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Air Force official tortured his teenage daughter to death in Pakistan over the ‘honour issue’
Atlas Shrugs ^ | July 01, 2013 | Pamela Geller

Posted on 07/02/2013 10:21:08 AM PDT by Perseverando

The young 16-year-old left the house without telling her father. As she reached home, the devout father "started thrashing her, hitting her head and body with a cricket bat and an iron rod."

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.

As Robert Spencer notes: "Muslims 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. 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

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KEYWORDS: honorkilling; islam; pakistan; rop; ropwaronwomen; sharia; waronwomen
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And now women are empowered by “choice” and can kill at will their own children.

They did not become better women, kinder, gentler more loving, they became Femi-Nazi bitches with stone cold hearts. The fruits of a seared conscience. A good number of them became Suicidal.

America needs to turn back to God.


21 posted on 07/02/2013 2:07:08 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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