from Jihad Watch:
UK: Honor murderers jailed for life
"To restore the so-called family honour, it was decided by her father and uncle that she should die and her memory be erased."
The mainstream media has told us, whenever an honor killing has taken place in North America or Europe, that honor killing is a cultural practice that has nothing to do with Islam -- despite the fact that Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. What's more, a manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that "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." ('Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2).
In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law. Nonetheless, the media drumbeat is constant: honor killings have nothing to do with Islam. Yet Syria recently 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."
"Banaz Mahmod 'honour' killing cousins jailed for life," from the BBC, November 10 (thanks to Paul):
Two cousins who murdered a relative because her family disapproved of her boyfriend have been jailed for life.
Banaz Mahmod, 20, an Iraqi Kurd from Mitcham, south London, was strangled in January 2006 and her body buried in a suitcase in Handsworth, Birmingham.
Mohammed Saleh Ali and Omar Hussain, both 28, received minimum jail terms of 22 and 21 years respectively.
The victim's father Mahmod Mahmod and uncle Ari Mahmod were jailed for life her murder in 2007.
Ali and Hussain - who were also found guilty of burying Miss Mahmod's body, conspiring to kidnap her boyfriend Rahmat Sulemani and threatening to kill him - fled to Iraq after the murder.
But the pair became the first suspects ever to be extradited to Britain from Iraq after Metropolitan Police detectives tracked them down.
Judge Brian Barker, the Common Serjeant of London, told them: "This was a barbaric and callous crime.
"To restore the so-called family honour, it was decided by her father and uncle that she should die and her memory be erased."
He told Ali and Hussain: "You were willing and active participants in what was an agonising death and a deliberately disrespectful disposal.
"You are hard and callous men who were quite prepared to assist others in killing in the so-called name of honour and who placed respect from the community above life, tolerance and understanding."...
Posted by Robert on November 10, 2010 2:54 PM
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