Mark Twain said that every man is ignorant about something. Could anyone enlighten me about what an “honor killing” is?
In Islam, if a woman does something to bring ‘shame’ to the family, the father or her brothers will kill the daughter. This is meant to restore the family ‘honor’. Sometimes, an honor killing is done for such transgressions as being raped, refusing to wear the hijab, living as a westerner, or refusing an arranged marriage.
from Wikipedia...
“An honor killing is the murder due to perceived loss, of wider family status owing to the actions or status of the victim. In West, honour killing is almost exclusively associated with killing of female by close family members with the aim of undoing the loss for actions seen to be offense to their culture particularly in term of sexually immodesty ranging from adultery , refusing to accept forced/arranged marriage, being victim of rape to merely refusing to adhere to hijab dress code. If victims are male, then the perpetrator is likely to be the family of woman whom the victim are accused having (adulterous) relationship.”
I’ve never seen a news report of an honor killing of a male, always a female. So these 2 girls ‘dishonored’ their family in some way that ‘justified’ their deaths.
Honor killings are very common in Europe now. I thought it would take longer for them to spread to the US. :-(
The gist of it: An honor killing is an Islamic practice done by a family member to someone in the family that they deem has insulted Islam
In this case the “honor killing” was because they were associating with non-Muslim boys, this cult is so sick it has to be stopped at all costs