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.”
“Pakistani couple arrested in Spain over daughter’s ‘honour killing,'” Express Tribune, October 21, 2022:
Police in Spain said on Friday that they have arrested a Pakistani couple suspected of having killed their own daughter in Pakistan because she got married without their approval.
Pakistani authorities issued an international arrest warrant for the couple after the killing committed in April 2020, Spain’s National Police said in a statement.
Investigators believe the couple “kidnapped and then murdered in Pakistan their own daughter because she married a person they did not like,” the statement added.
The woman’s husband reported what happened to Pakistani authorities, who issued a warrant for the couple, who had fled to Spain, a police spokeswoman said.
Spanish police arrested the man, 67, and woman, 51, on Saturday near their home in Logrono, the capital of the northern wine-producing region of La Rioja, acting on a tip from Pakistani authorities that they were now living there.
The couple then appeared before Spain’s National court which ordered that they be held in prison until they are deported to Pakistan.
They reportedly ran a shop offering phone and internet services in the centre of Logrono. About 100,000 Pakistanis live in Spain, according to national statistics institute INE.
Swathes of Pakistani society still operate according to strict codes of “honour” that radically undermine women’s rights….
Michael Copeland says
“Swathes of Pakistani society still operate according to strict codes of “honour””.
It is misleading to write “still”, as if it is assumed that such practices are largely obsolete. They are not. Further, they are part of Islamic law, which has no punishment for a parent who kills his offspring.
It is Islam that radically undermines women’s rights. They hardly have any.
somehistory says
these scum must make a bundle of money off their business….to travel to pakistan, murder their daughter, then flee back to Spain as if they will be home free.
Is the husband…now the widower…a mozlum? How else would he actually get the authorities to issue an arrest warrant?
And mozlums such as these vermin who murdered their own child…grown woman, yes, but their child…don’t have any honor. It’s cold-bloodied sacrifice to satan.
they will “reap as they have sown”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The news in this story is Pakistan trying to arrest a couple for an honor killing. Whatever happened to the islamic republic? The main good news is that this couple will be deported since Pakistan is the one who asked for it