Posted on 05/24/2019 7:27:41 AM PDT by robowombat
Pakistan: a record number of honor killings hits a dozen in two weeks
Pakistan has struck up a record number of honor killings in the space of two weeks. A dozen cases have been reported. That’s almost one a day.
Islamic honor killings are often denied by Islamic supremacists. Take for example an article which is titled “There is no honor in honor killings” in Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper. Firstly, it is obvious that there is no honor in honor killings; however, there is no denying either that the practice is done precisely to ‘preserve’ the so-called honor of the family in some cultures. The Globe and Mail article includes reference to a report published by Islamic Relief Canada aimed at “changing the narratives on honor and shame among Muslim-Canadian communities”. The report tried to “challenge” the so-called “misguided religious justifications for honour-based violence that are often used to perpetuate and mitigate the practice.” Unfortunately, Islamic edict permits such action and therefore, it is not deemed to be “misguided” or wrong by those who embrace its tenets.
The Sunni Sharia manual Umdat al-Salik (The Reliance of the Traveller) permits a father to kill his offspring with impunity:
“Section o1.2 lists many cases of murder for which the murderer is granted immunity. Case #4 refers specifically to that of a parent who kills his/her child:
A child or insane person, under any circumstances A Muslim for killing a non-Muslim A Jewish or Christian subject of the Islamic state for killing an apostate from Islam A father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring “ Muslims should not be covering up such barbarity (still being practiced today), or the sharia justification of it. It should be admitted to, and then widely condemned by Muslims but this is not the case. Muslims and non-Muslims who point it out openly are deemed to be “Islamophobic”, xenophobic, racist and the like.
Although esteemed author and human rights leader Phyllis Chesler notes that honor killing is not uniquely a Muslim problem, she also notes that…
Once people with such tribal traditions and psychologies travel to the West, the exacting shame-and-honor codes should no longer apply. But apply they do, at least among Muslims and, to a lesser extent, among Sikhs.
Chesler further stated…
There were many more honor killings in Europe than in America, since there was a large immigrant, mainly Muslim, population there.
In 2017, a Sharia court in the UK handed down a sentence approving of honor killing.
“Pakistan authorities record a dozen cases of ‘honour’ killing in a fortnight”, by Shah Meer Baloch, The Guardian, May 17, 2019:
The killer was unrepentant.
“I killed my sister because she brought [a] bad name for the family,” he told neighbours in the Kachi district of Balochistan, Pakistan.
“I killed her and her lover for family honour. I want it to be a lesson for all girls in the town.”
Locals believe other members of the man’s family may have been involved but, a fortnight after the bodies were found , no arrests have been made, although police are aware of the allegations.
On Tuesday, the Dawn newspaper reported that a woman from Lahore had been shot dead, allegedly by her son, brother and brother-in-law, after leaving her husband and taking refuge at the house of a friend.
Police said they found the body of Arooj Shahzad a day after she approached officers over fears that her family would come after her. Chutala police have registered a case against five suspects.
Shahzad’s killing was the 12th in a fortnight linked to “honour” recorded by the Pakistan authorities.
Every week in Pakistan brings fresh news of wives strangled, daughters shot or sisters drowned for a perceived slight to family “honour”. Sometimes a single person is responsible; more often, a group of male family members is involved. The vast majority of the killers go unpunished.
Statistics from the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan suggest there were 1,276 such murders over a two-year period beginning in February 2014, 400 of which were officially registered as crimes by the police.
Human rights campaigners say more than 1,500 killings occurred between 2016 and 2018, a figure anecdotally confirmed by Asad Butt, vice chair of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
Pakistan’s parliament unanimously passed legislation against killings linked to the concept of “honour”, or “izzat”, following the murder of Qandeel Baloch in 2016. The death of the social media celebrity, who was killed by her brother in the name of “honour”, sparked international outrage
Pock-ee-ston. Obama’s favorite place.
Pakistan...a crap hole country whose “people” murder (honor killings) normal people who emerge in their midst.
Killing off all their Females ?
Let’s be honest.
If women who have had sex before marriage or cheated on their husbands here fell under such insane rule...there’d be very few live women.
Both should be frowned upon for both men and women.
But making it illegal never works and is also ridiculous.
If they caught ALL cheaters, a lot more would be dead.
Sick ####s.
If there’s any upside, their population might decline.
Such a peaceful religion...
Certain religion-related mayhem always spikes upward right after ramodam. Must be a blood sugar thing.
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