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.”
“‘I slaughtered her’: Woman from Kuseife is killed, brother said to confess,” Times of Israel, April 16, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A 26-year-old woman from the Bedouin town of Kuseife in southern Israel was killed early Sunday morning, with police arresting her brother after he confessed.
The victim was later named as Azhar Abu Rabia.
Her throat was slit alongside other signs of violence. She was brought to a medical station in Arad operated by the Magen David Adom ambulance service, where staff pronounced her dead.
Her 28-year-old brother brought her to the station, according to Hebrew media, and told people there: “I slaughtered her.”
The woman’s brother then went to the police station in Arad, where he was arrested and taken for questioning.
He is said to have admitted to killing his sister, and is cooperating with the police investigation, the Kan public broadcaster said.
Police officers opened a murder investigation into what they said was likely a so-called “honor killing,” and will apply for an extension to the suspect’s detention at the Beersheba Magistrate’s Court on Sunday afternoon.
Abu Rabia, who in the weeks leading up to her death had reportedly been living at her parents’ home, wanted to visit her children, but was prevented from doing so by her brother, the Ynet news site reported.
An argument broke out between the two, leading to the suspected murder, according to the report, which cited testimony from local residents.
She was the 10th woman killed by someone known to her since the start of the year.
According to the Israel Observatory on Femicide, in 2022, 24 women were “murdered because they were women,” a 50 percent rise over the 16 such murders recorded in 2021. Activists have long complained that not enough is done to prevent violence against women in Israel, particularly in cases known to the authorities….
Walter Siieruk says
That malicious and brutal cruel murderous action that is unfittingly called “honor killing” is an affront to all that is actually just, good, humane and right.
Therefore, 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” which is permitted under Sharia law.
Be that vicious murderous action take place in Israel , Afghanistan and Pakistan, in any other Islamic country and now even some Western nations, as in this incident of murder in Italy.
About the topic of Islamic violence which, something, takes the form of the brutal cruel vicious and murderous action that is so inappropriately 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
The former Muslim who is now a Christian ,Annie Cyrus, spoke of the evil brutal cruel and murderous Muslim action which they so very inappropriately call “honor killing. It’s unjust , unfair and an affront to real justice and completely outrageous to punish the innocent victim, in any way, let alone by death , who was raped and not the rapist , who is indeed the guilt ,evil and vile criminal. Well openly claim, at least in lip service, to respect the Bible. So in the Bible in Proverbs 17:15 it reveals “The Lord hates two things: punishing the innocent and letting the guilty go free.” [E.R.V]
Linde B. says
Islam is barbaric. Islam is evil. It is the religion of Satan the devil. How come so many millions do not see it as the religion of Satan the devil? 😈
PRCS says
Because it isn’t.
Like all religions, it’s a man-made belief.
In the case of Islam: an awful religion.
Hank says
Your question should probably be “How come so many non-Muslim host countries and their politicians don’t see the violent danger, trickery and usurping nature of Islam, and even import, accomodate, spread and forward it?”
Another similar question would be “How come King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella back in 1492 understood the dangers of Islam and completely expelled it from Spain when it is not understood today in our super modern times?
cornelius says
Just a side-note here….
Robert links to a study that purports to show that 91% of the world’s honor killings are committed by Muslims. The author of the study is the courageous academic Phyllis Chesler.
The study is flawed on at least one important level….it’s limitation to a select set of countries. Now there’s every possibility that if the study had encompassed every country in the world, it would have produced similar results. My point is not the legitimacy of the study, my point is that in trying to document the issue of honor killings, Robert has to refer to an incomplete study done 13 years ago.
Why?
In an era when Women’s studies and Feminist studies exist on almost every university campus in the Western world, why is there such a dearth of studies about honor crimes and the cultural factors that contribute to them?
In my mind, the answer is obvious: Such studies would reflect poorly on the Islamic realm and its treatment of women. And Lord knows, we can’t have that. So instead, the universities employ that old, fallacious axiom….’ignorance is bliss’.
OLD GUY says
The answer might be that Saudi Arabia and Qatar along with other muslim countries are major contributors to our Colleges and Universities endowment funds. Not only do we have women’s studies and Feminist studies on campus, we also have Muslim/Islamic student unions and studies. It’s all about the MONEY.
cornelius says
You certainly have a point….but I believe it runs far deeper than that. The reluctance to engage in any critical analysis of Islamic culture in academia is in my mind primarily ideological. Muslims have effectively insinuated themselves into the sub-set of protected classes that the universities protect (coddle) at all costs. I strongly suspect that even in the absence of Gulf largess, the impulse for apologetics on all things Islam would be the same.
somehistory says
Just look who is going to speak about terrorism and Israeli victims.
“Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., will be giving a video speech as an introductory speaker for a U.S. government-backed religious freedom event on Israel’s memorial day for fallen soldiers and terror victims.
Omar, who has a history of making comments targeting Israel, is slated to speak at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s (USCIRF) event commemorating Yom Hazikaron. Her name had previously been removed from the event’s listed speakers.
Yom Hazikaron is an Israeli holiday commemorating fallen soldiers and the victims of terrorist attacks in the Jewish nation.”
“Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., an outspoken critic of Omar, was also listed as a speaker but will now be providing video remarks instead of speaking at the even”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ilhan-omar-to-speak-at-us-religious-freedom-event-on-israel-fallen-soldiers-terror-victims-memorial-day/ar-AA1a0QyT?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=0ea90b5cb9ee4f089d3ff6f12a2a89c6&ei=16