Honor Killings are normal in Islamic nations governed by Sharia Law.
These murderous attacks on females are common in Turkey and countries of the Middle East, according to UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund. UNICEF defines the practice as one “in which men kill female relatives in the name of family ‘honor’ for forced or suspected sexual activity outside marriage, even when they have been victims of rape.”
Human Rights Watch defines “honor killings” as follows:
Honor crimes are acts of violence, usually murder, committed by male family members against female family members, who are held to have brought dishonor upon the family. A woman can be targeted by (individuals within) her family for a variety of reasons, including: refusing to enter into an arranged marriage, being the victim of a sexual assault, seeking a divorce — even from an abusive husband — or (allegedly) committing adultery. The mere perception that a woman has behaved in a way that “dishonors” her family is sufficient to trigger an attack on her life.
But why is Islam only targetting women and where is the outcry from the feminist movement?
The earliest honor killing on US soil I can remember was in April 24, 2004 from an article published by Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.
April 24, 2004) — Ismail Peltek, who was indicted Friday on charges of second-degree murder in the April 15 slaying of his wife, Hatice Peltek, claimed he attacked his wife and daughters after learning that his brother had molested his wife and his 22-year-old daughter, according to court documents.
Peltek, 41, said he attacked his 4-year-old daughter because she had been “sullied” by a gynecological exam.”I was concerned that my family’s honor was taken,” he allegedly told investigators. …
His 39-year-old wife died after being stabbed repeatedly and bludgeoned on the head with a hammer.
His daughters suffered fractured skulls from hammer blows.
”If you had the opportunity to kill the family again, would you?” he was asked by Rochester police Officer Emre Arican, who was brought in to help investigators because he speaks Turkish.
”My female family, yes. My male family, no,” Peltek allegedly replied. …
More recently, Sunday July 10, Chaudhry Rashid, a Pakistani immigrant living in Clayton County, Georgia, strangled his daughter to death. According to police, Rashid explained to them that he had killed his daughter, Sandeela Kanwal, in order to restore his family’s honor, which she had sullied by planning to divorce the husband to whom she had been given in an arranged marriage. Clayton County Police spokesman Tim Owens explained: “Apparently she and the father had argued over the marriage and the fact that it was arranged, and at some point during the altercation he did end up killing his daughter.”
Robert Spencer, Director of Jihad watch broke the story. He contends Americans must understand that this crime is the direct result of political correctness and a failure to confront the ugly realities of Islam. “We’ve let people into the country who believe it is justified for them to kill their daughters if they’ve sullied the honor of their family,” he asserts. “And nobody is even facing the problem. Everybody is making excuses for it and saying it’s not an Islamic problem, so the Islamic roots of it are unchallenged,” argues Spencer.
He believes American liberals are more concerned about fundamentalist Christians. “Feminists seem to be more concerned about preserving their right to an abortion than about people who are doing things that are much more threatening to the equality of rights of women than anything the Christian fundamentalists are doing,” Spencer adds.
Spencer states that no one will examine the question of unrestricted Islamic immigration in light of this problem.
Source: OneNewsNow.com
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