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Honor killings and jihad
There is an epidemic of “honor” killings of young women going on in the Palestinian territories, and Sharon Lapkin details many of these horrendous crimes. The routinized depravity, proceeding from Arab tribal customs and reinforced and heightened by Islamic laws and attitudes, is beyond belief. Lapkin’s view is that the Israeli security fence deprived the Palestinians of opportunities to mass murder Israelis, and so they have turned their fury upon their own. Her only support for this theory is a post hoc ergo propter hoc argument that honor killings have markedly increased over the last couple of years as suicide attacks have declined. She suggests a parallel between the two types of murder, but doesn’t develop her idea satisfactorily. However, I do think there is a parallel. From the start, war against the non-believers has had a lot to with the need to restore lost honor. Over and over the Koran conveys the sense that the infidels are not just mistaken, but are perversely and wickedly rejecting the truth. In other words, simply by existing as non-Muslims, they have “dissed” Allah and his Prophet, and that is why Allah breathes forth such vindictive sadistic punishments against them. It is only through the punishment of the infidel that the honor of Allah, Muhammad, and Islam can be restored. A similar psychology seems to be at work with the Muslims’ obsession with female sexual purity. No matter what happens of an improper sexual nature, even if the girl did not initiate the activity, indeed, even if she was raped, and even if the rapist was her own brother or father, she is seen as the one who has brought dishonor on her family, and the only way to restore family honor is to destroy the source of the dishonor. So the girl, who in many cases is already the victim of a horrible sexual crime, must be killed. The rage against the infidel, and the rage against a “dishonored” female, are the same.
Howard Sutherland points out that the head of Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service, referred to in Lapkin’s article, is Nazil Asfal, which sounds like a Muslim name. Email entry |