I am sorry about the treatment of Muslim women but they have been treated that way forever and there is nothing we can do about it. And it happens all over the world, not just in Muslim countries. They are often forced to marry men who rape and beat them. Their whole lives are controlled by their fathers and husbands.
"Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because God has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them." -- Qur'an 4:34
We would like to protect these women but you can't control these religious fanatics who care nothing for human life. At least in western countries there is punishment!
Islamic apologists will again assure us that honor killing has nothing to do with Islam and is a cultural practice followed by a wide variety of peoples -- and yet Muslim girls keep getting killed in disproportionate numbers. No one, of course, dares to confront the root of the problem by pointing out such inconvenient truths as the fact that a manual of Islamic law certified by Al-Azhar as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy says that "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." ('Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2).
There are not enough beds at the Cookoos Nest to hold all these idiots!
On Monday, 12 April 2010, Sherin Zayed (al-‘Attar), from Beit Lahia town in the northern the Gaza Strip, was killed allegedly to “maintain family honor.”
According to the field follow-up of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), at approximately 11:50 on Monday, 12 April 2010, the body of Sherin Khamis Zayed (al-‘Attar), 32, was brought to Martyr Kamal ‘Edwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, as she was hit by several bullets to the head and the chest. The chief of police in Beit Lahia town, Sameh al-Sultan, told a PCHR fieldworker that the police opened an investigation into the incident and arrested a number of the victim’s relatives, including her father. The father told the police that five masked gunmen raided his house on Monday morning and pulled his daughter outside the house and fired at her. Data provided by the police indicates that this crime was committed allegedly to “maintain family honor.”
Muslim kills daughter in Arizona because she became ‘too Westernised’ Oct. 20, 2010 Noor Faleh Almaleki, originally from Iraq, died this week of injuries suffered when she was run over October 20 in a parking lot in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria, Arizona. Peoria police said Faleh Hassan Almaleki believed his daughter had become “too Westernized” and had abandoned “traditional” Iraqi values. http://freethinker.co.uk/2009/11/05/muslim-kills-daughter-in-arizona-because-she-became-too-westernised/
Banaz Mahmod, 20, London, July 19, 2007 A Kurdish woman was brutally raped, stamped on and strangled by members of her family and their friends in an "honor killing" carried out at her London home because she had fallen in love with the wrong man.
Banaz Mahmod, 20, was subjected to the 2-1/2 hour ordeal before she was garroted with a bootlace. Her body was stuffed into a suitcase and taken about 100 miles to Birmingham where it was buried in the back garden of a house.
Her badly decomposed body was found in April 2006, three months after the killing.A Kurdish woman was brutally raped, stamped on and strangled by members of her family and their friends in an "honor killing" carried out at her London home because she had fallen in love with the wrong man. Last month a jury found her father Mahmod Mahmod, 52, and his brother Ari Mahmod, 51, guilty of murder after a three-month trial. Their associate Mohamad Hama, 30, had earlier admitted killing her. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1919223520070719
Islamic honor killing in Jordan: father murders pregnant unmarried daughter The father stabbed the girl with a sword 25 times in her stomach, killing her immediately as well as her unborn baby boy.". Around 15-20 women are murdered each year in Jordan in the name of honour, despite government efforts to fight such crimes. So far this year, 17 cases have been reported. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/10/islamic-honor-killing-in-australia-father-murders-pregnant-unmarried-daughter.html
Indonesian Man Murders, Slices Up Wife With Kitchen Knife Because of Nagging Jakarta Globe | July 19, 2010 An Indonesian man allegedly strangled his wife to death and then spent nine hours carving up her body with a kitchen knife because of her constant nagging, police in West Java said on Monday.
Adjutant Comr. Agung Masloman, chief detective with Bandung Police, confirmed that police had arrested Yaya Sujana, 45, a carpenter, for the murder and dismemberment of his wife, Liliana, 40, in their house in the Soreang Indah housing complex on Wednesday night.
'Moderate Muslim' murders wife Islam-style 2/20/2009 Muzzammil Hassan Muzzammil Hassan went to the police station in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park and told police that his wife was dead and that her body could be found at his business, Bridges TV. Officers went to the location and found the decapitated body of 37-year-old Aasiya Hassan. They charged her 44-year old husband with second degree murder. He is the president and founder of Bridges TV, where he was trying to create bridges between the Muslim world and the Western world, trying to show the Western world what Islam is truly about, to go against the stereotype what Muslims are all about."
February 21. 2007 Blackburn, Lancashire, UK Muslim Honor Killing: Wife & Daughters Four Burned Alive Mohammed Riaz made every conceivable attempt to prevent his wife and daughters enjoying their Westernised lifestyle. He destroyed their clothes - modest by Western standards but tight fitting by his own - when they came out of the wash and he railed against plans to allow alcohol at his terminally ill son's 18th birthday party. http://www.iris.org.il/blog/archives/2250-UK-Muslim-Honor-Killing-Wife-Daughters-Burned-Alive.html
Muslim slays daughter in 'honor killing' Sept. 29, 2003 Kurdish refugee didn't approve of teen's relationship with Christian boy By stabbing his daughter in the neck, Abdalla Yones, 48, was performing what in the Muslim world is considered an "honor killing," an attack on a relative who has brought shame to the family. The murder occurred in the family's home in Acton, West London, according to the London Times. Her father, a strict Muslim, did not approve of her western lifestyle. She wanted to be with her friends and use a mobile phone quite often. http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=21025
Jordan Honor Killing: Man Confesses To Brutally Stabbing To Death Pregnant Sister 4/12/2009 AMMAN, Jordan — A Jordanian man confessed to stabbing to death his pregnant sister and mutilating her body to protect the family honor, said Jordanian authorities on Sunday.
Prosecutor Mohammed al-Tarawneh said the man turned himself into police and has been charged with murder.
The 28-year-old married woman was five months pregnant and stabbed repeatedly in the face, neck, abdomen and back as well as being hacked up with a meat cleaver, according to government pathologist Awad al-Tarawneh.
Police familiar with the case said the woman had moved back in with her family after an argument with her husband six months earlier. The brother believed that she had then started seeing other men.
The names of those involved have not been released.
The incident, the ninth such case this year and the second this month, took place in the village of Basira, in the conservative Bedouin heartland of southern Jordan.
Strict tribal and religious values are enforced in these villages, including the belief that women carry the family's honor.
Around two dozen women are killed each year in these conservative areas of Jordan by male relatives who typically accuse them of besmirching the family honor through adultery or having sex outside of marriage.
International human rights organizations have condemned honor killings in Jordan and appealed to King Abdullah II to put an end to the practice.