Pakistan: five women buried alive for honor
Sharia Alert -- we are constantly
told in the West that honor killing has nothing to do with Islam, but Muslims
somehow seem to keep misunderstanding that.
I've said this before, and I will
keep saying it:
A manual of Islamic law certified by
Al-Azhar as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy says that "retaliation is
obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and
without right." However, "not subject to retaliation" is "a
father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or
offspring's offspring." ('Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2).
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| Woman In Islam Burying Alive |
In other words, someone who kills
his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law.
Why does this stipulation appear in
a manual of Islamic law if this has nothing to do with Islam?
"Five women buried alive in
name of honour," from the PakTribune,
August 25 (thanks to all who sent this in):
ISLAMABAD: Three teenage girls along
with their two close elderly relatives were shot at before being buried alive
in a desert of Balochistan by their tribesmen in the name of honour.
The shocking reports of this
horrible incident reaching the capital from different quarters revealed that
the girls studying in classes 10 to 12 intended to marry men of their choice
through a civil court by defying the centuries-old tribal traditions. When the
fuming elders of Umrani tribe came to know about the intentions of these girls
to appear before a local court, they picked them up from their homes along with
two of their elderly women relatives. The crying girls were pushed into
official cars and driven to a deserted area. There they were pushed out of the
cars, made to stand in a queue and volleys of shots fired at them.
As the bleeding girls fell on the
sand, the tribesmen dragged them into a nearby ditch and levelled it with earth
and stones before the girls could breathe their last. As the two shocked
elderly women tried to rescue the hapless girls, they too were gunned down and
buried in the same manner.
The killers after burying these
women returned to their tribe like conquerors without any action against them.
The step taken was to send a loud message to the rest of the tribe’s girls. Father
of these girls lodged an FIR with the police against his own brother, who was
said to be the architect of this crime. But after some family pressure, he
withdrew the case and so the blood of those girls was forgiven in the name of
centuries-old tradition, which does not allow any girl of the tribe to contract
marriage of her choice.
Meanwhile, the Human Rights Watch
has accused Abdul Sattar Umrani, the younger brother of PPP Housing Minister in
Balochistan Government Mir Sadiq Umrani, of being directly responsible for this
shocking act of barbarianism....
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