Iranian Kurdistan: Muslim brothers behead their sister in honor killing over her romantic relationship
December 5, 2020 3:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER
This incident is reminiscent of a strange story 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.”
Until the encouragement Islamic law gives to honor killing is acknowledged and confronted, more women will suffer.
“Iranian Kurdish brothers behead their sister in honor killing,” Ekurd Daily, December 2, 2020:
SNE, Iranian Kurdistan,— A 31-year-old Kurdish woman in Sne (Sanandaj) city in Iranian Kurdistan has been killed by her family for what it is referred as “honor reasons.”
According to Hengaw Organization, which reports on human rights abuses in the Iranian Kurdistan, the young woman identified as Sargul Habibi, 31-year-from village of Sorkhedzaj (Suvraze), a few kilometers from Sne in Iranian Kurdistan, was beaten by her brothers on excuses of honor and was then brutally beheaded.
Sargul Habibi was recently detained by the police accused of having relationship with a young man, but both were released a day later, the watchdog said.
Sargul Habibi’s body was buried on Monday, in Muhammadi Cemetery of Sne in complete silence and without any funerals .
Even two days after the brutal murder of a young woman in Sne by her brothers, the judiciary has not yet made any official statement on the matter and none of the young woman’s brothers have been prosecuted or detained by the police
According to statistics registered in Statistics and Documentation Data Center of Hengaw Human Rights Organization, during past 9 months, at least 4 women in Iranian Kurdistan have been killed by their relatives on the excuses of honor.
Honor killings are a common feature in traditional Kurdistan, where women who are deemed to have dishonored the family by associating with men who are not immediate relatives are killed by a relative…. |
