No doubt, the monster of terrorism is engulfing the world day by day but along with this, there is a creeping predicament that too is swallowing up human race but there’s a difference in this case. Here the victims are women, from ‘crimes of passion’ to ‘dowry deaths’, not to mention domestic violence, many types of aggression against women occur at the hands of family members. The so-called ‘honor killing’ of women and girls in some Muslim nations is one horrifying manifestation of this global phenomenon.
Is there any kind of punishment which could be bestowed upon the people who bring about honor killings? The answer is in negation at least in Islam.
However, a case has surfaced where such perpetrators have been sacked behind bars. Last year, Banaz Mahmod, a 20-year-old girl was throttled to death after brutally assaulted by her own father and uncle in Britain, where cases like these are not new.
At a pre-sentence hearing it emerged that Banaz, 20, had been raped and tortured before being killed.
Both of the accusers have been sentenced to life imprisonment in London after being found guilty of ordering the killing. The poor girl met such a fate after her elders discovered her love for a man who was not from their village.
Banaz Mahmod was married off when she was 17 however she has fallen in love with an Iranian Kurd, Rahmat Suleimani, 28. And both of them were secretly seeing each other. Consequent upon which, the girl met with such a terrible fate.
The killing surfaced when Hama, one of the doers, found boasting the act in front of his pal in the prison. Recounting vivid images of strangulation he said,
The wire was thick and the soul would not just leave like that. We could not remove it. All in all it took five minutes (to strangle) her. I was kicking and stamping on her neck to get the soul out. I saw her stark naked, without wearing pants or underwear.
He described how her body parts were sticking out of the suitcase,
You know what it was, sticking out, her elbow, her hair was falling out so much. That was a stupid thing, a silly thing.
After stuffing the body into the suitcase, they buried it in a garden in Birmingham, where it was found three months later.
Think about it!
Is it feasible to make place for such a religion into the terrain of societies that nourish such horrendous affairs?
Words cannot describe the anger and hate I feel to those communities that condone such terrifying acts.
Via: The Age
