Nearly 1,000 Pakistani women were victims of honour killings last year

[Ziploc Surprise]

Nearly 1,000 Pakistani women were victims of honour killings last year

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-year.html

[Minimalist]

I bet xtians are envious.

[Annik]

This makes me incredibly sad. Religion is just a justification or inspiration for violence.

[Matt231]

Disgusting.

[Ziploc Surprise]

The thing is I think the article may be bullshit in that I don't think they have any real idea how many honor killings are done in that country. I suspect it is much much more. I think the article was written so it could be shared via social media and other means. Notice how short the article is and how easy it is to read. I think the article's purpose is to raise awareness and (hopefully) prod people into action. Though I prefer accurate news stories I shared the article anyway on my FB page. I know too many people who cringe at my insensitivity to Islam.

[Gooders1002]

the Men who do this deserve nothing more then to be castrated with a spoon and sent to jail for life.

[Tempus]

This makes me incredibly sad. Religion is just a justification or inspiration for violence.

Sometimes. Sometimes it's inspiration for artwork, self-improvement and helping others. Even though I think that the religious motivation to do 'good' things comes from poor reasoning, there's no denying that it's there.

[Faith No More]

Is there any basis for such killings in the Koran, or is this just good old fashioned misogyny dressed up as religion?

[Rayaan]

The latter because according to my knowledge, there is no such thing as "honor killing" in Islam as this is not something based on the Quran, Hadiths, nor any other Islamic texts.

http://www.onislam.net/english/ask-the-s...ctive.html

[Minimalist]

Yet it seems to happen over and over.....


http://www.islamist-watch.org/928/does-i...r-killings

Honor killings are justified under Islam in some Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia. For example, tenth-grade textbooks teach Saudi children that it is permissible to kill adulterers. In April 2008, a girl was killed by her father for talking to a boy on Facebook, an online social networking website. A leading Saudi cleric, Sheikh Ali al-Maliki, was outraged that girls had access to such websites where they could post pictures of themselves and otherwise "behave badly," but showed no concern over the girl actually killed.

Honor killings are justified as a necessary part of culture in other Muslim countries such as Jordan, which is technically a secular kingdom with a representative parliament. In 2001 King Abdallah presented a bill outlining stiff penalties for honor killings, but parliament rejected it, stating, "it [punishing honor killings] would encourage adultery and create new social problems." Four years later, honor killings accounted for one-third of all violent deaths in Jordan in 2005, where perpetrators received as little as six months in prison under the penal code.

Secular Iraq offers no punishment. Consider the following anecdotal evidence. This year, a 17-year-old named Rand Abdel-Qader was killed by her father because she had a crush on a British soldier. The arresting Iraqi sergeant stated that "not much can be done when we have an 'honor killing' case. You are in a Muslim society and women should live under religious laws." The father also killed his wife, who left him after the murder of their daughter. He will not be prosecuted for either murder in Iraq.

Perhaps this is a chicken and egg question, Rayaan. Does "Islam" create barbarous societies or do barbarous societies embrace Islam?