Washington state: Muslim parents attempt
honor killing of their daughter
She may have been resisting being sent to Iraq for an arranged marriage to an older man.
In the Qur’an, a mysterious figure, known as Khidr in Islamic tradition, kills a boy in an apparently random and gratuitous attack. He then explains: “And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. So we intended that their Lord should substitute for them one better than him in purity and nearer to mercy.” (18:80-81)
And according to Islamic law, “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.” However, “not subject to retaliation” is “a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring.” (Reliance of the Traveller o1.1-2).
Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but “the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour ‘provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.’” And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that “Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.”
Lacey parents charged in possible attempted honor killing of daughter
by Jennifer Dowling, Fox 13 Seattle, November 8, 2024 (thanks to Ken):
LACEY, Wash. – A Lacey father and mother are charged with attempted murder, attempted kidnapping and assault after being accused of trying to kill their teen daughter in what the victim described as a possible honor killing.
Prosecutors say the Timberline High School student was attacked by her parents outside the school after she tried to escape the family.
Her boyfriend stepped in to try to help during the attack, and police say he was also assaulted and suffered injuries. His father, Victor Barnes, says the attack happened near a school bus stop, while the girl was trying to get a ride to a shelter for safety.
Disturbing video caught on a cell phone by a witness shows the dad choking her under a tree as other students tried to intervene to save her. Lacey Police say they have the cell phone video and are investigating.
“There’s dad. There’s the daughter underneath dad,” said Barnes, pointing to the video that has since been turned into police.
Barnes says the video shows Ihsan Ali choking his teen daughter from behind, her face shoved in the dirt.
“That’s my son fighting for the girl’s life,” he said, pointing to a portion of video in which his son was pulling at Ishan to try to get him off his daughter.
Court documents state that she reported abuse by both Ishan, her father, and her mother, Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali prior to the incident.
She also told investigators her parents had also planned to forcefully send her to Iraq to marry an older man and had threatened to kill her….
Why do we westerners invite people from the Dark Ages into modern countries where they simply will not adjust to civilization? What madness!
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