‘Honor killings’ in USA raise concerns
From Creeping Sharia:
By creepingTwo good signs in this USA Today piece. First, the acknowledgment of honor killings by Muslims in the U.S. Second, they didn’t quote CAIR. Unfortunately, they did quote MPAC which espouses a similar point of Islamist view. By Oren Dorell, USA TODAY:
Muslim immigrant men have been accused of six “honor killings” in the United States in the past two years, prompting concerns that the Muslim community and police need to do more to stop such crimes.
“There is broad support and acceptance of this idea in Islam, and we’re going to see it more and more in the United States,” says Robert Spencer, who has trained FBI and military authorities on Islam and founded Jihad Watch, which monitors radical Islam.
Honor killings are generally defined as murders of women by relatives who claim the victim brought shame to the family. Thousands of such killings have occurred in Muslim countries such as Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan and Palestinian territories, according to the World Health Organization.
Some clerics and even lawmakers in these countries have said families have the right to commit honor killings as a way of maintaining values, according to an analysis by Yotam Feldner in the journal Middle East Quarterly.
Phyllis Chesler, who wrote about honor killings in her book Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman, says police need to focus on the crimes’ co-conspirators if they wish to reverse the trend. Before 2008, there were six honor killings in the USA in the previous 18 years, according to her research.
“It’s usually the father, brother or first male cousin who is charged with the actual shooting or stabbing, (but not) the mother who lures the girl home,” Chesler says. “The religion has failed to address this as a problem and failed to seriously work to abolish it as un-Islamic.”
The Obama Administration, who have been outspoken defenders and promoters of Islam, have been silent on the issue of honor killings. For more background, watch this National Geographic special on honor killings.
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