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Iran: Muslim cleric says father who beheaded daughter can’t be executed “because it’s against Islamic law”

Jun 9, 2020 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Mousa Ghazanfarabadi is not an “Islamophobe.” He is a Muslim cleric, a man who has dedicated his life to studying Islam and understanding it properly. Given the sanction honor killing has in Islamic law, it’s not all that surprising. 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 daughter, 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.

“A Daughter Is Beheaded, and Iran Asks if Women Have a Right to Safety,” by Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, June 7, 2020

…“The laws for violence against women are enough,” Mousa Ghazanfarabadi, a conservative cleric and lawmaker, told local media. “We cannot execute Romina’s father because it’s against Islamic law.”…

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  1. CogitoErgoSum says

    Jun 9, 2020 at 2:16 pm

    If there is no retaliation for parents who kill their offspring, why is there a sentence of any prison time at all? Why is even a two years maximum allowed? Muslims must think there is something wrong with parents murdering their children even if Allah does not. How does this make any sense?

    • Keys says

      Jun 9, 2020 at 2:41 pm

      This Islamic practice ought to be enough for any normal human being to reject Islam. But this honor killing is what Allah blesses as justice and love and it pleases him. Certainly, this is Allah and Mohammad calling evil to be good.

      Incredible that many Muslims do not see the irony in what Al-Jazeera reported: “Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.” Religious tradition ! Destroy families ! Values !

      Is Al-Jazeera implying that Muslims who are not “Islamists and conservatives” say otherwise ? Then why are the laws not changed ? Because “honor killing” is what Islam teaches and to try to change that means more “honor killing” for the sake of Allah and Islam.

      Once in hell it’s damned-hard to get out.

      • revereridesagain says

        Jun 9, 2020 at 5:47 pm

        Too many of the “normal human beings” put their hands over their ears and yell “La-la-la-la-la!!” when you try to explain the facts of Islamic “honor” killing to them. It’s like the people still driving around in their cars with masks over their faces so they won’t catch coronoavirus in their own cars with the doors shut. So they won’t catch “Islamophobia” they put the masks over their ears. And why should they care what happens to these girls? No one is demanding that they kneel and acknowledge a true systemic “tradition” of murder. Those girls’ lives don’t really “matter”, after all.

        4 months of COVID lockdown with a riot chaser will make a cynic out of anybody.

        • JAR says

          Jun 9, 2020 at 7:07 pm

          Revere, that is a fantastic comment. So true. And witty. Perhaps your remarks resonate with the cynic in me. I had to come out of lurk mode to tell you. Thanks for offering up your spot-on zinger.

        • James Lincoln says

          Jun 9, 2020 at 9:24 pm

          revereridesagain says,

          “It’s like the people still driving around in their cars with masks over their faces so they won’t catch coronoavirus in their own cars with the doors shut.”

          Unbelievably, I actually saw people doing this on I-495 in Haverhill, Massachusetts…

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 9, 2020 at 10:11 pm

          I literally had a friend put her hands over her ears when I tried to tell her about Islamic savagery.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 9, 2020 at 10:09 pm

      CogitoErgoSum, the police just wanted to make sure the little girl was butchered by the “right” murderer.

    • toomanyhobbies says

      Jun 10, 2020 at 9:45 pm

      how about mandatory sterilization of the man and his wife…

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 9, 2020 at 2:33 pm

    That brutal and heartless Muslim father who ruthlessly murdered his own daughter ,Romina, in what he called an”honor killing” will sadly escape the punishment he truly deserves .This is because ,as the above article reveals ,”Romina’s father will escape the death penalty because he was Romina’s ‘guardian’, and Islamic Penal Code means he is exempt from ‘qisas’, or ‘retaliation in kind’, Al Arabiya reported.

    Sharia law says that only ‘blood owners’ – immediate family members – are allowed to demand execution for the murder of a relative.”

    This exposes the callous vicious and evil murderous spirit of Sharia law and the wickedness of that Islamic regime to Iran that is so very primitive and savage to uphold Sharia law.

    In addition, the blatant evilness of not calling action for what they actually are is wrong. very wrong .

    That the Muslim father did to his daughter is outright coldblooded murder .To call what he did an “honor killing” instead of calling it murder is worse than dishonest . It’s a lie of a cover up that’s a complete and total affront against all the is honest, truthful decent just and right.

    To explain this another way , To call a murder an “honor killing” is just like scraping the label that reads “Danger deadly poison “off a jar poison and then replacing that label with another label that reads”Apple juice” That is no way changes the deadly substance in that jar.

    Likewise, calling a murder an”honor killing ” doesn’t change what that deadly act of violence actually is . It’s still murder. .

    The ayatollah, mullahs imams and other Muslim in power in Iran are too ignorant and blinded by Islam and its Sharia law to see this obvious truth.

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 9, 2020 at 3:12 pm

    In Islamic Shiite Iran as well as in Islamic Sunni Pakistan the heinously brutal and cruel misogyny of Islam sometimes results in cold blooded murder. As seen in this specific case in Iran .

    Those evil men who engage that murderous behavior along with those who actually encourage this heinous evil attempt to hide what it actually is, blatant and outright murder by giving that wicked action another term , they call it ‘honor killing” there nothing ,at all , in this action of murder really involve honor.

    This is just like scrapping the warning label off a jar of poison and then replacing in with another label that reads ‘Apple Juice.” The fact is changing the label doesn’t change the deadly substance contained in the jar,

    Likewise calling murder the inappropriate term “honor killing” doesn’t change what is literally is . Which is murder.

