In many other honor killing cases, Muslim women have been murdered for being too “Westernized.” It’s likely that in this case also, the family didn’t want Sajida Tasneem to return to Australia for that reason. Her disobedience and desire to live among the infidels were signs of her departure from Islam, and the honor of the family had to be cleansed.
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.”
“Pakistan-origin Australian woman murdered with an axe by her father-in-law in Sargodha while her father watched,” OpIndia, June 21, 2022:
A Pakistan-origin Australian woman named Sajida Tasneem was brutally hacked to death by her father-in-law, Mukhtar Ahmad in Karachi, Pakistan. Tasneem was allegedly gagged and then hit on the head with an axe, leading to her death. The incident reportedly occurred on June 11 at the home she shared with her in-laws near the city of Sargodha in Pakistan. Her father Sher Muhammad Khan was a witness to the brutal act.
Mukhtar Ahmed, according to reports, was enraged by the prospect of Sajida Tasneem, an engineer by profession, returning to Australia with her children. He is said to have killed her after the two got into an argument about the same.
Sher Muhammad Khan, Tasneem’s father, who was a witness to the incident, told The Guardian, that his daughter’s father-in-law Mukhtar Ahmad had taken away Tasneem’s passport after the latter got into an argument with him about her desire to relocate back to Australia to give her children a better education. Ahmed in a fit of rage first gagged her with a piece of cloth and then attacked her with an axe. Tasneem fell to the ground and died in front of her own father.
She Muhammad Khan told the police that Tasneem’s husband, Ayub Ahmed, forced her to travel to Pakistan with her three children from their home in Perth, Australia. After she reached Pakistan, Ayub Ahmed himself returned to Australia. Tasneem too expressed her desire to her father-in-law to return to Australia with her children.
Sher Muhammad Khan said that on the day of the incident when he arrived at his daughter’s house in Karachi’s Sargodha district at around 1.45 pm, he heard Ahmad abusing and shouting at Tasneem on the first floor. When he went upstairs, he found the duo in the bathroom. His daughter’s mouth was gagged and the father-in-law Mukhtar Ahmad was repeatedly attacking her. Ahmed also threatened to kill Khan if he tried to intervene. “I feared for our lives and did not move,” recalled Khan adding that Ahmad then hit Tasneem on the head with an axe, after which she died at the scene.
After Tasneem fell to the ground and died on spot, Ahmed quickly fled the crime scene. Sher Muhammad Khan immediately called the local Superior Town Police Station to report about the crime. Based on his complaint the police lodged an FIR and started investigating the case.
The Karachi police, meanwhile, have arrested Mukhtar Ahmed and also recovered the axe which he used to kill his daughter-in-law. Tasneem’s mother-in-law, Fatima Bibi, and two other relatives who are also suspects in the case remain at large….
BTeboe says
I wonder what this does to the children? Her husband had already returned, why didn’t he take the whole family? I think they just like to kill. Blood lust.
gravenimage says
The husband may not have realized his wife was in danger from his family. Hard to tell from this.
somehistory says
children of the devil…beginning with cain who murdered his brother out of jealousy, and continuing on through this very day with slime such as this mozlum creep…murdering family members.
he probably had designs on selling his grandchildren to those lusting after young children. or he wanted his daughter-in-law to slave in the household for him and the other in-laws. Maybe both.
this seems a lot like the woman in the U.S. who was enslaved by her mother-in-law and her sons after her own husband left her and the children. they were from pakistan too. that young woman was rescued, unlike what happened with this woman.
and why could not her father intervene? there isn’t any love in islam, so it has a zero chance of causing a mozlum to risk his own life for the benefit of another person.
rubiconcrest says
The husband forced his wife to return to Pakistan with the children and probably explained the situation of his wife’s westernization to his father to do what he knew he would not get away with in Australia.
somehistory says
Sounds reasonable. Probably decided she was not mozlum enough, but didn’t want to spend his life locked away by the LE in Australia.
Keith O says
That’s pretty much the story.
From the reports on the news here it seems the husband took them back to Shitistan because his wife had more degrees than he did and was earning more money, which he found insulting.
So he took her and the kids home so he could control her.
somehistory says
thanks for that. It’s the same old story that has grown very, very tiresome.
tim gallagher says
I didn’t hear that detail about this murder, Keith O. I sort of half heard a radio report about the woman having been murdered. Yeah, I can imagine this knuckle dragger of a husband being annoyed that his wife, a mere woman, might be more educated than him. I like your name for Pakistan. I think I will call it Shitistan from now on. Seems to be the perfect name for that loathsome country. It seems to be knuckle dragger central, an absolute sewer of a country.
gravenimage says
Could be–extra horrifying if so.
tim gallagher says
An appalling situation with the Muslim knuckle dragger murdering his daughter in law. So I suppose that the three children will now live a horrible, backward life in that shit hole Pakistan. And the husband is off in Australia, fouling up that country, having deserted his children and wife, and probably now having moved onto a new wife or girlfriend in the usual degenerate Muslim way, much like their totally degenerate prophet, the imaginary creature, Muhammad. What a blunder it was for this now dead woman to have left Australia and gone to Pakistan. But, of course, she would have had no choice in the usual way for Muslim women. Since she apparently had at least some degree of westernised ideas, she might have even been a good citizen of Australia and her children also may have been decent citizens for Australia. I was quite surprised when I heard a mention of this murder on the radio here in Australia and thought, well, that’s weird to mention just another Muslim honour killing,(there are so many) but now I see that there was a connection to Australia and that’s why it would have been reported.
Wellington says
With you again, tim. How I wish an almost infinite number of non-Muslim people in the West were by now with you and me on this “matter.”
Alas, this is not the case, and the fault, of course, lies much with Islam itself but even more with pathetic and continued non-Muslim apologists for Islam.
What a strange age we live in. I know of none stranger. Ever.
tim gallagher says
Yes, Wellington, I agree that we are living in strange times alright. Like you, I wish that almost everyone had woken up to islam’s barbarity by now. Of course, we’ll never get everybody to wake up but the vast number of knuckle heads that still get around thinking that islam is quite benevolent is very annoying.
Eleanor says
I hadn’t heard of this case, and it is shocking. It is probable that the husband possibly arranged this murder with his father, as rubiconcrest has said in their comment above. What are the chances of the Australian police in Perth WA, investigating this man in connection with this crime in Pakistan? I also think there is much more to this story, and that, he, the husband, probably had another woman on the side.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslim murders his daughter-in-law as her father watched; she wanted to go to Australia
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*Just horrifying*–this poor woman. And what happens to the children now? Will they be raised by their mother’s killer?
God, I hate Islam.
CheckBurry says
Utterly sick inhumans
Kundan says
I think, being a true devout Muslim, her husband also wanted her to be killed. If not, then why didn’t he take her and their children along with him when he returned? Europe should pass a law like Indian NRC and dump all of these Muslums somewhere else. Otherwise, Europe’s future will be the same as the ancient Islamic barbaric Arabia.