An indelible detail leaps out from this report: “In the region, there is a history of men being accused of killing women or girls perceived to have brought shame to a family or tribe being given token sentences, or in other cases, escaping justice entirely.”
Now, why is that? Her brother said he killed her because she “brought shame and dishonour upon the family.”
That is reminiscent of a strange story in the Qur’an. A mysterious figure, known as Khidr in Islamic tradition, kills a boy in an apparently random and gratuitous attack. He then explains: “And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. So we intended that their Lord should substitute for them one better than him in purity and nearer to mercy.” (18:80-81)
And 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).
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.
“Female YPJ fighter in Syria allegedly murdered by relatives in ‘honor’ killing,” by Wladimir van Wilgenburg, Kurdistan 24, September 3, 2020:
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Monday reported that a member of the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) was killed by her brother in the Syrian town of Darbasiyyah, located near the Turkish border.
One source claimed that her brother said he killed her because she “brought shame and dishonour upon the family.”
In the region, there is a history of men being accused of killing women or girls perceived to have brought shame to a family or tribe being given token sentences, or in other cases, escaping justice entirely.
Even though such acts are technically illegal in Syria, Iraq, and other nearby countries, their prosecution, in practice, is sometimes dealt with as a “family” matter and kept out of the courts.
In other cases, the murders are made to look like suicides.
A source from Kongra-Star in Darbasiyyah, a confederation of women’s organizations, told Kurdistan 24 that the woman was known as Beritan, had lived with her family in the town until she told them she had joined the YPJ. According to the source, her father and step-siblings were not pleased with her decision. After her two stepbrothers tried to force her to go with them to go to Hasakah instead and she refused, one of them allegedly shot and killed her.
The source added that the family members are ethnic Arabs, remarking, “As you know, joining YPJ is not something uncommon among the Arab community.”
An official Kongra-Star statement read, “Violence against women is one of the most common violations of human rights, but most of these violations are not reported because of the absence of penalty.”
“We, as women’s movement, call on all the women, civil rights institutions and the civic society institutions to take a rapid initiative to stop these crimes and not to be slow in holding the criminal accountable and applying the heaviest penalty so we can see that justice is done.”
Thomas McClure, a Syria-based researcher at the Rojava Information Center, told Kurdistan 24 that the YPJ, established in 2013, is known the world over for their efforts to establish a new form of autonomous, female-led democracy in northeastern Syria….
Moreover, he added that, although the local Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) promotes and enshrines women’s rights into their laws, females living in areas under their control “continue to face major violence and oppression in the family home.”…
mortimer says
The Koran says that Muslims may murder their rebellious, non-practicing, Muslim children so that Allah may replace them with FANATICAL Muslim children.
– K.18.65 permits the killing of one’s children and grandchildren and Sharia law codifies such HONOR KILLINGS: (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.)
Note: Rebellious, non-practicing Muslim children are considered to be apostates from Islam. Mohammed required apostates to be killed.
J Morgan says
Such a deep betrayal of one’s own flesh and blood children and grandchildren. I guess following Allah’s example of deep betrayal of his spiritual children who follow religiously this murder cult. Allah is, by Mo’s example – cruel, has no mercy and he preys on the most vulnerable.
FYI says
“oh ye who believe!Choose not your fathers nor your brethren for friends if they take pleasure in disbelief rather than faith.Whoso of you taketh them for friends,such are wrong doers”
koran 9 v 23
So,an ex-muslim for example{ a ‘murtad’} can be ostracized.
And to be friends with an ex-muslim makes a muslim a ‘wrong doer’.
What a depraved god ‘allah’ is and how perverse and wicked is the koran!
islam has no Golden Rule,no concept of ‘Love thy neighbor'{2nd Chief commandment Lev19:17-18 found in Judaism and Christianity} and no concept of humans being made in the spiritual image of God{Genesis 1:27}
islam has no concept of the Exodus 20 Decalogue either:no concept of ‘honor your father and your mother’ you notice{and by extension,your own family}
The koran says a muslim who is friends with a non-muslim is an infidel{koran 5:51} and that non-muslims are inferior to muslims{koran 98:6}
Dude says
The inbred idiot idea of philosophical debate.
gravenimage says
Syria: Brother of Women’s Protection Units fighter murders her because she ‘brought shame and dishonor upon family’
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So often, the existence of the YPJ is brought up to (supposedly) show that women in Syria, or Kurdistan, are equal to men. Clearly this is not the case.
saturnine says
Hassan Radwan shows the story that Robert mentions of the boy murdered by Khidr raises profound questions about the god of Islam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlp2rajAgzw
Giacomo Latta says
Logic and Islam; oil and water.
gravenimage says
Yes–a *deeply* disturbing story.
Walter Sieruk says
The brutal ,cruel, malice-filled and murderous Islamic tradition that is so very inappropriately called “honor killing” by many Muslims is one of the many malicious and deadly fruits of Islam .
Jesus taught “By their fruits you will recognize them.” Matthew 7:20. [N.I.V.]
Christopher Watson says
Why are these filthy animals still allowed into Europe. We would not have allowed COVID into Europe so why do we allow a ‘disease’ which is far worse.
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 !
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 Afghanistan and 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.]
Walter Sieruk says
That heinously evil, brutal vicious violent and murderous Islamic tradition which is so very inappropriately called,,in the Muslim world, called “honor killing.”
The very term for that wicked monstrous affront all that is good decent and right is absurd.
For calling such a heinous abomination of wicked action an “honor killing” is just like scrapping off the label o fa jar of cyanide that reads “Danger Poison” and replacing it with another label that reads “Apple Juice.”
Changing the label of the jar doesn’t ,in any way, change , the dangerous and deadly substance contained in that jar.
Likewise ,calling a brutal cruel vicious malicious action of evil by the better sounding term doesn’t change that it’s totally evil
tiredofstupid says
wouldn’t it be nice if the YPJ went and killed the brother???
gravenimage says
I would not count on *that* happening.
OLD GUY says
Dishonor results in murder from the most dishonorable religious belief in the world. Islam is the religion and belief of the cave man.