Here we go again. I have posted this information many times before and will keep on posting it every time there is another honor killing, if only to leave a record, for as long as this site remains up, of the cravenness of the mainstream media in never reporting on the Islamic justification for honor killings accurately, and thereby enabling the practice to continue.
This is an Islamic phenomenon, and can only be stopped if it is confronted as such. Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, 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). In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law.
The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but “the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour ‘provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.’” And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that “Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.”
“Jordanian gets reduced sentence for ‘honor killing,’” from AFP, February 6 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
AMMAN – A Jordanian court has reduced the sentence of a man who killed his daughter because she left home without her husband’s knowledge from death to 10 years in jail, an official said Thursday.
“On January 29, the court initially condemned the man to death but gave him a reduced jail sentence after the family dropped all legal claims against him,” the judicial official told AFP.
“He has confessed to shooting and killing his daughter, who was in her late 20'
s, because she left her house for several days without her husband’s knowledge.”
He said the crime took place on November 13, 2012 in Ruseifeh, east of the capital Amman.
“The convict, who is in his 50's, has also confessed that he killed the woman to cleanse the family’s honor,” the official added.
Murder is punishable by death in Jordan, but in so-called “honor killings” courts usually commute or reduce sentences if the victim’s family requests leniency.
Between 15 and 20 women are murdered in honor killings in Jordan each year, despite government efforts to curb such crimes.
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Monday, February 10, 2014
Friday, February 7, 2014
Utah: Marriage Equality Reduces Birth Rates
In their opening brief in support of Utah’s appeal of a ruling that the state’s ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional, the Beehive State’s lawyers argued Monday that one reason to avoid marriage equality was the “correlation between genderless marriage and lower birthrates.” But not only does the state fail to show any causation between legal marriage equality and lack of reproduction, but it also fails to show any actual correlation.
Utah’s lawyers argue in the filing that the need to for “adequate procreation is “one reason why, since time immemorial, and even in societies that embraced homosexual liaisons, marriage has always been conceived as a union of a man and a woman for the purpose of having children.” In an attempt to substantiate that claim, the brief notes:
It is also striking that fertility and birthrates tend to be markedly lower in nations and states that have embraced same-sex marriage. For example, the birthrate in states (and Washington, D.C.) that have adopted a genderless marriage definition is significantly lower than the national average. In fact, the six lowest birthrate states have all adopted that redefinition, while none of the nine highest birthrate states have done so.
In a footnote, the attorneys reference the Centers for Disease Control’s National Vital Statistics Reports – Births: Final Data for 2012, which identified the six states with the lowest birthrates in that year were Connecticut (10.2 live births per 1,000 estimated population), Maine (9.6), Massachusetts (10.9), New Hampshire (9.4), Rhode Island (10.4), and Vermont (9.6). The states with highest birthrates in that report Texas (14.7) and Utah (18.0). While other factors including religious beliefs, prenatal care access, contraceptive use, abortion rate, or even climate could all be factors, same-sex couples are biologically no more likely to become pregnant based on the legal recognition of their relationships.
But a ThinkProgress examination of the 2000 edition of the same report reveals just how silly this claim is. Not one state had legal marriage equality at the time (Vermont adopted civil unions that year), and yet the numbers were largely similar. Birthrates in the six New England states were all under 14 per 1,000 people, while Texas (17.8) and Utah (21.9) had the highest rates. While the national birthrate has declined from 14.7 in 2000 to 12.6 in 2012, the decline in Texas (-3.1) and Utah (-3.9) in that time was higher than in any of those six marriage-equality states at the bottom.
In other words, Utah’s birthrate actually dropped more as it rejected same-sex marriage than in key states that embraced it.
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Utah’s lawyers argue in the filing that the need to for “adequate procreation is “one reason why, since time immemorial, and even in societies that embraced homosexual liaisons, marriage has always been conceived as a union of a man and a woman for the purpose of having children.” In an attempt to substantiate that claim, the brief notes:
It is also striking that fertility and birthrates tend to be markedly lower in nations and states that have embraced same-sex marriage. For example, the birthrate in states (and Washington, D.C.) that have adopted a genderless marriage definition is significantly lower than the national average. In fact, the six lowest birthrate states have all adopted that redefinition, while none of the nine highest birthrate states have done so.
In a footnote, the attorneys reference the Centers for Disease Control’s National Vital Statistics Reports – Births: Final Data for 2012, which identified the six states with the lowest birthrates in that year were Connecticut (10.2 live births per 1,000 estimated population), Maine (9.6), Massachusetts (10.9), New Hampshire (9.4), Rhode Island (10.4), and Vermont (9.6). The states with highest birthrates in that report Texas (14.7) and Utah (18.0). While other factors including religious beliefs, prenatal care access, contraceptive use, abortion rate, or even climate could all be factors, same-sex couples are biologically no more likely to become pregnant based on the legal recognition of their relationships.
But a ThinkProgress examination of the 2000 edition of the same report reveals just how silly this claim is. Not one state had legal marriage equality at the time (Vermont adopted civil unions that year), and yet the numbers were largely similar. Birthrates in the six New England states were all under 14 per 1,000 people, while Texas (17.8) and Utah (21.9) had the highest rates. While the national birthrate has declined from 14.7 in 2000 to 12.6 in 2012, the decline in Texas (-3.1) and Utah (-3.9) in that time was higher than in any of those six marriage-equality states at the bottom.
In other words, Utah’s birthrate actually dropped more as it rejected same-sex marriage than in key states that embraced it.
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