Honor Killing is not in ISLAM

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Honor Killing is not in ISLAM

Well, Today I’m going to discuss about Honor Killing.

There are hundred of websites, which blames Honor Killing is Islamic…

Many of the countries most notorious for honor killing are Arab or
Muslim countries; Pakistan, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and Palestine. This
feeds a general impression that honor killing is somehow related to
Islam, which feeds into a general xenophobia against Muslims; and the
phenomenon is used by racists and xenophobes as yet another stick with
which to beat Muslims, attempting to characterize these murders as a
‘pious act’, approved by Islam.

Islam strictly prohibits murder and killing without legal
justification.

Allah, Most High, says,
“Whoso slayeth a believer of set purpose, his reward is Hell for ever.
Allah is wroth against him and He hath cursed him and prepared for him
an awful doom.” (An-Nisa’: 93)

The so-called “honor killing” is based on ignorance and disregard of
morals and laws, which cannot be abolished except by disciplinary
punishments.

Muslims kill there females for there honor and to confirm the facts
they show us few crimes done by Muslims. And I’m not afraid to say
they are mostly Christians and Hindus (not all but few).

But Let’s Check the other facts….

In India, for example, many such murders are committed by Hindus and
Sikhs. For some Hindus, an honor killing may be motivated by a woman
marrying across caste boundaries. In 2003, a young couple who fell in
love at University and contracted a secret marriage. Her family
disapproved of the match due to his low status in the caste system.
They were both forced to drink poison with scores of witnesses to
their agonising deaths.

Most cases in India occur in Punjab and Haryana (in which two
provinces one out of every ten murders is an honor killing) and parts
of western Uttar Pradesh. Many of these murders are ordered by an
informal judicial system of caste panchayat, which is a self-
proclaimed body consisting of village elders, from which women are
excluded. Mangal Singh, a Sikh interviewed in Amritsar, claimed that
the 17 women and children killed within his family were willing
‘martyrs’ in the name of family pride.

Honor killing also happens in Christian communities in the
Mediterranean and other regions. The culture of Ancient Rome allowed
the father to kill his children if he deemed necessary. Honor killing
was only abolished as a specific category in Italy in 1981, and
murders in the name of honor still occur in the country. In 2006,
Bruna Morito was shot six times in the face by her brother for bearing
a child outside marriage. In Brazil, men could be acquitted for
murdering their wives up until 1991, and there have been 800 recorded
such murders in a single year. Even in 1991, a lower court ignored the
ruling of the Supreme Court and acquitted Joao Lopes for the double
homicide of his wife and her lover. In fact, the opposition of the
woman as the vessel of familial honor and the man as its protector was
widespread throughout the southern European region, although it is not
clear how many murders are committed in the name of honor at the
present time.

Even within the Middle East, honor killing is not restricted to
Muslims. In Yemen, a Jewish father killed his daughter after a rebuke
from the rabbi for her extra-marital pregnancy, and in Palestine, in
2005; Faten Habash was beaten to death with an iron bar, wielded by
her Christian father because she wanted to marry her Muslim boyfriend.

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