Oct 14 2008
Muslims Upset That We Call Murder What It Is
Back in January I posted about the ‘honor killings’ of Amina and Sarah Said. The latest atrocity by adherents of the ‘religion of peace’ was not in Islamabad or even Bagdhad, but in Lewisville, Texas. Now FoxNews reports that Muslims are upset that we have the audacity to call them on their barbarous behavior.
“As far as we’re concerned, until the motive is proven in a court of law, this is [just] a homicide,” Mustafaa Carroll, the executive director of the Council of American-Islamic Relations in Dallas, told FOXNews.com.
He said he worries that terms like “honor killing” may stigmatize the Islamic community. “We (Muslims) don’t have the market on jealous husbands … or domestic violence,” Carroll said.
The United Nations estimates that 5,000 women are killed worldwide every year in honor killings — mostly in the Middle East, where many countries still have laws that protect men who murder female relatives they believe have engaged in inappropriate activity. A U.N. report includes chilling examples of such cases.
“On the order of clerics, an 18-year-old woman was flogged to death in Batsail, Bangladesh, for “immoral behavior,” the report reads. “In Egypt, a father paraded his daughter’s severed head through the streets shouting, ‘I avenged my honor.’”
But Islamic scripture in no way condones such actions, Carroll said.
“People have their own cultural nuances and norms from before they got their religion,” he said. “This is not Islamic culture.”
Maybe not, but it happens an order of magnitude more frequently under militant Islam than, say, in the Lutheran community.
October 15th, 2008 at 08:01 am
[...] Steve at Careful Thought has been following this story since January and addresses the “Honor killings are not Islamic culture,” argument: Maybe not, but it happens an order of magnitude more frequently under militant Islam than, say, in the Lutheran community. [...]