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 9, 2020 at 5:15 pm

    The title of this jihadwatch article makes things loud and clear, the heading reads “Iran: Muslim cleric says father who beheaded daughter can’t be executed ‘because it’s against Islamic law’ ”

    Therefore, this topic of Islamic law ,otherwise known and Sharia law. It should be made known that the actual origin of Sharia law is revealed in a Time –Life book with the title MESOPOTAMIA: THE MIGHTY KINGS copyright 1995. The point is this history book about the ancient pagan world of Mesopotamia informs the reader that “many Islamic laws resemble the Babylon and Assyrian forebears.” .page 150.

    There is the above and other references imply that such pagan teachings were incorporated into the religion that Muhammad manufactured and then started.

    Thus this further reveals that a lot of ancient paganism is part of the whole religion of Islam.

    In other words, ancient paganism makes up much of Islam. Therefore Islam is a hoax.

    • Lilith Wept says

      Jun 10, 2020 at 5:14 pm

      Walter, if you want an exellent dissection of islam and how it is false, read “ Prophet of Doom” by Craig Winn. Google it, it’s available as an online e book . There’s a comparison of The Koran to Mein Kampf, Muhammed to Hitler also. The book is written by a Christian with a Christian slant , FYI.

  5. tim gallagher says

    Jun 9, 2020 at 5:48 pm

    What an appalling, totally barbaric, completely inhuman ideology Islam is. It is always on the side of evil and total barbarity. This attitude towards this murderous piece of garbage who murdered his daughter is just one of millions of examples. islam , with its 7th century Arab, throwback view of how life should be lived, is disgusting and should have become extinct ages ago. It should be in history’s garbage bin along with the old Aztec religion and other such hideous, completely uncivilised belief systems.

  6. mortimer says

    Jun 9, 2020 at 6:18 pm

    Two experts on Sharia law agree! Mousa Ghazanfarabadi and Robert Spencer agree that Sharia law permits honor-killing.

    Sharia law manual Reliance of the Traveller o1.2

    “The following are not subject to retaliation:
    -3- (meaning: killing an apostate from Islam is without consequences); -4- a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring. RoT o1.2
    and “There is no indemnity obligatory for killing a non-Muslim (harbi) at war with Muslims.” -RoT, o4.17, p.593.

    RoT o5.4 (O: There is no expiation for killing someone who has left Islam, a highwayman (def: o15). or a convicted married adulterer, even when someone besides the caliph kills him.)

    • James Lincoln says

      Jun 10, 2020 at 9:03 am

      I have a question for Jihad Watch readers:

      Does anyone know how the Sharia law manual “Reliance of the Traveller” got its name?

      And what is its meaning?

      • Michael Copeland says

        Jun 10, 2020 at 10:38 am

        As a guess, probably “Reliable Handbook for the Traveller through Life, and Tools for the Worshipper” (the latter part being the rest of its full title).
        Alternatively it is a deliberately opaque title to disguise it from infidels.

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 11, 2020 at 9:45 pm

          Thank you, Michael.

  7. don vito says

    Jun 9, 2020 at 8:40 pm

    This is just heart rendering, the father loves a fake prophet more than his live daughter.

    • James Lincoln says

      Jun 9, 2020 at 9:25 pm

      Well put, don vito…

      • Lilith Wept says

        Jun 10, 2020 at 6:06 pm

        A quote attributed to Golda Meir “ When Arabs love their children more than they hate Jews, we will have peace”
        Never happen . Because of what the Koran says about loving Muhammed more than your father and mother, and the “do good prevent evil” Koranic command, where if anyone, a relative violates Allah’s laws,you should do good and prevent evil by punishing him according to Allah’s law( kill, stone, cut off body part, flog etc) this serves as an example to keep,others in line.
        This destroys the family unit, the building block of society, and is like the Nazi children informing on their parents.
        This is why Islamic society’s are self policing as far as Sharia laws are concerned, law, the few that are devout police and comtrol those that aren’t , by the threat of barbaric punishment.
        This is why the “moderate moslems” in America will just stand by and alow the more devout and “extreme” to take over,and implement Sharia in America, fear is a powerful motivator .

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 11, 2020 at 9:46 pm

          +1

  8. gravenimage says

    Jun 9, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    Iran: Muslim cleric says father who beheaded daughter can’t be executed “because it’s against Islamic law”
    ………………

    This is horrifying, but also mainstream Islam.

    A British-Saudi girl who had been kidnapped by her father and regularly viciously beaten was able to slip out one day and went to the police–they told her that her father had every right to beat her to death if he wanted to. She was finally able to flee back to the UK and freedom, but no thanks to the Muslim police.

  9. Michael Copeland says

    Jun 10, 2020 at 3:45 am

    “A father should kill his erring daughter,
    Control is supreme: the sanction — slaughter.”

    From “Easy Guide to Sharia Law”
    https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/04/easy-guide-to-sharia-law/

  10. Sabrina says

    Jun 10, 2020 at 10:08 am

    Thats a no brainer. Normal humans protect there childeren, they love them more than EANYTHING.
    So…. are “they” human?

  11. Love of Lucifer 35 says

    Jun 10, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    Where is the leftards ?
    #childlifesmatter

    • Miguel Ángel says

      Jun 11, 2020 at 12:29 pm

      Exactamente, my first thought. But they’re too busy not condoning statues being defaced from Glasgow to London and busier talking about street names to rename. Racism comes from the inability to see another person side and intolerance. They are intolerant to anything that is asked or raised to them. They are destroying our freedoms these leftards

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