What
Honor is there in Killing?
The
growing rise in “honor killings” is unreal & heartbreaking. Honor killings
not only occur in parts of the Middle East but also in Europe & the U.S. From frontpagemag.com
a Palestinian 27 year old woman who was a mother of three was viciously
murdered by her husband. Nancy Zaboun, the victim, allegedly was looking for an
early exit of her marriage due to the 10 years of the repeating beatings she
was suffering. Unfortunately for Zaboun her attempt was fatal and unsuccessful.
Also since Zaboun’s attempt to flee caused such a stain to her husband’s family
honor he repeatedly stabbed her several times. Zaboun is not the only woman to
fall under the category of
honor killings. A report from the Palestinian Independent
Commission for Human Rights stated that 25 women have been subjected to honor killings, with 13 women
murdered in 2011 and 12 women slain in 2012. These statistics
are not only tragic but deeply distressing. More victims includes 17 year old
Rofayda Qaoud whose mother placed a plastic bag over her head and slashed her
wrists after she was raped and impregnated by her brothers; 27-year-old Fadia
Najjar, a divorced mother of five, beaten to death by her
father because she owned a cell phone that
he thought she was using to call a man outside of the
family; and 20-year-old Aya Baradiya, tied up and thrown down a
well to die by her uncle because he disapproved of her engagement. To
believe that the Islamic culture believes this is right, is plain wrong. The
Qur’ran does not state anything that
proves that honor killings is a religious
right, it is simply cultural. A
study done by the Gaza-based Palestinian Women’s Information and Media Center
