Pakistan: Muslim brothers kill their sisters for wanting to marry for love
February 2, 2015 7:09 pm By Robert Spencer 10 Comments
honor killingMuslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that “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.” (‘Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2). In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law. In this case, of course, the victim was the murderer’s wife, a victim to the culture of violence and intimidation that such laws help create.
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 gives to honor killing is acknowledged and confronted, more women will suffer.
“Two sisters killed for ‘honour,’” Dawn, February 2, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
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JHANG: Two sisters were killed by their three brothers for ‘honour’ here on Sunday at Chak No. 181/JB.
Reports said Zulekhan and Gulzar Bibi refused to marry men of their family’s choice and wanted to contract love marriage.
The family members allegedly detained them at house and arranged their marriage.
The girls in order to avert forced marriage tried to leave the house while their brothers Muhammad Asif, Shahbaz and Arshad fired on them, killing them on the spot.
Azhar Khan, father of the girls, approached the police who registered a case against his sons. No arrests have been made so far.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/02/pakistan-muslim-brothers-kill-their-sisters-for-wanting-to-marry-for-love
