polite_gandalf wrote on Oct 31
st, 2013 at 2:51pm:
Soren wrote on Oct 31
st, 2013 at 1:33pm:
How was this guy's honour violated by any of the victims?
Please explain.
Thats actually my point S. Every case of muslims killing members of their family is automatically labelled an honour killing - regardless of what actually happened. We don't take the same attitude towards non-muslim familial killings - particularly in cases involving westerners. In the west they are aberrations, in the islamic world its cultural. We (as in people like Yadda) make these assumptions without even knowing how prevalent the phenomenon is in the islamic world compared to the non-islamic world. How does that work?
How can we say something is cultural or systematic when for all we know its just as much an aberration as it is in the western world.
One way we can do that is lump all the sickos in the muslim world together and call it "cultural" or "islamic", but dismiss the equivalents in the west as mere aberrations - despite the fact that they are equally on the fringe in both places. Thats my point about this story - its just another western aberration, whereas if we heard a report of the same thing, in the same circumstances in the muslim world, we would be drawing all the usual conclusions about "culture" and "islam".
Murdering family members is certainly 'aberrant' behaviour, ganalf.
What heart could/would sanction it ?
FURTHER;
gandalf asks,
"How can we say [familial murder may be predominantly] cultural or systematic [in an ISLAMIC setting]."
???
gandalf,
How ???
Because in an ISLAMIC 'environment'/jurisdiction, the 'abhorrent' behaviour [of familial murder], has an extra motivation/inducement - which is not present within all Western
jurisdictions.
And that 'inducement' is, that familial murder is 'lawfully' excused, if
the murder is committed against an enemy of Allah.
as per.....
The Hadith,
"...If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him."
hadithsunnah/bukhari/ #004.052.260
AND;
"....Lo! Allah is an enemy to those who reject Faith."
Koran 2.98
"....those who reject Allah
have no protector."
[<---- i.e. 'outlaws', are NOT protected, by the 'common' law]Koran 47.008
v. 8-11
+++
gandalf,
I hope for the day, for you to
openly acknowledge, that ISLAM is, and promotes,
wickedness in hearts of men.
I am not holding my breath!