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.” In Iran, according to the New York Times, the legal system “treats parents who murder their children with relative leniency, as the maximum sentence for the crime is only ten years.”
“Girl is dragged to an abandoned house and shot by her tribe in ‘honour killing’ after running off with her lover and refusing to marry her cousin in Syria,” by Rachael Bunyan, MailOnline, July 6, 2021:
A girl was dragged to an abandoned house and shot by her tribe in a so-called ‘honour killing’ after she tried to run away with her lover and refused to marry her cousin in Syria.
A video circulated online shows the young woman, who has been identified as 18-year-old Eida Al-Hamoudi Al-Saeedo, being shot in a desolate village on the outskirts of the northeastern Syrian city of Al-Hasakah.
Eida had tried to run away with her lover but her family and tribe followed her before capturing her, reports Akhbaralaan.net.
The horrific footage shows Eida being dragged by a group of three men who were carrying guns while she screams for help.
The video then pans to other men who are stood by a wall of the abandoned house before three shots can be heard.
The footage then shows Eida lying on the ground and she appears to be struggling to get up, before one man points a gun at her and shoots her dead. The woman’s body is covered with a red blanket by the tribesmen.
Just days after the video of Eida’s murder emerged on social media, a 16-year-old girl was strangled to death by her father in another ‘honour killing’ after she was raped by a relative.
Eida, who is from the city of Al-Hasakah, had been taken to an abandoned house and her father and brother, along with other men from the Al-Sharabain tribe murdered her, reports Syrian news site Alarabiya.
Her family and tribe then shot her in an ‘honor killing’ for falling in love with a young man and refusing to marry her cousin, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
The young man had proposed to her but Eida’s family had prohibited the marriage because he was from a different clan.
After the ‘honour killing’, Eida’s family published the video on social media ‘in order to announce cleansing the shame according to their tribal beliefs’, the SOHR said in a statement….
CogitoErgoSum says
Here’s another reason I hope there is life after death. The first reason is to find out the truth about all of life’s mysteries. Reason number two is so I can know that people who commit crimes such as this against the helpless and the innocent will get the punishment they deserve. People who do stuff like this should NOT be able to get away with it.
Mount Zion says
They will not get away with it , believe me . “For one time it is appointed for people to die and then the judgement”.
rooare says
If Jesus rose from the dead, and the evidence is overwhelming that He did, then everything He said is of paramount importance and true. Therefore there is a real heaven and a real hell.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, and even though that young girl may not have been baptized or known Jesus in this life I can’t help but think that she has now found the love that she was so desperately trying to find outside her family. I can not imagine Jesus in any way refusing to welcome that girl into His own family even though she may not have known Him in this life. I wonder if the Muslims believe she is now burning in Hell.
william says
Overwhelming evidence? you are hilarious
gravenimage says
Do you have a problem with this girl being murdered? Not so you say…
Infidel says
As a Hindu, I believe that there is life after death, and that those thugs will be reborn to be similarly victimized in their next life. She may not be reborn to be the one that punishes them, but they’ll be punished, no matter what!
CogitoErgoSum says
I don’t know much about Hinduism but I guess the goal is to reach perfection as it is with Christianity. What’s the goal in Islam – to fight non-Muslims on Earth and then have endless orgies in Heaven? That just seems stupid to me.
Infidel says
The goal of any Hindu ideally would be to live a sin-free life so that one wouldn’t have to be reborn to compensate for any of those wrongs. One who successfully pulls it off gains salvations, and ends up eternally w/ Shiva or Vishnu, whoever one was devoted to
CogitoErgoSum says
Well, that sounds familiar.
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
Rod Serling had a few episodes in the original TV series that, very very loosely, makes me think of Hinduism.
One of them was called “A Quality of Mercy” where a WW2 U.S. Army Lieut. sees a battle through the eyes of a Japanese officer…
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734548/?ref_=ttep_ep15
Michael Copeland says
“….not subject to retaliation” [the penalty for killing]…..
A father or mother …. for killing their offspring…”
Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller”, o1.2(4)
gravenimage says
Spot on, MIchael. And this is the most relied upon book of Sunni jurisprudence.
Walter Sieruk says
Islam ,as seen above, is a heartless and murderous religion that contains no love at all
That wicked religion is reflected by the brutal callous heartless death inflecting behavior by many of its followers.
gravenimage says
Syria: Muslim family murders teen girl after she tried to run away with her lover and refused to marry her cousin
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Horrifying–this *poor girl*. There is no love in Islam.
And it was the girl’s *whole tribe* who persued and murdered her. So much for the claim that Honor Killings are just perpetrated by individual criminals.
Syria has supposedly removed the legal exception for “Honor Killings”–but in reality, these cases are dealt with with kid gloves if they are prosecuted at all.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2009/07/28/syria-no-exceptions-honor-killings
More:
Just days after the video of Eida’s murder emerged on social media, a 16-year-old girl was strangled to death by her father in another ‘honour killing’ after she was raped by a relative.
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Even worse, if possible. I have often noted that girls are often murdered–in “Honor Killings” or being stoned to death–because they are rape victims.
God, I hate Islam.
Infidel says
This event happened in north east Syria, either under Kurdish or Turkish control. But it’s what all of Syria – including Damascus or Ladakiya – would have looked like had the Assad regime been overthrown by the US backed ‘rebels’, including the Kurds
max dugan says
and that boys and girls is the religion your follow liberal socialist americans is fighting to keep from being thrown out, while they tell you they can show pornographic movies to your six year old. Leftists have to be removed, period.
Infidel says
Yeah, the people who hate every other religion – be it Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism et al have no qualms letting islamic laws override every one of their pet issues, be it women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, BIPOC rights, animal rights and so on. Both Leftists and muslims need to be eradicated from this world, peacefully if possible, but otherwise if necessary
Giacomo Latta says
”provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing”
The fact that a prison term of any length shows that even the Syrian government, like other muslim-oriented governments, believes that honour-killing is somewhat offensive. So why the ridiculously light sentences? They must be offloading the judgement of who is dishonourable to parents and grandparents. Not surprising for a death cult.
Goofy says
In the perspective of the so-called religion if Islam honour killings are not unlikely to be the most honourable aspect of Muslim life.
It is beyond me that Islam is recognised as a religion as numerous commands of Islam violate the legislation of civilised nations as well as human rights and the standards for war crimes.
gravenimage says
Goofy, Islam is a religion by all definition. Your idea that the definition of religion is that it is benignant is mistaken. There have been evil religions before.