Honor Killin's: Any Muslim care to comment

[NZman]

Honor Slottin. News from the Beeb


Pakistan
The practice of honour killings in Pakistan has been highlighted and strongly condemned in a report by the human rights group, Amnesty International.
Hundreds of women die each year in Pakistan as a result of honour killings, according to the report.
Amnesty says many of the killings go unreported and in almost all cases the perpetrators, who are often close family members, go unpunished.
Women also live in fear of torture and violence, their basic human rights ignored, says Amnesty.
The report says that women become the victims of honour killings for a variety of reasons.
Women, for example, seeking to make their own decision about who they will marry, can be accused of undermining family honour.
Women seeking divorce or women who have been raped are also at risk.
Lenient judges
Pakistan jurists insist that, in law, killing someone for reasons of honour is not a mitigating circumstance.
But in Islamic practice, many judges do view honour killings leniently and few of those responsible for them serve long sentences. Indeed, few are ever prosecuted at all.
Amnesty says that wide-ranging legal reforms and public awareness campaigns are needed if the number of honour killings is to be reduced.
The issue has been prominent in Pakistan ever since Samia Sarwar, a young woman filing for a divorce, was killed in her lawyer's office.
Eyewitnesses said that Samia's mother was in the office watching as her daughter was shot dead.
But no one has been charged with her murder and a resolution condemning her killing was defeated in Pakistan's Senate.

Jordan
Two women have been killed in Jordan in the latest instances of "honour crimes" for what is described as immoral behaviour, according to reports from the capital Amman.
In one case, a 40-year-old woman who had been released after serving a three-year prison sentence for a relationship with her stepson was shot dead by her father when she arrived home.
In the second, a 21-year-old married woman was killed in her home by her brother for suspected extra-marital relations.
The two killings bring to seven the number of reported "honour crimes" committed in Jordan since the beginning of the year.
Protests
The Jordan Times reported that when arrested, the brother said he had acted "for reasons of honour".
Official figures show that at least 25 women die every year in so-called honour killings, one of the highest per capita rates in the world, in this country of 4.8 million.
Last year the Jordanian parliament rejected a government bill to abolish an article in the Penal Code which exempts a man from punishment if he kills a female relative after discovering her committing adultery.
A petition launched by the National Jordanian Campaign to Eliminate Crimes of Honour gathered thousands of signatures calling on parliament to back the bill.
The group says these crimes occur mostly among poor, uneducated families.
There have been reports that about thirty honour crimes take place a year in Lebanon, although local women's groups there say the figure is higher.

Any Comments Dude's

I fink yous silence speaks volumes
To be continued...
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[Nonson]

Islamiscists,

Any comments?


-Nonson-

[Nonson]

TAP,

Of the hundred or so sites dealing with Islamic oppression of women: (http://afghan.rawa.org/rawa/index.html) is the one dealing in earth-bound realities.


-Nonson-

[Nonson]

TAP,

Burying one's head in the sand leaves one's derriere in a most inviting position.

The shocking images which you words convey leads me to believe that it might be a deliberate attempt on your part to measure my moral standards.


-Nonson-

[Nonson]

TAP,

When becoming a member of a forum you need to check your paranoia and presumptions at home. Or are you just another nut who attempts to put the world in step with your biasnesses and prejudices?

You made a stupid statement that evokes a certain image. Therefore, you are the cause of that which you are complaining about. If you don't like the responses you get to your posts, then don't post.

If you are, perchance, a femnazi out for a kill, then screw your asinine little ploys that sucks someone in for the sole reason of giving you something on which to b!tch.

You truely don't want to mess with me.

-Nonson-

[Nonson]

TAP,

So you had second thoughts about pursuing the matter. Going so far as to delete your stupid post?


-Nonson-

[NZman]

Well I is gutted,

I has missed all the fun & games. So Tappy is you in favor of slottin' lippy women, or is you just sooooooooooo P.C. that you dunt want dudes to asks these questions

Hello, Nonson, How's things Nice to see yous still here.

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