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.”
This article makes clear that honor killing is not just a Sunni problem.
“Femicide rates in Iran up by 60% in two years, report says,” by Azadeh Akbari, Iran International, July 23, 2024:
A new report has highlighted an alarming trend of increasing femicide cases amid an ongoing pattern of violence against women and girls in Iran.
According to the report by Etemad Daily, in the first three months of the Iranian calendar in 2024 alone (March 20 to June 21), at least 35 women and girls were murdered by their close male relatives, particularly their husbands.
The number is a 25 percent increase from the 28 recorded during the same period in 2023 and a 59% rise from the 22 deaths in 2022.
A massive 85 percent of the murders were committed by the victims’ husbands and cases were spread across the country. In 2022, 16 women were killed by their husbands, followed by 15 in 2023, with a sharp increase to 27 in 2024 amid the climate of state crackdowns on women and girls.
Rights activists point to Iran’s laws and patriarchal society based on Islamic law as the primary cause of femicide which has worsened since 2022.
Conditions for women have become so bad that the United Nations branded Iran’s policy as “gender apartheid” as state policy legitimizes violence against women.
Honor killings can be carried out for as little as not wearing the mandatory hijab, bringing shame on the family.
UN Women says these gender-related killings are the “most brutal and extreme manifestation of violence against women and girls. According to the latest UN Women report, globally on average, more than 133 women or girls are killed every day by someone in their own family….
SC says
It’s cheaper than a divorce, or keeping a daughter nobody will want. As long as Islam condones it either directly or by not punishing those who do it it will continue. IMHO honor killings OR acid attacks in none islamic nations should be a 100% mandatory death penalty.
somehistory says
The evil and murderous *government* puts women and young girls to death, so why not the husband who has four wives and wants a new one? Or the mozlum male who wants a better cook?
On top of that, islam is chock full and flowing over with psychopaths; and psychopaths take pleasure in causing others pain, and lust to cause death They can murder their wives and daughters when they tire of raping them without any fear of punishment.
Walter Sieruk says
That brutal cruel Islamic tyranny of Iran is not limited in it’s misogyny against women but even young girls.
As explained by a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who defected to the West and now lives in America his book also informs the reader about the malicious and murderous affront girls in Iran’s Evin prison which reads that those in power ,the “paraded teenage girls in front in front of me as they led them to their deaths. These girls were barely out of their childhood, barely old enough to think of themselves, much less form thoughts against the state. They knew nothing about the machinations of politics. They were innocent in every sense of the word and certainty innocent of trumped –up charges that led to their imprisonment. Yet they suffered fates too brutal for even the most vicious criminal. ..Their few remaining moments of life had been filled with the level of abuse that few can imagine…The author further states “They tortured and killed young girls, in God’s name and before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.” [1]
Those vile, heinous and deadly affronts against human rights by that malice -filled Islamic regime of Iran.
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.
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 which is along with the Quran the foundation of that evil Islamic tyranny of Iran .
Therefore, it should be made known that the actual origin of Sharia had been revealed in a Time –Life book with the title MESOPOTAMIA: THE MIGHTY KINGS copyright 1995. The point is this what an outright liar Rasis is, for he said that he is “a defender of human rights.” For that future history book about the ancient pagan world of Mesopotamia informs the reader that “many Islamic laws resemble the Babylon and Assyrian forebears.” .page 150.
Therefore Sharia is of no value or worth.
There is the above and other references imply that such pagan teachings were incorporated into the religion that Muhammad manufactured and then started. Thus this further reveals that a lot of ancient paganism is part of the whole religion of Islam.
In other words, ancient paganism makes up much of Islam and it’s a hoax. Therefore the Islamic “republic” of Iran is based in Islam and Sharia has its entire foundation build on a hoax.
Walter Sieruk says
The brutal cruel cold-blooded murders of young females by the murderous thugs in uniform occurred repeatedly in the Islamic misogynists tyranny of Oran way before March 20 to June 21 this very year.
As seen in the murder of Mahsa Amini is very sad and tragic and that horrendous evil of her being murdered is because of the oppressive vicious brutal cruel and deadly misogynistic Islamic regime of Iran.
That action of male Muslim who are officials murdering defenseless, helpless women in cold blood is a heinous and hideous has occurred before and if that murderous Islamic regime isn’t overthrown such wicked killing will continue
Another example of such callous despicable heartless anti-female evil is when a teenage girl in Iran was talking to her boyfriend on the phone and then the Islamic state “police” walked over to her and shot her dead. They did that wicked and malicious thing to her because she was talking to her boyfriend and they also didn’t like her clothing. [1]
That was a clear cut case of murder and vicious Islamic madness by Iran’s Islamic state “ police”, who call themselves the “Revolutionary Guards”, they got away with their hideous and malice –filled evil because the mullahs as well as other villains in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime.
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili page 240
Walter Sieruk says
That Islamic tyranny of Iran is responsible for malicious murder of Mahsa Amini and the vicious murder of other teenage girls by those thugs in uniform who are the Islamic “police’ of that abomination of a tyranny of Iran is a most unconscionable evil of that misogyny filled Islamic tyranny of Iran.
This is a horrendous evil and isn’t an isolated incident when it comes to horrific human rights violations against girls and women in that hideous Islamic regime of Iran.
That cruel vicious murder of those young girls by the hooligan “police” of that Islamic tyranny is the result of that anti-female religion of Islam.
Now the most recent sharia violation charges against those to young actresses of not wearing their hijabs further proves the truth revealed by a scholar of Islam who revealed in her book “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islam ideology.” Furthermore, the author also exposed that `” Women is Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [1]
[1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel, pages 171,172.
Troybeam says
Reliance of the Traveller: Islamic Sacred Law aka sharia. Read this book, forget all others as this book will tell you what you need to know.
James Lincoln says
Let’s see, around 35 Iranian women murdered (“honor” killings) in around 12 weeks.
Around three per week.
Week after week.
Think about that…
James Lincoln says
Let’s see, around 35 Iranian women murdered (“honor” killings) in around 12 weeks.
Around three per week.
Week after week.
Think about that…
OLD GUY says
ISLAM, and women rights. Oh wait Women have NO rights under Islamic law, they are PROPERTY to be used and disposed of at will of the man. What could possibly be wrong with that? Funny how we see so many female supporters of Hamas here in America and Europe? I guess they haven’t read all of the islamic rules for women.