Pakistan: Muslim murders wife and daughter because they were sexually assaulted, to restore his honor

MAR 2, 2019 BY ROBERT SPENCER

It is always the woman’s fault. This is the idea behind the hijab, niqab, and other coverings: it is up to women to prevent men from being tempted. If men are tempted anyway, it is the woman’s fault, and the honor of the family must be restored by killing the women involved.

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.”

Until the encouragement Islamic law gives to honor killing is acknowledged and confronted, more women will suffer.

“Police arrest man for murdering wife, daughter,” Express Tribune, February 28, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

KHANEWAL: In a startling disclosure, Kanewal police arrested three suspects, including a man and his son for murdering his wife and daughter a few days ago, Express News reported on Wednesday.

DSP Meher Waseem Siyal said that 45-year-old Nasreen Bibi and her 18-year-old daughter Saima were murdered in Kabeerwala’s Nandpur area on February 5.

He added a few days before the murder incident took place, unidentified suspects, who were believed to be influential, abducted Saima and sexually abused her for three days. He mentioned Saima was then dropped off at her residence three days later.

The DSP highlighted on the day of the incident, when the male members of the family left their home for work, the suspects entered the house and killed both women by strangulation. Meher elaborated that after carrying out the killing the accused hanged the bodies and tried to make the incident seem like a suicide case.

The police official said that a police team carried out detailed investigation into the incident and managed to trace the culprits. He pointed out that the police took Saima’s father Rab Nawaz, her brother Kashif and cousin Talib into custody over suspicion and interrogated them.

DSP Meher Waseem transpired that during interrogations, the culprits confessed to murdering both the women.

He revealed that the accused strangled the victims to death over ‘honour’….