Post by iris89 on Jul 22, 2010 11:10:25 GMT -5
Is Honor Murder Of Your Daughter/Wife An Acceptable Practice In North America?
First, Let’s define what is being spoken about. An honor killing (also called a customary killing) is the murder of a family or clan member by one or more fellow family members, where the murderers (and potentially the wider community) believe the victim to have brought dishonor upon the family, clan, or community. This perceived dishonor is normally the result of (a) utilizing dress codes unacceptable to the family (b) wanting out of an arranged marriage or choosing to marry by own choice or (c) engaging in certain sexual acts. These killings result from the perception that defense of honor justifies killing a person whose behavior dishonors their clan or family. This is the reality among many members of Islam, and also among a very few members of group 2 false so called Christian religions (Coptic).
Second, It is being practiced in America and Canada. Let’s look at one such killing in the State of Texas,
“Honor Killing in Texas, by Robert Spencer, 01/08/2008 [source - Human Events.com, retrieved from www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24329 on 12/18/2009]
Amina Said, 18, and her sister Sarah, 17, smile happily in one widely circulating photo, and Amina is wearing what looks like a sweatshirt bearing the name “AMERICAN.” But their fate may have been the herald of a new, disquieting feature of the American landscape: honor killing. Amina and Sarah were shot dead in Irving, Texas, on New Year’s Day. Police are searching for their father, Yaser Abdel Said, on a warrant for capital murder.
The girls’ great aunt, Gail Gartrell, told reporters, “This was an honor killing.” She explained that Yaser Said had long abused the girls, and after discovering that they had boyfriends, had threatened to kill them -- whereupon their mother fled with them. “She ran with them,” said Gartrell, “because she knew he would carry out the threat.” But Said found them, and apparently did carry it out.
Honor killing, the practice of murdering a female family member who is believed to have sullied the family honor, enjoys widespread acceptance in some areas of the Islamic world. However, Islam Said, the brother of Amina and Sarah,.””
Third, The case of the honorable but freedom loving teenager Noor in Arizona..
“In the USA, police allege the latest "honor killing" was that of Noor Almaleki, 20, who died Nov. 2 after she and her boyfriend's mother were run over in a Peoria, Ariz., parking lot. Prosecutors charged Almaleki's father, Faleh Almaleki, with murder, saying the Iraqi immigrant was upset that his daughter rejected a husband she married in Iraq and moved in with an American.
"By his own admission, this was an intentional act, and the reason was that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family," says Maricopa County prosecutor Stephanie Low, according to The Arizona Republic”.
Fourth, Honor Killings by Islamist Watch – David J. Rusin:
Says it all with respect any religion that would permit such a practice by its members and NOT throw them out or excommunicate them.
by David J. Rusin • Dec 31, 2009 at 4:03 pm
www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2009/12/honor-crime-in-america-2009-recap
Over the past year, Americans have heard much about honor killings on U.S. soil, as even the see-no-evil mainstream press could no longer ignore these crimes. A brief review is in order.
The United States witnessed two high-profile slayings in 2009 that have been widely characterized as honor murders:
• Muzzammil Hassan is charged with beheading his estranged wife Aasiya on February 12 at the Buffalo-area offices of Bridges TV, the channel they founded to improve the image and self-image of Muslims in the U.S. Previously Aasiya filed for divorce and obtained a protection order against her husband. The start of his trial for second-degree murder has been pushed back to March 2010, so his attorneys can have more time to prepare an insanity defense.
• Faleh Hassan Almaleki, an immigrant from Iraq reported to be a U.S. citizen, is charged with first-degree murder for running over his daughter Noor, along with her boyfriend's mother, in an Arizona parking lot on October 20. Noor had scorned an arranged marriage and moved in with a different man. Prosecutor Stephanie Low stated, "By his own admission, this was an intentional act, and the reason was that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family" for being "too Westernized."
Both cases exhibit hallmarks of honor murder outlined by Phyllis Chesler: "barbaric ferocity" in the Hassan beheading and direct references to family shame in the Almaleki hit and run.
Other honor-related crimes and stories made the news in 2009. Among them:
• Waheed Allah Mohammad, a New York-based Afghan refugee, pleaded guilty on January 7 to the attempted murder of his sister in 2008; he will serve between five and fifteen years. Mohammad described her as a "bad Muslim girl" who dresses immodestly.
• Ohio teen Rifqa Bary disappeared on July 19 and resurfaced in Florida, claiming that her Muslim parents would kill her for converting to Christianity because "there is great honor" for them to do so. She was later returned to Ohio, where her case continues.
• On September 17, the mother of Sarah and Amina Said finally declared the January 1, 2008, murder of her daughters to be an "honor killing" by their now-fugitive father.
• Mehdi M. Matin of Lynnwood, Washington, admitted to killing his visiting brother on October 26. Matin himself called it an honor slaying to avenge a decades-old insult about his onetime bride-to-be. He is charged with second-degree murder.
As argued previously at IW, the appearance of honor murders is a particularly heinous manifestation of a broader problem: the introduction to the West of an Islamist culture that treats women as chattel and places family reputation above human life. How many more must die before we seriously address the ideology that has given birth to honor killings and other extreme examples of domestic violence in the U.S.?
