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The Arab and Muslim world are, by nature, chronically violent. In addition to tribal and family feuds, religious and political wars are ever-constant, as are slavers, gun-runners, pirates, tyrants, torturers, and garden-variety thieves and gangsters. Add the routine and savage persecution of non-Muslims and Muslim dissidents, the savage subordination of women, the rise of jihadic terrorism and foreign wars to this mix, stir, and you've got the modern Middle East.
The despicable, repetitive phenomenon of murder…of innocent women under the pretence of ‘honor killings’ must be condemned in the harshest manner possible…Acts such as the defendant’s bear no honor. They bear only shame and disgrace. The court is disgusted by the defendant’s decision to be his sister’s executioner.
For example, in 1997, in a small village in Jordan, 21-year-old Rania Arafat was honor-murdered by her younger brother, who was chosen precisely because minors receive a reduced sentence. Her aunts ordered her murder because she refused an arranged marriage and then dared to elope with an Iraqi man of her own choosing. Rania’s killer probably did not spend more than a few months in jail.
In 2003, Rofayda Qaoud of Abu Qash in the West Bank was murdered by her mother Amira Qaoud, who put a plastic bag over her head and sliced her wrists with a razor. Her crime? Rofayda had been raped by her two brothers and impregnated. Her mother-killer, Amira, was expected to receive at most three to five years in prison. It is not clear if she did so.
In 2005, a group of Hamas gunmen shot 20-year-old Yusra al-Azzam to death after they found her picnicking on the beach with a man. The man, it turned out, was her fiancé. Hamas disavowed the killings but released the killers because they were related to a powerful Gaza clan. The Mufti of Gaza later ordered that 25,000 Jordanian dinars ($35,000) of “blood money” be paid to the al-Azzam family.
But what is really going on in Lod, a city which is nine miles from Tel Aviv and the home of Israel's large international airport?
The Israeli police claim that 11 of the recent murders (three in the last month alone) which took place in Lod were honor murders; they have arrested two professional killers who were hired by families to "cleanse their shame." Both cases involved women engaging in unacceptable relationships with men.
In a sense, what is happening in Lod is a miniature version of the problem that Europe now faces with a non-integrated Muslim population. Illiterate, unskilled immigrants from rural areas of Turkey, Morocco, Algeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc. have flooded Europe. They watch Jihadic programs via satellite television, and attend fiery reactionary sermons. Many, not all, have little desire to become modern or western; they view doing so as an act of shameful surrender. Many, not all, are now also theologically and politically radicalized. They are also honor murdering their women and attacking the police, both verbally and physically, accusing their adopted countries of "racism" and "discrimination," and demanding a place for their customs: Sharia law, face-veiled women, gender-segregated public facilities, halal food, etc.
lahsol
Please stay on topic and don't try to divert the discussion. This seed is about Arab honor killing. If you wish to discuss another topic, you are free to post your own seed.
lahsol
Comment deleted....You are trying to divert thediscusssion from the scope of the seeded article. If you want to talk about another subject, please seed your own article.
lashol
please vent your anger elsewhere.
You have neither read the article or the responses in the comments. You are trolling.
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