Dua Khalil killed in honor killing?

Question

Authorities in northern Iraq have arrested four people in connection with the "honor killing" last month of a Kurdish teen a startling, morbid pummeling caught on a mobile phone video camera and broadcast around the world.

The case portrays the tragedy and brutality of honor killings in the Muslim world. Honor killings take place when family members kill relatives, almost always female, because they feel the relatives' actions have shamed the family.

In this case, Dua Khalil, a 17-year-old Kurdish girl whose religion is Yazidi, was dragged into a crowd in a headlock with police looking on and kicked, beaten and stoned to death last month. Authorities believe she was killed for being seen with a Sunni Muslim man. She had not married him or converted, but her attackers believed she had. Two of the four arrested are members of the victim's family.

"Hmmm i say the all 4 people who are arrested should be touched and stoned to death what do you people think? or better yet nuke that area"

Answer 1

These ppl are animals and their "god" is a butcher not a god. They do not value the lives of even their own children. Please tell me ONE reason why ppl are so blind to these facts? Why is it that they are being allowed to build their "temples" all over the world (in the very countries they claim to hate because they are "satans"!!!)
I believe the Islam should be OUTLAWED world wide!

Answer 2

Seen this and I think it's horrible but hey can Bush change a culture? Seeing were in this war not for the WMD or OBL I guess it's to free people such as this! This is nothing new or shocking for these mentally disturbed people and what we and the world needs to do is contain these humans and wait a couple more generations until they no none of this-impossible? Maybe I feel for any human and the families that take on honor killings need to be exterminated they are hopeless-simply hopeless

Answer 3

Although I'm inclined to think that the perpetrators deserve the same treatment as their victim, I also think it would be a mistake to carry out this archaic barbarism. The reason is that traditionally, it begets a long chain of revenge killings. I think that all participants ought to be arrested, tried, and punished according to their guilt. Punishments could be execution or prison. I know that this will be difficult to do with the government system in Iraq still not fully formed and implemented. But this should be the goal.

Answer 4

All over the world people have believed through out history in honor killings. But what are these honor crimes. These crimes are acts of violence, usually murder, committed by male family members against female family members who are perceived to have brought dishonor upon the family. A family may feel the need to commit such a crime by refusing to enter into an arranged marriage, being the victim of a sexual assault, seeking a divorce even from an abusive husband or committing adultery. Even the thought of a woman bringing dishonor to a family may cause an attack. In the case of rape if the victim were to marry her attacker the family honor is restored and he can not be prosecuted by law, though the rapist may still face criminal charges if he divorces his wife within five years without a legitimate reason. If marriage is not possible because of family relationship, such as a bother, the family will try to marry off the daughter to restore honor.

Honor killings, as described by Wikipedia online encyclopedia, is generally considered a premeditated crime yet crimes of passion. Crimes of passion often have special status under the law. The West is not immune to this type of violence against women. Until 1975, the French Penal Code commuted the sentence of a husband who killed his wife after finding her in the act of committing adultery; this law passed into the legal frameworks of the many nations who based their modern legal codes on the Napoleonic Code. Yet these crimes of passion are small in number and are different from premeditated crimes against an adulterous spouse.

As of 2004, honor killings have occurred not only in the East but also many European countries, including: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Sweden, Turkey, Uganda and the United Kingdom. The United Nations Population Fund believes that annually there are worldwide 5,000 women killed through honor killings. These killings are often made to look like suicide, fire or an accident.
In a traditional view of Islamic law says there should be a severe punishments for zina' or extramarital sex, by both men and women. Premarital can be punished by 100 lashes and adultery by lethal stoning. To implement such a punishment the act must be seen by at least four male witnesses of good character. The punishment is to be reserved to the legal authorities, and false accusations are themselves punished severely. In conservative areas many men consider it a slur on the family's honor if women in the family are found to have relationships with other men outside of marriage, or when they marry without their families' consent. This is not always the case as with the honor killing of the Saudi Arabian princess Misha'al. The execution of the princess did not follow any Islamic religious court proceeding but was ordered directly by her grandfather.

An honor killing in the Islamic definition refers to specifically to extra-legal punishment by the family against the woman, and as such is forbidden by the sharia. The “Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran has condemned the practice as ‘un-Islamic’, though punishment under Iranian law remains lenient. In Pakistan, when a bill proposing to strengthen the law against ‘Honor Killing’ was defeated in Parliament, March 2, 2005, the government allied with the Islamist opposition to decide explicitly that the bill was ‘un-Islamic’. In Jordan there is a movement to stop honor killings. Although King Abdullah II has tried to bring new light onto this subject. He has gone to the parliament for change but not received warmly. But after hearing this the people went to the streets in protest. Trying to bring his country into a modernist point of view.

Yet there are still areas of modern thought, showing this a cultural practice not Islamic. In Indonesia and parts of West Africa honor killings are unknown, as also in with majority-Muslim populations. These areas are not culturally Arab yet Indonesia is the largest Islamic country. These areas give hope for other Islamic nations to also not allow these actions against women.

Yet with all the laws in Europe and the United States there are still honor killings. To many times each year there are crimes of passion when in truth they are honor killings. Jan. 8, 1999 Methal Dayem's body was found, in Cleveland, she had been shot four times. Musa Saleh and Yezen Dayem, her brother, were acquitted of the crime due to lack of evidence. Before her death she had broken off an engagement to Musa Saleh, her cousin. The according to her sister and the prosecuting attorney she was murdered.

With all that have been done in the world to protect the women in the world there is still more to be done. Honor crimes are not based in Islam but in culture. By bringing this fact into the public spectrum it is more likely to stop such a practice. Around the world women are still victims of crimes by family members seeing the family honor in her true and perceived actions. A woman’s blood does not need to flow just to bring honor back to a man.

Source(s):

Attwood, Karen. "12 Honour Killings a Year in UK' Police Believe." The Press Association Limited 4 Nov. 2005. LexisNexis. 30 Nov. 2005.

Feldner, Yotam. ""Honor" Murders – Why the Perps Get off Easy." The Middle East Quarterly VII (2000). 1 Dec. 2005.
Plata, David. “Dayem murder trial ends with acquittal” Sun News. July 27, 2000. http://www.sunnews.com/news/2000/0727/wd... November 27, 2005
Tanveer, Khalid. "Two women, one man killed for honor in eastern Pakistan: police." Associated Press 24 Sept. 2005. LexisNexis. 1 Dec. 2005.
Wadud, Amina. Qur'an and Woman. New York: Oxford UP, 1999.

Webb, Gisela, ed. Windows of Faith. New York: Syracuse UP, 2000.

Answer 5

Nuke