She eloped with a man. He disapproved. So she had to die. But the father knew he would get off lightly: “Reza Ashrafi sought legal advice before he killed his daughter, and knew that his maximum sentence could only be ten years in prison.”
Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. 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 law gives to honor killing is acknowledged and confronted, more women will suffer.
“Iranian Father’s Light Sentence For Honor Killing Rekindles Controversy Over Islamic Penal Code,” Radio Farda, August 28, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The sentencing of a father for beheading his fourteen -year-old daughter with a sickle while she was asleep for eloping with a much older man in May has rekindled conversations about the Islamic Penal Code on social media.
In an interview with the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA) on Friday, Rana Dashti, the victim’s mother, said she has been informed of her husband Reza Ashrafi’s nine-year prison sentence, as well as the two-year sentence of the man her daughter had eloped with.
Dashti also told ILNA that the court verdict has “terrified” her and her own family, claiming that her husband’s family has repeatedly threatened to take away the custody of her young son….
The teenage girl, Romina Ashrafi, was murdered by her father as an act of “honor killing” in May in northern Iran’s rural Talesh county. Her father was detained after widespread reaction to the tragedy across the country and on social media.
Although Iran’s Chief Justice Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi promised “a punishment to set an example,” it was clear from the start of the case that the father would not be sentenced to death, as opposed to non-family murder cases.
Article 220 of Iran’s Islamic Penal Code stipulates that fathers and grandfathers cannot be sentenced to death for killing a child or grandchild.
Before her tragic death, Romina Ashrafi had fallen in love with a man in her hometown, and after her father vehemently opposed their marriage, the couple eloped. The two were detained after their families filed complaints with the police, and a court handed Romina over to her father despite her pleas not to send her home, during which she warned that her father was a temperamental person and her life was in danger.
According to some media reports, Reza Ashrafi sought legal advice before he killed his daughter, and knew that his maximum sentence could only be ten years in prison.
Dude says
There are no words.
Don’t try to tell me this a religion, the plans of God.
mortimer says
Islam is a cult of death and misogyny. The caliphs created Islam and the Koran for their own emolument.
DavidR says
Islam defiles the bond between parent and child and is therefore responsible for countless sad or angry young adults who act out on a regular basis.
Krishna says
there is no bond between parents and child in some muslims they just make babies as religious obligation after marriage
gravenimage says
Too often true.
tim gallagher says
A ridiculously light sentence, although in a barbaric Islamic country like Iran it is a wonder they didn’t give this evil piece of crap a medal for upholding Muslim values. Islam is such an appalling ideology, a totally uncivilised throwback to mankind’s more primitive past.
Dremora says
+1 I rather to live with monkeys in a forest than living with these dangerous islamists in a modern city.
tim gallagher says
I agree, Dremora. It is amazing to me that so many people still tell us that islam deserves respect. Islam is evil garbage from way back in mankind’s past and should have disappeared ages ago.
RichardL says
9 years is a light sentence? In what European country do you go to prison for 9 years and serve 9 years for murder? Don’t get me wrong: he should be killed, but I bet the European left moans about the inhumanity. After all, he only followed what allah told him
gravenimage says
Islamic Republic of Iran: Father gets nine-year sentence for murdering his 14-year-old daughter in honor killing
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I’m surprised he was convicted at all in Iran. He will likely be out in much less than 9 years.
Giacomo Latta says
He will likely find work with the Iranian Moral Police when he gets out.
Krishna says
max 6 i guess
Walter Sieruk says
That brutal cruel vicious Muslim father who murdered his young daughter was engaging in the malicious and murderous Islamic tradition that in the Islamic world is so very inappropriately called “honor killing.”
Furthermore, the Arab scholar Brigitte Gabriel ,who is the founder and head of actforamerica.org , in her book of the title of THEY MUST BE STOPPED on pages 171,172, exposes that “The shocking reality is that most Muslim men, including those educated in the West, have no objection to honor killings and the degradation of women in their countries .Across the Muslim world , even in moderate Islamic countries, women’s rights are almost coexistent .. Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.”
Those malice-filled Muslim men with all their spiteful Islamic misogyny ,indeed, must be stopped.”
Walter Sieruk says
It’s also appropriate to add that related to this top jihadwatch article is the author Brigitte Gabriel, of the same book just mentioned above on page 171 reveals that “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islamic ideology .
Krishna says
this is what islam does it not only harms non muslims it makes your own child an object off hate in islamic societies
OLD GUY says
Honor murder, what in the hell is honorable about murdering your family members? Oh wait a dead prophet named Mohammad made that up, so he could control his family and followers. If Muhammad ate shit these islamic followers would have it on the menu. Thats how far they will go to follow this dead guy.
Wayne Roberts says
What sort of filthy sub human trash cuts his own daughter’s head off?
One afflicted by the contemptible scourge of islam would appear to be the answer.