“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4)
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.
“Egypt man who killed sister in ‘honour killing’ given meagre 5-year sentence,” Middle East Monitor, March 17, 2021 (thanks to Henry):
A man identified as Karim A.S has been sentenced to prison for five years after killing his sister in an honour killing after “doubting her behaviour.”
Cairo Criminal Court heard that Karim deliberately killed his sister, Suad, by stabbing her in the neck and then trapping her in the bathroom when she tried to escape.
The length of the sentence has stirred anger on social media since even political prisoners have spent similar periods of time on remand in Egyptian prisons.
In February, Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein was released after more than four years on pretrial detention.
Women’s rights advocates are calling on authorities to issue tougher penalties for perpetrators of gender-based violence in Egypt – the absence of tough penalties is emboldening them, people believe.
Weak sentences are commonly handed out to male relatives who murder their female relatives with judges viewing such cases with leniency.
In March last year, the international women’s rights organisation Equality Now called on Egypt to repeal and amend Article 237 of the penal code which allows men to kill their wives on discovering them in the act of adultery and to receive a lesser punishment than other types of murder.
In contrast, a woman who kills her husband would be given a full sentence.
Karim’s sentencing follows an honour killing several days ago carried out by a landlord, neighbour and doorman who broke into the apartment of a 34-year-old female doctor in the Al Sallam neighbourhood, assaulted her and pushed her off a balcony after she invited a male colleague into her apartment….
mortimer says
Don’t Western people know yet?
Islam is a religion of knife-carrying vigilantes who murder blasphemers and apostates. Why is this learning curve so difficult … so long? Robert Spencer has quoted the relevant verses above.
Sharia law authorizes individual Muslims to take the law into their own hands to suppress blasphemers and apostates who dare to leave Islam.
Islam is a backward Bronze-Age death cult. It can never be updated or modernized. Islam must simply be abandoned or else World War III is inevitable.
Vigilantism is normative Islam, rather than an aberration.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, the learning curve is so long because too many Infidels don’t *want* to understand that Islam is a threat.
Andrew Blackadder says
Something is seriously wrong with a faith that is so shallow that it cannot deal with anybody disagreeing with it in any civilized manner, or whom wishes to leave it, even though a religion is imposed upon a baby without its permission, and so needs no permission to leave it, however islam in its version of compassion feels the need to actualy kill the person, while at the same time claiming to be a religion of peace.
Its as if I have dropped into an alternative universe when I read the words and beliefs of some of these muslims as they cannot seem to see the contradictions in their own heads, maybe those turbans are way too tight..
islam is satan in disguise.
notnolib says
When I hear about muslims behaving as muslims towards other muslims, I giggle-snort.
gravenimage says
A religion that teaches that murdering loved ones is OK will not hesitate to kill you, too.
Giacomo Latta says
”an honour killing several days ago carried out by a landlord, neighbour and doorman who broke into the apartment of a 34-year-old female doctor in the Al Sallam neighbourhood, assaulted her and pushed her off a balcony”
Clearly they were seeking to right the dishonour of not having any sisters.
OLD GUY says
Hell I’am surprised he even went to prison. Honor killing of wives and daughters seems to usually go unpunished in most muslim countries.
Trevor Loughlin says
I am an atheist. But if you wanted to interpret fate in terms of religion, the state of Israel could be seen as divine punishment for those who destroy his finest work (woman) in the name of honour. Both the Quran (the ORIGINAL Satanic Verses), the so-called Palestinian authority and even the Palestinian civilians who vote for them are in a state of sin. The have the blood if innocent young women on their hands.
So the next time Israel engages in collective punishment in vengeance for suicide bombings and other atrocities no one has the right to complain. This degenerate cultural practice is dysgenic. It selects out independent, intelligent and attractive women for murder for defying their sexual psychopath males. The remaining females end up with racial deformities and low IQ. A greater Israel needs to be established to replace these mutants with humans, and the worst examples should be sterilized to stop them breeding more girl children for human sacrifice. The Islamic nation has basically diverged into a new human species similar to insects with a short lifespan and high reproductive rate, and one that is highly destructive and parasitic to any advanced species near it. This needs to change, it is after all a CHILD PROTECTION issue. I am against the excesses and scandal of forced adoption in the UK but bringing up a child under Islamic teaching SHOULD be grounds for forced adoption. I personally know an Anglo-Pakistani girl who lived with her mother and white stepfather. Her original Pakistani father (who they fled) was planning FGM for her and was a religious misogynist nutcase. This girl at my workplace was the life and soul of the party. The thought that she might have ended up destroyed through religious abuse under other circumstances makes me seethe with anger. I am a Guardian reading “right on” left-wing liberal and can’t believe I am saying these things but to save the nice liberal society we have in the West some harsh measures will be needed, even if it involves fascist or communist methods. Allowing Islam in the West is like introducing brutal chimpanzees into a group of loving hippy Bonobo’s. It will not end well.
gravenimage says
Egypt: Muslim stabs his sister in neck, murders her in honor killing, gets five years in prison
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Grotesque miscarriage of justice–this poor woman.
But in much of the Muslim world he would not have been sentenced at all.