Was this an honor killing? Whether it was or wasn’t, would it have been simply responsible journalism to report on the fact, so that people could be informed accordingly about what exactly is going on here?
Albania is nearly 60% Muslim. 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.”
“Woman stabbed to death by her partner, she was asking her son for help on the phone,” translated from “Donna uccisa a coltellate dal compagno, lei stava chiedendo aiuto al figlio al telefono,” L’Unione Sarda, March 30, 2023:
Yet another feminicide. This time in Terni, where a woman was stabbed to death in a house in via del Crociere, in the Borgo Rivo area.
The crime occurred at the height of a dispute that broke out with her husband. The victim is a woman of Albanian nationality around 60 years old.
The man was stopped by the police, who arrived at the scene with the mobile team, the scientific team and the flying team.
The investigations to reconstruct what happened are coordinated by the Prosecutor of Terni.
According to an initial reconstruction of the incident, the woman was murdered while she, on her phone, was desperately asking for help from her 25-year-old son who was at work outside the city: “Dad wants to kill me,” she told him. The young man himself raised the alarm, sending the policemen to the house when unfortunately the crime had already been committed.
BTeboe says
Also without retaliatory obligation is the killing of infidels. The more the merrier. And aren’t those some great family values that allows you to kill your family members without consequence?
gravenimage says
Yes–orthodox Islam.
somehistory says
At least the poor woman could trust her son to help; and he tried to come through for her.
The murderous slime should have to see a long dirt nap in his near future.
gravenimage says
I was thinking the same, Somehistory. In many Muslim families, the son would be in on the plot to kill her.
dexterity says
Not only justified by the Quran, the Albanians have a tradition of retaliation, they even have a manual (!) on how to perform some executions.
These people are extremely dangerous, having intricate networks and make lots of money from drug dealing. They exude confidence but lack tremendous clarity.
gravenimage says
Italy: Albanian woman murdered by her husband as she asks son for help on phone — ‘Dad wants to kill me’
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Just horrifying. But killing those deemed “insufficiently Islamic”–in this case, probably not sufficiently subservient–is as Islamic as is murdering Infidels. Escaping Dar-al-Islam was not enough, because the killer brought his Islam with him t civilized Italy.