Honor Killings In The US
Murder in the Family: Honor Killing in America
on 11 Jul 2010
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There are thousands of reported Honor Killings by Muslims each year throughout the world and even tens of thousands more that go unreported. In Turkey for example, honor killings are illegal so Muslim men resort to pressuring women to commit honor suicides. 1
Among the Palestinians, killing a wife, daughter, or sister for honor is not considered a crime and hence is not reported at all. 2
In many western countries, these crimes have been misreported since most police were unaware of the religious component to the crime. It is only recently that so many young Muslim women have been killed that they are now revisiting these crimes to see if they were in fact honor killings. 3
There is no shortage of Islamic laws that justify killing a woman for marrying a boy from the wrong community, or refusing an arranged marriage, or wearing non-Muslim-style clothing, or having a boyfriend, or even being raped. For example, a Jordanian man murdered his daughter (4) after she kept leaving home without permission. But that's not my point, Muslim women in the tens of thousands are killed for such petty reasons every year by Muslim men, so what's the big deal? No, my point here is that Jordan had so many honor killings that in 2003 a proposal was brought before its parliament to impose a harsher penalty for honor killings, which before then was merely a slap on the wrist. The result? It was overwhelmingly defeated because Islamists objected that a more severe punishment would violate religious traditions and damage Jordanian society! Wha?!? And this from what we consider a moderate Muslim country.
So while Muslim apologists will bleat that honor killings have nothing to do with Islam, it is noteworthy that Islamic laws in almost every Muslim country support honor killings by not allowing harsh punishment for men who do the deed. What hypocrisy. Listen Ahmed, you are not allowed to say Islam does not condone or encourage honor killings when in fact Islamic Law is used to prevent harsh penalties for men who commit these honor killings.
Imagine a country saying they do not support slavery but at the same time the punishment for having slaves is ten dollars. Yeah, right. Sell that story to liberal idiots.
Even in the US we have many, many honor killings. Let me admit right off that of course we have non-Muslim fathers murdering daughters and wives in the US for a variety of reasons. However, it is rare that one of the reasons is because of religious beliefs. And the reason for that is quite simple, there is no Christian or Jewish law that requires death to a woman for being nonreligious.
In Jonesboro, Georgia in July of 2008 a Pakistani immigrant strangled his 25-year-old daughter with a bungee cord because she filed for divorce to end her arranged marriage. (5) His excuse? Extramarital affairs and divorce are against his religion. His religion? Islam. But Islam has nothing to do with honor killings.
A few weeks earlier in upstate New York, Waheed Allah Mohammad, an immigrant from Afghanistan, repeatedly stabbed his 19-year-old sister. (6) Why? Because she was a "bad Muslim girl," he told sheriff's investigators. But Islam has nothing to do with honor killings.
A few months later in Texas an Egyptian immigrant named Yaser Abdel Said shot his two daughters upon learning that they had boyfriends. (7) Why? Because infidel culture was corrupting the chastity of his daughters. But Islam has nothing to do with honor killings.
There is not enough ink or time for me to enumerate all the honor killings in the US by Muslim immigrants. But what would it prove anyway? Muslim apologists will continue to maintain that honor killings are ancient tribal customs and have nothing to do with Islam. A tribal thing, eh? Funny that. I did not know that these immigrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Egypt were members of the same ancient tribe. And the Turkish, Jordanian and Palestinian killers mentioned above, they too are members of the same ancient tribe. Pakistan has more than a thousand reported honor killings. Wow, what a big tribe. I wonder, and here I am wondering aloud, is there any one thing tying all these disparate tribal members to each other? I don't know, let me take a stab at it: they all follow the same soccer team? Nah. It must be something else. I just can't put my finger on it. |
