who commit honour killings suffer from physical and mental illnesses and consider their wives and daughters to be part of their property.”
All of islam is a mental illness ….. and a social sickness.