Posted on 06/03/2005 2:48:38 PM PDT by Cornpone
Amman - Jordanian police are questioning a man who claimed he stabbed his sister to death in a so-called "honour crime", the second such killing in a week, the Jordan Times reported on Friday.
The body of the victim, a divorced woman of 25, was found on Wednesday with multiple stab wounds in a deserted area west of the capital Amman. Her hands were bound and she had a gag round her mouth, the newspaper said, quoting official sources.
Her brother turned himself in to the police on Thursday "claiming that he killed his sister because she was involved in immoral relationships," one official told the newspaper.
It was the second such killing in a week.
At least 19 women lost their lives in "honour killings" in the conservative Muslim kingdom last year, according to the Jordan Times.
Typically the killers go unpunished or get reduced sentences, often with little or no jail term.
Parliament has twice rejected proposed change to the penal code that would give the killer harsher sentences, despite campaigns by human rights activists.
Cops probe 'honour killing' (Mother, Father, Brothers Implicated -- Oh For Islamic Honour)
Ping...thanks for your pings this week...I've been out of the loop
Some Moslem guy in Salt Lake got arrested for severely beating his 17 year old daughter because she was talking on the phone with a boy. Haven't seen a link to it yet, but I heard it on the radio this morning.
I went to the Middle East section of the report, there's no such thing.
Perhaps, AI is too busy condemning the Great Satan, and being an anti-american organization punk it has become.
I want to hear moderate muslims comdem these actions, if there is any (yeah yeah.. allah willing they say for these killing). Where are all those imams ?
Excellent point about Amnesty International; they are growing increasingly selective about whom they criticize. Their partisan-slip is showing.
At this rate, how long would it take them to honor exterminate one another?
Amnesty International, the ACLU, and Howard Dean all praise the multi-cultural magnificence of Islam, treating women with such honor.
Well golly gee, aren't they just precious!../sarc
Pity King Hussein is dead and gone - he was the only Arab leader to stand up to the Palestinians!
Yes. It is a true pity as it seems his son has no courage.
So it seems...
Why do we allow these barbarians to steal our oxygen? Gad....is anything as foul as islime?
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