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.”
“Man suspected of murdering his wife to ‘preserve honor,'” translated from “Man misstänks ha mördat sin fru för att ‘bevara heder,’” by Thea Mossige-Norheim, Expressen, April 21, 2023:
The woman in her 30s is suspected of having been murdered in front of her children – with about 30 stab wounds.
The purpose was to preserve the family’s honor, according to the prosecutor.
The preliminary investigation also contains information that the woman wanted to file for divorce before the crime.
“That she would be killed in her own home, that idea just didn’t exist,” the woman’s brother has previously said.
It was on October 6 that the woman in her 30s was found badly injured in the home in Motala. She was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Now her husband, who is in his 50s, is charged with murder.
He is suspected of having murdered his wife through about 30 stab and cut wounds all over her body.
That in front of their two common sons.
“The man and woman were married and had two children together who witnessed the incident. That’s why I’m also charging the man with two cases of serious child welfare violations,” says senior prosecutor Malin Axelsson.
Charges have also been filed for two counts of aggravated breach of the peace against the two sons.
Suspected honor motive
The man has denied wrongdoing. He was arrested immediately after the incident. Aftonbladet has taken part in the personal investigation carried out by the man. There he admits that he “hit” the woman with a knife, but that he did not mean for her to die.It also appears that he had a need for control and believes that it was the wife who ruined their life, not him by killing her. Among other things, the man allegedly tried to change his wife’s schedule, so that she would not work with a specific colleague.
In the lawsuit, the prosecutor believes that the man murdered the woman “in order to preserve or maintain the family’s and/or his own honor.”
Among the evidence is information that the woman herself told the police about her situation, that she wanted a divorce and that she lived in an honorable context. She also had a divorce petition in her locker.
The prosecutor believes that the act was “particularly reckless” because it happened in front of the children, and that the man’s actions “caused severe suffering and fear of death” for the woman.
The brother’s grief: “Not found”
Expressen has previously spoken to the woman’s family.“That she would be killed in her own home, that idea just didn’t exist,” her younger brother said.
The woman worked in elderly care. She was popular, ambitious and caring, and the family has received a lot of support from both managers and colleagues.
A demonstration was organized by the Motala women’s shelter after the incident. Several hundred people gathered to honor the memory of the slain woman to protest men’s violence against women.
The woman and her siblings came to Sweden from Iraq just over ten years ago. Her youngest brother has described how the sister was the one who was the most forward. She wanted to get an education, learned Swedish quickly and was outgoing.
“The children are now in good hands. They are safe and doing well,” the brother told Expressen.
John Allan says
He has a STRANGE idea of honour!
As for the laws ‘… violating religious traditions and destroying families and values.”’
There’s nothing like murdering your spouse, to destroy your family.
BTeboe says
+10
BTeboe says
So very, very honorable. Kill your wife for some perceived infidelity and traumatize your children for life. So very, very honorable.
Walter Sieruk says
“Islamic culture “ is so very savage cruel ,brutal vicious and murderous that it’s not really a genuine culture.”
As observed in 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.
To put this in another way, 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 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
“Islamic culture “ is so very savage cruel ,brutal vicious and murderous that it’s not really an actural, genuine, culture.”
That brutal, callous cruel, malice-filled and murderous Islamic tradition that so very inappropriately called “honor killing” by many Muslims in one of the many malicious and vicious deadly fruits of Islam.
Jesus taught, “By their fruits you will know them.” Matthew 7:20. [N.K. J.V.]
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“The man has denied wrongdoing.”
According to his putrid religion, he has done nothing wrong.
Pray Hard says
Moslems don’t know honor from due South. They’re idiots.
Michael Copeland says
It is interesting that, at long last, the matter of Islamic “honor” is featuring in a criminal case. Not so long ago European legal systems were quite unacquainted with Islamic “honor” (euphemism for male supremacy).
In April 2019 in Germany there was an Afghan woman settled refugee who had left Islam. A fellow Afghan migrated to Germany and sought her out. After waiting for her to emerge from the supermarket he cut her throat on the spot in front of her children. He was taken to a psychiatric hospital.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/08/killing-someone-who-deserves-to-die/
Nancy R Assaf says
As I read about these happenings, it is blatantly obvious that there is no solution to this insanity as long as little children are subjected to this kind of abuse by their fathers. It is a self-fulfilling circle of evil that is just passed down from one generation to another year after year. We can only pray to God for deliverance for them; that somehow the cycle will be broken. I’m not optimistic about it.
somehistory says
It doesn’t say how she came to be married to this scummy snake. She traveled from Iraq with her two brothers ten years ago….was she married then, or did she marry after her arrival?
This is not “honor” but is for the sleaze to *save face* in front of other mozlums.
A man may marry and be upset when he finds out his wife wants a divorce, especially when he discovers she has a guy picked out to replace him. But a *man* doesn’t murder his wife to prevent her from leaving, nor to preserve his reputation with the neighbors and family.
mozlums are not *men* and with them, murder is acceptable, even in the presence of his children…probably especially in their presence, as a warning if they make him angry.
It’s great that he is being prosecuted and that his *reason* has been published. Perhaps a change is in the wind.
OLD GUY says
Here you go, It’s considered Honorable to MURDER your wife and children IF you think as a MAN they may insult you or to preserve your manly honor. Mohammad was a sicko and has brought the worlds most deadly “religion?” upon the land.
Michael Copeland says
Remember Bridges TV in New York, designed to impart a favourable view of Islam?
The couple who ran Bridges tv were muslim. The marriage was not a success, and they separated, the wife wanting a divorce. The husband pretended to want a reconciliation and arranged to meet her in the studio. He cut off her head with a sword.
Jim says
There seem to have been honor killings in the West in the past. I do not know the history of this practice, but I recall a story by Prosper Merimee called Mateo Falcone, which involved an honor kiling of a son by his father on the island of Corsica. I think there was also an honor killing in the film Zorba the Greek, The difference today is that generally our present day authorities and laws do not endorse the practice. Dueling was once practiced in the West. Alexander Hamilton was killdd in a duel. It seems a bit like an honor killing. The question is whether the religion of peace can give up a practice that has scriptural support. At least Jesus stopped a mob from stoning a woman. He did not endorse honor killing. But perhaps the Koran does.
Joe says
Are you seriously equating consentual duels to murder?
….you do realize that some states allow two consenting parties to have a fist fight right? Police officers can mediate and referee the fight even. I don’t see anything barbaric or morally wrong about fist fights or duels. …..there is somwthing wrong with and grotesque about a dude even wanting to murder his wife, let alone actually doing it. ….if a girl cheats on me I don’t immediately wanna beat her up or stab her, I immediately disown her and kick her out of my house and I move on. Only wierdos and losers wanna murder a woman that no longer wants them.
They are not the same thing, not even close. They may appear the same on the surface, but that’s the same as saying thay Christians and muslims are the same because we are both God believing religions and we are both Conservative in nature. ….which is intellectually dishonest.
I condone duels, I don’t condone dudes being so insecure that they want to be able to murder their girlfriends and wives.