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.
“Man kills sister for ‘honour’ in Karachi’s Clifton area,” by Imtiaz Ali, Dawn, August 8, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A man shot and killed his sister for “honour” in the Clifton area of Karachi on Saturday, police officials said.
They said the suspect, Hasnain Qamar, shot his 19-year-old sister, Noorul Huda Shah, in the city’s Marine Drive area, located in Clifton Block 2….
Police said they had detained the suspect and recovered the weapon used in the crime. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) South Sheeraz Nazeer told Dawn.com that Qamar “confessed to killing his sister for honour”….
Qamar claimed his sister used to talk to a man in the neighbourhood and he had “stopped her time and again”.
He said when his younger brother told him today (Saturday) about their sister’s “constant interactions [with the boy], he took out his gun and shot her in the head”. She died on the spot, he said.