2011-12-03, 04:02 PM
From Wikipedia on Honor Killing
One salient point it seems people have been missing is that the (later) article states her crime was not being raped, but reporting it late. It doesn't say how late but I would assume it was when she discovered she was pregnant. This makes her suspect of willingly engaging in extra-marital sex, which is apparently a crime in Afghanistan.
wikipedia Wrote:According to Widney, Brown, the advocacy director of Human Rights Watch, deaths by family members are mostly labeled honor killings in Islamic countries. However, as noted by Tahira Shaid Khan, a professor of womens issues in Pakistan, within the Qur'an there is no mentioning of anything that allows for or justifies honor killings.[18] The first and most basic right in the Qur'an that every Muslim is expected to follow is, in fact, the right to life. [19] As written in the Qur'an,
That if anyone slays a human being unless it be [in punishment] for murder or for spreading corruption on earth it shall be as though he had slain all mankind; whereas, if anyone saves a life, it shall be as though he had saved the lives of all mankind. (5:32) .[20]
It is thus believed that it is not Islam as a religion, but Islamic culture, and the prominent and long-standing view that women are considered property, as the sources of for honor killings.
One salient point it seems people have been missing is that the (later) article states her crime was not being raped, but reporting it late. It doesn't say how late but I would assume it was when she discovered she was pregnant. This makes her suspect of willingly engaging in extra-marital sex, which is apparently a crime in Afghanistan.