Fresh 'honour killing' in Jordan: brothers hacked their two sisters to death

BBC News On Line ^ | 2003/09/10 | Unsigned

[aculeus]

The unidentified sisters, aged 20 and 27, were killed with axes in the capital Amman on Monday, according to a report in the Jordan Times newspaper.

Officials told the paper the three brothers - who are in detention - admitted that they carried out the killing for reasons of "family honour".

On Sunday Jordan's parliament rejected a bill imposing harsher penalties for such killings, which are often carried out by brothers and fathers against women deemed to have soiled the family's reputation.

Getting off lightly

The 27-year-old left her family home nearly two years ago to marry a man without her family's consent, the paper says.

Her 20-year-old sister ran away three months ago to join her.

Tipped on their whereabouts, the brothers went to their home with axes, and hacked their sisters to death, the paper says.

"It was a brutal scene. One victim's head was nearly cut clean off," an official is quoted as saying.

The older sister's 10-month-old baby and her husband escaped unharmed, according to the report.

The killings bring to 12 the number of women reported killed for reasons of "family honour" in Jordan this year, the Jordan Times says.

Under the existing law, people found guilty of committing honour killings often receive sentences as light as six months in prison.

[aculeus]

All cultures are equal.

[curmudgeonII]

All cultures are equal.

But some cultures are more equal than others [Apologies to George Orwell.]

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Muslims are more afraid of womens's rights than they are of death........and Jews!!

[polemikos]

Multiculturalism is EVIL.

Why? Because it assumes all cultures are equally valid or at least worthy of (governmental) protection. Objectively, many cultures are poisonous, evil, vile, self-corrupting, etc. If all cultures were equal then all incomes, lifestyles, and outcomes would be equal. Simply let all cultures compete for the hearts and minds of the populace and may the best one win.

Multiculturalism is not couscous; it is the stoning of adulterers.

Are William Shakespeare and a Middle East suicide bomber culturally equivalent?

In some cultures they love their relatives, in others they eat them. Do you have a preference?

Every multiculturalist believes - whether he knows it or not - that it is right:
- to force young girls into marriages they don't want
- to deprive them of the schooling and careers that they do want
- to regard them as prostitutes if they leave their abusive husbands
- to punish, even to kill, those who cross cultural and religious boundaries.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Jordan, where the "moderate" Muslims live.

[visualops]

You need the "religion of pieces" alert.

[MarkT]

Aw, c'mon folks - these are just some peaceful, fun loving Muslims out to live their own lives/religion. Cut them some slack - Muslims have an inalienable right to pursue their religious tenets because all people / religions are created equal - the fact some women got gutted and killed is nothing more than an example of the intensity of the religious fervor of a couple of the practicioners of the Muslim faith. , just maybe, some fuc*ing Muslim will actually get to thinking, pursuant to a religious tenet, that this fuc*ing dark ages, old testament religion is just a tad screwed up - who knows, maybe there are actually some Muslims with a little integrity and compassion - frankly, I think that there must be a modern crusade in which most, if not all, Muslims should be killed. Yours in Christ...

[Riverman94610]

To me,the real tragedy is that these barbaric practices are most likely condoned by many in the Muslim world who see the West and all the decadence and moral rot and say"Not here,baby"!
So we have these two extremes going on-the absolute flaunting of immorality and perversion here and in Europe and the completely reactionary and savage medeival suppressions of some in the Islamic world.
Can we ever have some BALANCE in this world?

[sneakers]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - these people are nuts. This earth doesn't need their sick religion and the fake god they kill for.

[Gritty]

Celebrate Diversity!

[quark]

And from the American Femi-Nazis: Silence.

[colorado tanker]

I'm sure if you dig deep enough you'll find that the reason muslims abuse women is all America's fault.

[Dog Gone]

It must be a great honor to kill your kids. Of course, we do it here too, but we generally try to do it before birth.

[Publius6961]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - these people are nuts. This earth doesn't need their sick religion and the fake god they kill for.

For pete's sake, lighten up!

These are the moderates.

Just ask any of the brainless palestinian brotherhood which posts here regularly.

[TheCrusader]

"In some cultures they love their relatives, in others they eat them."

They don't eat clowns in any culture. That's because they taste funny. :o)

[Paleo Conservative]

Are William Shakespeare and a Middle East suicide bomber culturally equivalent?

Hell no! William Shakespeare is just another dead white European male.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Is time for the nuclear option ye? I think Islamism are like cancer. Someone is going to have to wipe out that religion totally.

I know Armageddon will do it, but maybe we could jump on it a little early.

[TheCrusader]

"And from the American Femi-Nazis: Silence."

The American feminists would rather die than take a stand beside conservatives. And it is conservatives who are fighting the war against the evil of Islam. Liberals have been trying to subvert this war on 'terror', (code word for Islam), since President Bush announced we would be attacking Afghanistan. You just know that American liberals would accept a turban and a forced study of the koran before they'd drop their multicultural rot and admit that Islam is regressive, cruel, dangerous and deadly.

[hellinahandcart]

Oh my God, they used axes on their own sisters. I can't think of a thing to say this that would be bad enough.

[hellinahandcart]

Can we ever have some BALANCE in this world?

Fraid not; I think the top's about to spin out, and there's nothing we can do about it.