[ April 19, 2024 ]
Honor killings and honor violence are escalating here and abroad. The problem is that we can’t talk about the problem. Anyone who does is denounced as an “Islamophobe,” since over 91% of honor killings worldwide are Islamic.
According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, “In the name of preserving family ‘honor,’ women and girls are shot, stoned, burned, buried alive, strangled, smothered and knifed to death with horrifying regularity.” Between 5,000 and 20,000 so-called honor killings are committed each year, based on long-held beliefs that any female who commits — or is suspected of committing — an “immoral” act should be killed to “restore honor” to her family.
But of course that number is far higher.
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Because so many honor killings are never reported — and because international organizations are discouraged from keeping statistics on such politically sensitive practices — no one knows how many honor killings occur each year.
“Woman killed ‘for honour,’” Dawn, June 16, 2014 (thanks to Halal Pork Shop):
HYDERABAD: Brothers of a woman, who married for love without the consent of her family, shot at stabbed to death her husband and left her injured in an attack on their house in Latifabad Unit No12 on Sunday, said police.
A-Section police station SHO Sikandar Bhatti said that Nabeel, 25, and Samina Rani Rao, 22, daughter of Idrees, who were neighbours married in court on Feb 4 without the consent of the girl’s family and fled to Karachi after the wedlock for fear of the family’s backlash. They had been in hiding since the marriage.
On Sunday, the brothers of Samina learnt about their presence in Nabeel’s parents house. They barged into the house, stabbed and shot at Nabeel, and tortured Samina, said police.
The SHO said that one of four brothers of the girl named Zahid had been arrested and a pistol had been recovered from him. Samina suffered minor injuries. Police said the case had not been registered so far.
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