SHOULD THIS PRACTICE CONTINUE IN NORTH AMERICA?
First, Let’s define what is being spoken about. An honor killing (also called a customary killing) is the murder of a family or clan member by one or more fellow family members, where the murderers (and potentially the wider community) believe the victim to have brought dishonor upon the family, clan, or community. This perceived dishonor is normally the result of (a) utilizing dress codes unacceptable to the family (b) wanting out of an arranged marriage or choosing to marry by own choice or (c) engaging in certain sexual acts. These killings result from the perception that defense of honor justifies killing a person whose behavior dishonors their clan or family. This is the reality among many members of Islam, and also among a very few members of group 2 false so called Christian religions (Coptic).
Second, It is being practiced in America and Canada. Let’s look at one such killing in the State of Texas,
“Honor Killing in Texas, by Robert Spencer, 01/08/2008 [source - Human Events.com, retrieved from www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24329 on 12/18/2009]
Amina Said, 18, and her sister Sarah, 17, smile happily in one widely circulating photo, and Amina is wearing what looks like a sweatshirt bearing the name “AMERICAN.” But their fate may have been the herald of a new, disquieting feature of the American landscape: honor killing. Amina and Sarah were shot dead in Irving, Texas, on New Year’s Day. Police are searching for their father, Yaser Abdel Said, on a warrant for capital murder.
The girls’ great aunt, Gail Gartrell, told reporters, “This was an honor killing.” She explained that Yaser Said had long abused the girls, and after discovering that they had boyfriends, had threatened to kill them -- whereupon their mother fled with them. “She ran with them,” said Gartrell, “because she knew he would carry out the threat.” But Said found them, and apparently did carry it out.
Honor killing, the practice of murdering a female family member who is believed to have sullied the family honor, enjoys widespread acceptance in some areas of the Islamic world. However, Islam Said, the brother of Amina and Sarah,.””
Third, The case of the honorable but freedom loving teenager Noor in Arizona..
“In the USA, police allege the latest "honor killing" was that of Noor Almaleki, 20, who died Nov. 2 after she and her boyfriend's mother were run over in a Peoria, Ariz., parking lot. Prosecutors charged Almaleki's father, Faleh Almaleki, with murder, saying the Iraqi immigrant was upset that his daughter rejected a husband she married in Iraq and moved in with an American.
"By his own admission, this was an intentional act, and the reason was that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family," says Maricopa County prosecutor Stephanie Low, according to The Arizona Republic”.
Fourth, Honor Killings by Islamist Watch – David J. Rusin:
Says it all with respect any religion that would permit such a practice by its members and NOT throw them out or excommunicate them.
by David J. Rusin • Dec 31, 2009 at 4:03 pm
www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2009/12/honor-crime-in-america-2009-recap
Over the past year, Americans have heard much about honor killings on U.S. soil, as even the see-no-evil mainstream press could no longer ignore these crimes. A brief review is in order.
The United States witnessed two high-profile slayings in 2009 that have been widely characterized as honor murders:
• Muzzammil Hassan is charged with beheading his estranged wife Aasiya on February 12 at the Buffalo-area offices of Bridges TV, the channel they founded to improve the image and self-image of Muslims in the U.S. Previously Aasiya filed for divorce and obtained a protection order against her husband. The start of his trial for second-degree murder has been pushed back to March 2010, so his attorneys can have more time to prepare an insanity defense.
• Faleh Hassan Almaleki, an immigrant from Iraq reported to be a U.S. citizen, is charged with first-degree murder for running over his daughter Noor, along with her boyfriend's mother, in an Arizona parking lot on October 20. Noor had scorned an arranged marriage and moved in with a different man. Prosecutor Stephanie Low stated, "By his own admission, this was an intentional act, and the reason was that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family" for being "too Westernized."
Both cases exhibit hallmarks of honor murder outlined by Phyllis Chesler: "barbaric ferocity" in the Hassan beheading and direct references to family shame in the Almaleki hit and run.
Other honor-related crimes and stories made the news in 2009. Among them:
• Waheed Allah Mohammad, a New York-based Afghan refugee, pleaded guilty on January 7 to the attempted murder of his sister in 2008; he will serve between five and fifteen years. Mohammad described her as a "bad Muslim girl" who dresses immodestly.
• Ohio teen Rifqa Bary disappeared on July 19 and resurfaced in Florida, claiming that her Muslim parents would kill her for converting to Christianity because "there is great honor" for them to do so. She was later returned to Ohio, where her case continues.
• On September 17, the mother of Sarah and Amina Said finally declared the January 1, 2008, murder of her daughters to be an "honor killing" by their now-fugitive father.
• Mehdi M. Matin of Lynnwood, Washington, admitted to killing his visiting brother on October 26. Matin himself called it an honor slaying to avenge a decades-old insult about his onetime bride-to-be. He is charged with second-degree murder.
As argued previously at IW, the appearance of honor murders is a particularly heinous manifestation of a broader problem: the introduction to the West of an Islamist culture that treats women as chattel and places family reputation above human life. How many more must die before we seriously address the ideology that has given birth to honor killings and other extreme examples of domestic violence in the U.S.?
SHOULD THIS PRACTICE CONTINUE IN NORTH AMERICA?