Sep 22 2008
Another ‘Honor Killing’ in Britain
Sharia victims
Last week I posted about the British decision to allow muslims to practice and enforce Sharia law within the kingdom. Now the Jawa Report passes on this tidbit about Yasmine Larbi-Cherif, 22, and her 19-year-old sister Sabrina, the latest victims of Sharia ‘justice’. The girls’ brother was apparently upset that the two were becoming too westernized. Here’s Jawa:
The brother [of] two sisters [who] were murdered in their flat last week has been arrested for their murder.
Via BBC: A man from Birmingham has been charged with the murder of two women who were found dead at their flat in the city.The bodies of Yasmine Larbi-Cherif, 22, and her 19-year-old sister Sabrina were discovered on Monday.
Forensic tests revealed the pair, who lived at Jupiter Apartments near the city centre, died of stab wounds.
The original BBC report about the murders described the scene as…
challenging, forensically”. He added there was a “substantial amount of blood” inside many of the rooms.
Sounds like these girls brother used the standard humane ROP method of killing. He beheaded them or cut their throats.
Which makes the questions in this weekly standard article all the more relevant.
That being said, I see three significant issues. First, there is a question about rights that are due to specific political communities. Are the rights provided to women under British marriage or inheritance law a baseline that they are due, or can they freely contract to be given fewer rights? We have in fact already seen this happen under the sharia tribunals. In a recent inheritance dispute described by the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal’s Siddiqi, a deceased man’s estate was divided between his three daughters and two sons. The Times reports: “The judges on the panel gave the sons twice as much as the daughters, in accordance with sharia. Had the family gone to a normal British court, the daughters would have got equal amounts.”This fact raises a question about how voluntary individuals’ accession to the sharia tribunals will actually be. Are women (for example) going to be forced by their families into marriages under sharia that provide them with fewer rights than they would have under British law?
Well the women could obviously choose to not use the Sharia court. Of course there will be, er, uh, reactions from the Muslim community for choosing British common law over Sharia. A girl who wants to keep her head needs to keep that in mind.
Has Britain become so fearful of the devils in their midst that they abandon any remaining shred of dignity - and sovereignty? Where’s Margaret Thatcher when you need her? Look for Sharia law and more ‘honor killings’ coming to a country near you.
