In the Qur’an, a mysterious figure, known as Khidr in Islamic tradition, kills a boy in an apparently random and gratuitous attack. He then explains: “And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. So we intended that their Lord should substitute for them one better than him in purity and nearer to mercy.” (18:80-81)
And according to Islamic law, “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.” (Reliance of the Traveller o1.1-2).
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.” In Iran, according to the New York Times, the legal system “treats parents who murder their children with relative leniency, as the maximum sentence for the crime is only ten years.”
somehistory says
Of course. and who believes this scum rat when he says he didn’t mean to kill his daughter?
there is a rule about gun use: Don’t point it unless you mean to kill.
He meant it. He just doesn’t want to pay a penalty for doing the murder. He probably will get off without even a wrist slap. But, Justice will find him. ”One reaps as he sows; whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap.”
mortimer says
Honor killing is completely lawful and permissible in Islam. Honor killing is codified in Sharia law.
From the most used manual of Sharia law: “not subject to retaliation” is “a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring.” (Reliance of the Traveller o1.1-2).
The Golden Rule of Jews and Christians was intentionally left out of the Koran. The disobedient girl had become a kafir. The blood of the kafir fighting Islam is ‘mubaa’ (licit or fair game) for Muslims to take.
Restoring honor to the patriarch comes with the shedding of blood.
The Iranian court may impose a severe penalty nevertheless.
somehistory says
Have I told you lately that I’m not reading the filth you keep pasting as responses to my comments? You are wasting your time.
I will not read it, mort i mere. Not here, not there not anywhere.
I will not read it with a goat, will not read it in a boat.
I will not read it now or then, I will not read it, with a hen…or without one.
Walter Sieruk says
This tragedy is a blatant example of how Islam is a loveless religion that completely disregards the value of human life.
Of all the false claims and lying statements ,I had read in an islamic propaganda booklet printed in English to be read by uniforms and naive Westerners that “Islam is a religion that respects life, all life.”
That lie of a statement even had a picture of a young girl place above it in that booklet.
gravenimage says
+1
Check Burry says
They are deranged, its their day job.
Walter Sieruk says
That tragic information news report does lead to the topic of the great contrast between the mindset of God given Spirit of a Christian father who is very disappointed his daughter because she wants to live “without restrictions” and the Muslim father’s mindset of demonic malice- filed deadly spirit of Islamic misogyny.who is disappointed by his daughter because she wants to live “without restrictions.”
A Christian father prays for his daughter or at the very worst he shuns her.
By contrast the Muslim father murders her,
The difference between the two is great and outstanding.
Jesus taught “By their fruit you will recognise them.” Matthew 7:20. [NI.V.]
gravenimage says
Iran: Father kills his 16-year-old daughter because she ‘wanted to live without restrictions’
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This *poor child*. And I doubt this murderous thug will get much in the way of punishment. And every other child in the family–especially the girls–will learn this vicious lesson.
Andrew Blackadder says
A loving Father in the islamic tradition…. Go figure…
Jim says
I know apologists for sharia and Islamic honor killing who say the perpetrators are radical extremists. But it seems they are doing what the Koran and other Islamic scriptures says to do. And the imams and ayatollahs say these prescriptions are eternal, as God (Allah) has issued them. It seems strange for Western people with education can be stubborn defenders of doctrines and people who hate them and draw their inspiration from the Islamic scriptures and teachings of contemporary religious authorities. These honor killings are only disapproved of by people who come from the Islamic world but do not believe in the sharia. They may find more attractive verses in the Koran, but these are verses that are not authoritative, they way the more violent and cruel ones appear to be.
Uma says
How can he do this to his such an innocent daughter. He is an example and meaning of, Fantaticism, Lunacy and autracity.
OLD GUY says
Death to FREEDOM get the message from ISLAM.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Islam- The greatest existential threat to Muslim women.