Finally! Honour killing is a CRIME in Jordan!

[dancing-loon]

Jordan 'tough' on honour killer

A court in Jordan has sentenced a 23-year-old man to 10 years in jail for killing his sister.
The man was initially sentenced to death, but this was commuted to give him the chance to repent.
The court heard that he stabbed his sister 14 times and shot her repeatedly after her former husband accused her of having affairs.
Jordanians convicted of so called "honour killings" have previously been jailed for as little as six months.

Correspondents say the 10-year sentence underlines the authorities' determination to stamp out the crime.

Amnesty International says that last year 17 women were officially recorded as having been killed in "honour crimes" in Jordan.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7399084.stm
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I'm glad they didn't kill the brother... that would have been another crime. He grew up with this backward ideology... his society taught him to act what he thought was the right thing to do.

The UN estimates that the annual worldwide total of honor-killing victims may be as high as 5,000 women.

Imagine that!! And their killers are men they know and likely love!

There are a few more countries guilty of these crimes. Their "traditions" are imported to Canada as well!
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/001085.php
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It is so hard for me to understand! :-(

 

[karrie]

I'm not a supporter of the death penalty, but, I'm glad they're putting it on the table to drive home their seriousness about this. To go from death to 10 years though, that seems more than a little odd, no? That's quite a huge step down in sentencing.

 

[gopher]

Justice must be done to stop this abhorrent practice. Now, if only India would do the same for those parents who practice female infanticide and who have killed 10 million girls in the past 20 years -- that would be progress.

 

[dancing-loon]

Justice must be done to stop this abhorrent practice. Now, if only India would do the same for those parents who practice female infanticide and who have killed 10 million girls in the past 20 years -- that would be progress.

Hi,Gopher;
I have heard about that practice... it's out of dire helplessness to stop the idiotic practice of dowry-giving.
I'm posting the link, although it is gruesome to read.
http://ginacobb.typepad.com/gina_cobb/2007/07/message-to-indi.html

 

[Scott Free]

I think this would be great news if I lived in Jordan but since I don't, in reality, I could care less.

Perhaps I should pretend? Maybe it should alleviate some self-righteous indignation in me? Maybe I should care about people I will never know; people which, if they stopped existing tomorrow, I wouldn't even notice?

Maybe I should pretend to care so I seem like a better person? Maybe faining care would make me feel like a better person?

Perhaps I should think justice is a real object and somehow this serves its higher function?

Or maybe I should just admit I couldn't care less?

Maybe I should buy into the narrative that somehow, in some insanely bizarre way, this has any relevance to me in the least?

No, I admit it, I don't care.

 

[karrie]

Peeing in the pool. Sure... it may happen way across the pool, but, it will effect you eventually.

Here in Canada it crops up, this notion of 'honour killing', because so many were raised to think it's right, and their countries still support it. It happens in Canadian neighborhoods. It happens to women who may have touched your life. For Jordan to finally take a stance will hopefully encourage other countries to as well, which will hopefully lower the number of women slaughtered here for these same reasons. That effects me. *shrugs*

 

[dancing-loon]

Thanks, Karrie, you brought the point across very well. Scott, for one, is a man, I think??? He simply cannot feel like women feel.

Scott, it is good you are honest. I bet you have much company here and everywhere.

I posted this topic, because I felt it can't hurt to raise awareness, as little and insignificant it may be. Perhaps I'm touched by this story, because I have read a book about honor killings and know how utterly stupid and senseless it is. It's a dominant male's issue.

Through immigration this "custom" has been imported to Canada as well, as reported in my above link...

March 7, 2004 Honor killing in Toronto

Muhammad Khan during a police interview

The male is most everywhere the dominant force in a marriage, within the family, even if he is a coward outside! Love and respect is often overruled by jealousy and claim of ownership. And that kind of rule gets passed on from father to son. It is up to women to protest, rebel and push for change.