“When you meet the unbelievers, strike necks…” (Qur’an 47:4)
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.”
“Yvelines: an Algerian international footballer arrested for attempted murder of his little sister,” translated from “Yvelines : un footballeur international algérien arrêté pour tentative de meurtre sur sa petite sœur,” Valeurs Actuelles, June 5, 2023 (thanks to Medforth):
A family dispute that escalates. Sunday, June 4, an international football player of Franco-Algerian nationality was arrested by the police in the Yvelines for having strangled his sister, reports Le Parisien. The police intervened around 6:45 p.m. this Sunday evening, at the home of the parents of this football player, located in Maurepas. A dispute would have broken out between this man and his little sister, aged 15, for a reason that is still unknown. The athlete strangled his sister. In fact, the police, called by the parents to put an end to this violence, found red marks on the girl’s neck and scratches on her arms.
The victim’s brother was apprehended and taken into custody for attempted murder at the Élancourt police station, to prevent any attempt to escape. This international player would have been selected nineteen times for the Algerian national team since 2013. He was trained in Trappes and Paris Saint-Germain and played for Olympique Lyonnais, then in Italy and Germany, before finishing his career in Qatar, on the club of Al-Gharafa SC.
Despite the request of the police, his younger sister has still not filed a complaint. The footballer will be interviewed by investigators while in police custody and the Versailles prosecutor’s office has 48 hours to decide what to do with this case.
somehistory says
A murderous mozlum, doing what murderous mozlums do. Kind of surprised that his parents called the police. Must have just been personal on the creep’s part and not actually involving islam.
The girl is probably afraid to speak up.
DHZ says
Where there are allot of Muslims there are allot of court appointed marriage counselors.
Walter Sieruk says
This isa tragic reminder that Sharia [ [Islamic law] allows and even encourages the brutal, cruel malicious action of cold blooded murder so very inappropriately called “honor killing.”
There is nothing in actual honor about such a malice- filled in such a despicable horrendous vicious murderous action of evil.
This wicked Islamic sanctioned deadly affront of “honor killing” is often done for the most absurd “reasons.”
Walter Sieruk says
This is an example of “Islamic family values.”
OLD GUY says
Well it could have been one less muslim brood mare. I’am beginning to support muslim on muslim honor killing, used to think that was horrible, but fewer muslims looks like a good thing now.