Posted on 07/25/2009 2:31:57 AM PDT by Clive
Almost as soon as news broke that the murders of three Afghan-Canadian teenage sisters and their father's first wife in Kingston, Ont., were possible "honour killings," some in the Muslim community reacted in the most predictable fashion: defensiveness and denial.
Instead of voicing outrage at the murders, two Muslim callers to my CFRB radio show in Toronto slammed me for raising the subject, and suggested I had some hidden agenda. "This has nothing to do with Islam," said one caller, despite the fact no one on the show had, to that point, even mentioned the word "Islam," let alone accused the religion of sanctioning honour killings.
The callers were not alone. The head of the Canadian branch of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) told the CBC more or less the same thing - that the story was unrelated to Islam, which apparently does not permit honour killings.
They are both right and wrong. It is true that Islam's holy book, the Koran, does not sanction honour killings. But to deny the fact that many incidents of honour killings are conducted by Muslim fathers, sons and brothers, and that many victims are Muslim women, is to exercise intellectual dishonesty. At worst, it is an attempt to shut off debate.
When Mississauga, Ont., teenager Aqsa Pervez was killed, everyone from Mullahs to so-called Muslim feminists claimed it was not an honour killing - even though there were allegations she had run afoul of her family for socializing with non-Muslim friends and not wearing a hijab. Critics then charged that to refer to the murder in such words was to be an anti-Muslim bigot. Humbug.
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I am surprised they would put that in the paper. After what happened Mark Steyn I bet people are having lawyers review their columns.
They lie about everything.
I read the whole thing.
The whole business is satanic hideousness from hell.
The evil doers will be removed from the earth.
Armageddon is looming closer and closer.
(as this thread attests:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2300721/posts?page=5
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This has nothing to do with Islam,” said one caller,
Really?
Name the religion other then Islam in which family members have slaughtered their young women and killed others for reasons of”family honor” in the past 200 years..
Come on,I am waiting..
Yeah,I thought so....................
Hinduism is the only other example I can think of.
A bolder claim, but perhaps more truthful? What say you? Has anyone heard of "honor killings" happening in other religions?
It happens in Italian opera. I Pagliaggi is one example that comes to mind.
Rigoletto?
Actually, there are still honour killings among Hindu families in India but usually they only happen in the poorer rural areas.
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