Gotta love those honor killings

Why did they burn her alive too?

Just to make you feel happy and secure, most of the guys you see on the streets of Doha walking in white pyjamas and driving the heavy trucks are exactly the same pakistani patans, which do the "honor killings" at their home country. Same behaviour, same education.

I often read articles which suggest - that honour killing is a muslim thing . In fact -as far as I know- it is rooted in hinduism . I do read often the news of india - and such things are reported daily - though not published much in western media .

she is considered to have been raped- as she was kidnapped -and this way - she brought stain on the family s honour . this is the way there - as women s rape is viewed . the victims are killed - or forced into suicide .

Countries where the law can be interpreted to allow men to kill female relatives in a premeditated effort as well as for crimes of passions, in flagrante delicto in the act of committing adultery, include:

* Jordan: Part of article 340 of the Penal Code states that "he who discovers his wife or one of his female relatives committing adultery and kills, wounds, or injures one of them, is exempted from any penalty." [6] This has twice been put forward for cancellation by the government, but was retained by the Lower House of the Parliament.[20]

Countries that allow men to kill female relatives in flagrante delicto (but without premeditation) include:

* Syria: Article 548 states that "He who catches his wife or one of his ascendants [sic], descendants or sister committing adultery (flagrante delicto) or illegitimate sexual acts with another and he killed or injured one or both of them benefits from an exemption of penalty."

Countries that allow husbands to kill only their wives in flagrante delicto (based upon the Napoleonic code) include:

* Morocco: Article 418 of the Penal Code states "Murder, injury and beating are excusable if they are committed by a husband on his wife as well as the accomplice at the moment in which he surprises them in the act of adultery."

* Haiti: Article 269 of the Penal Code states that "in the case of adultery as provided for in Article 284, the murder by a husband of his wife and/or her partner, immediately upon discovering them in flagrante delicto in the conjugal abode, is to be pardoned."

* Turkey: In Turkey, persons found guilty of this crime are sentenced to life in prison.[21]

* In two Latin American countries, similar laws were struck down over the past two decades: according to human rights lawyer Julie Mertus "in Brazil, until 1991 wife killings were considered to be noncriminal 'honor killings'; in just one year, nearly eight hundred husbands killed their wives. Similarly, in Colombia, until 1980, a husband legally could kill his wife for committing adultery."[22]

Countries where honor killing is not legal but is frequently in practice include:

* Pakistan: Honor killings are known as Karo Kari (Urdu: کاروکاری ). The practice is supposed to be prosecuted under ordinary murder, but in practice police and prosecutors often ignore it.[23] Often a man must simply claim the killing was for his honor and he will go free.

Source for below article

http://en.wikipedia....

As of 2004, honor killings have occurred at the hands of individuals within parts of various countries, such as Albania, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy,[2] Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, the Palestinian territories, Sweden, Turkey, Uganda, the United Kingdom and the United States. Honor killings are more common among poor rural communities. In Europe, honor killings have mostly been reported within some Muslim and Sikh communities. Individual Arab Christians living within parts of the Near East, such as sections of Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, are said to sometimes carry out the act as well.[11] Many cases of honor killings have been reported in Pakistan. In December 2005, Nazir Afzal, director of Britain's Crown Prosecution Service, stated that the United Kingdom has seen "at least a dozen honor killings" between 2004 and 2005.[3] Critics argue that the practice is over-whelmingly associated with certain Muslim cultures and the peoples influenced by those cultures.[12]

Source for below article

http://www.bbc.co.uk...

A global problem
Outside the UK, honour killings have been reported in countries throughout the world including: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Sweden, Turkey, and Uganda.

The practice is common in Pakistan where police believe that up to 4,000 people, mostly women, have died in brutal honour killings in the four years between 2000 and 2004. Hundreds of women are raped or killed there each year in so-called honour attacks for behaviour including extramarital affairs or marriage without a family's consent.

In a recent case (June 2005), Jali Ahmed set fire to his sleeping wife and daughter and burned them to death in an honour killing. The 20-year-old girl was killed for having had an affair and her mother for not doing enough to discourage her daughter.

In another harrowing case, a Pakistani widow and her two daughters were beaten and forced to parade naked through a market after her son allegedly had an affair with another man's wife.

And in June 2002, a 30-year-old woman claimed she was gang raped on the orders of a tribal council to atone for her brother's alleged affair with a member of a powerful rival clan. Mukhtar Mai's family said the charge against her 12-year-old brother, Shakoor, was fabricated.

The family claims Shakoor was sodomised by a group of men from the local Mastoi clan. After they threatened to report the incident to the police, Mai was gang raped allegedly by four men.

In Europe the phenomenon is also on the rise. European police met in The Hague in 2004 to discuss ways to tackle the problem and pledged to set up a pan-European unit to crack down on honour killings.

Police believe that some families may have hired contract killers or bounty hunters. Some killings have also involved sending the victim back to the family's "home nation" to be killed there.

They have also acknowledged that the culture surrounding honour crimes is complex and that recognising early warning signs will be the first step towards saving lives.

Don't you just love cultural practices cloaked in the veil of religion?

Well... now that this thread has been digged, and i'm bored too.... i'll share some facts
Did you guys know some pathans are descendants of alexander the great. Yes, some cultural practices have their roots in europe.

btw, honor killing has absolutely nothing to do with religion. It's the mischievous ones who try to spread such misleading information.

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Bored? Is it that obvious? :-)

  No, not in EVERY country, unless people from other countries live in those countries were those things are NOT done,usually.

It helps to USE the brain, as it is given to you not only for balance.

Alexa

True, but I thought we were talking about honour killing...or did I miss something?
 

It helps to USE the brain, as it is given to you not only for balance.

Alexa

We're talking honour killings, not regular old murder, and no they are not common in every country, they are very particular to certain ethnic groups/nationalities, that is part of the reason they get so much attention, people wonder what it is about those cultures/ethnicities that breeds such behaviour. Common murder and banditry is universal, honour killings are not.

burning people when they are alive I believe to be so wrong and agonising for the person involved,
however, in the UK people ask that when they die, instead of being buried, they want to be cremated (burned).
I myself have lost my Father, 1 Brother and a Sister, my Sister was buried but my Father and my Brother were both cremated, I found it a lot harder to watch my Sisters coffin being lowered into the ground and covered in earth, than to watch my Father's and my Brother's coffins slide discreetly behind a velvet curtain out of sight.
We return in a few days to scatter their ashes wherever they wanted them, my Father's are in a rose bed where the most beautiful yellow roses grow.

I would never condone the killing of anyone, by burning or any other means, the taking of a life is wrong. x

I HATE FaKE MUSLIMS, people who believe that they can hide behind god or islam so they go and rape or kill people.

tis shameful.

THAT is why ISLAM is now associated with terrorism.
At least when christian goes and waks some one he has the decency to do it coz hes a bastard.

Try getting to the U.s with name like Osman Abdul-Rahman Yissah. At the airport these guy set dogs on my brother, because of this moral relativity.

moral relativity killed more people than a nuke ever could.

Osman..... you said it buddy.

Use any excuse is the motto. Kill what you cannot control/understand? Absolutly sick, depraved,....AAAAAAGH

Sorry very sore point for me this topic. Rather leave it here.............................

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