So much for “nothing to do with Islam”-
From Institute for War & Peace Reporting
Syrian leaders have recommended reforming laws under which criminals convicted of so-called “honour crimes” get lenient sentences.
* Christians and Jews do it all the time, Buddhists do it sometimes and Hindus suttee their wives, right?
How to beat your wife correctly according to Islamic rules:
* Â From the “nothing to do with islam” department:
There are crazy people who kill their families all the time. Christians, Hindus, Druids, whatever. Heck, most murders are committed by someone who knows the victims well.
Those things are indisputably true. It is also indisputably true that Islamic law is unique in giving divine sanction to certain kinds of abuse of women and children.
“Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them. Lo! Allah is ever High, Exalted, Great.” — Qur’an 4:34
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FBI drops designation of Said murders as “honor killing”
No justice for these poor girls
With thanks to JW
A few days ago, as we discussed here, the FBI designated the murders of Amina and Sarah Said by their father Yaser Said an honor killing. The wanted poster for Yaser Said said this:
Yaser Abdel Said is wanted for murder. On January 1, 2008, Said took his two teenaged daughters for a ride in his taxi cab, under the guise of taking them to get something to eat. He drove them to a secluded park in Irving, Texas, where he allegedly shot both girls to death. They died of multiple gunshot wounds. The 17- and 18-year-old girls were dating American boys, which was contrary to their father’s rules of not dating non-Muslim boys. Reportedly, the girls were murdered due to an “Honor Killing.” Said may have fled to New York or Egypt.
But the intrepid Pamela has noticed that the wanted poster has been revised, and now says this:
*Â A better question for these muslim apologists is “What can you use in the koran to stop honor killings?” if in fact, islam doesn’t condone honor killings. So why has islam not been able to stop honor killings? Ask your honor killing neighbors and watch them squirm!
Supna Zaidi, the assistant director of Islamist Watch and daughter of my dear and much-missed friend the late Tashbih Sayyed, considers this question in an article of the same name atPajamas Media (from DW)
*Â Jailed Jordanian women escape ‘honour killings’ by being jailed, some for 15 years and more…
