2010-09-09 Independent: "Honor" killing files

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Independent aloitti toissapaivana neliosaisen artikkelin hapeamurhista. Kolmannessa, eli tamanpaivaisessa osassa kasitellaan mm. Egyptissa tapahtuvaa nuorten naisten teurastusta.
Ei tama "rakenteellinen rasisimi", josta kuulee hipeilta Suomessa ole mitaan verrattuna Egyptin rakenteellisen misogyniaan, jota suojelevat poliisit ja tuomarit.

Korostukset allekirjoittaneen.

Egyptian judges are notorious for bending the law – or disregarding it entirely – when faced with family murders. "There was a man sentenced to six months – just six months – for killing his sister," Amal Abdelhadi says. "But the judge decided that since the man will have to live his whole life with the guilt of his killing his innocent sister, he should not go to prison!"

Then there are the Egyptian courts. "In Lebanon and Jordan, they have articles in law that specifically refer to 'honour' killings. But in Egypt, the judge believes he has a special authority and Article 17 of the law allows judges to use clemency if they wish to reduce sentences – from 25 years, for example, to six months. The religious and traditional background of the judges affects them. They can say that the victim 'acted against tradition'. The murderers – the father or the brother – can therefore be considered as someone who 'acted naturally'. This provides leniency for the perpetrators. Yet our statistics suggest that 79 per cent of the girls who have been victims of 'honour' crimes here were killed out of pure suspicion – because they came home late, or because neighbours said they had seen a girl laughing loudly in the street."

Ms Suleiman is no friend of the police. "Sometimes we have three or four cases of incest and we meet with the police. We get the police to talk to the man – sometimes a woman is raped by her brother-in-law. But if a woman runs away, the police often bring the woman back to her family rather than protect her. "When I studied law at Cairo University, I was arrested by the police because I was a friend of activists in the Nasserist network at the university. When I interviewed Islamist women who had been detained, I found they had been tortured. I said this in an interview on the BBC. So the police arrested me again. They said I was 'tarnishing the reputation of Egypt'. The police here are always angry – especially when they have to deal with people who understand the law."

According to Azza Suleiman, foreign NGOs are refused projects if they make politically unacceptable remarks. She says the police have interfered with her social projects, even those intended to improve relations between Christian and Muslim women. "The police rang me and said: 'We will teach you a lesson.' So I said in a newspaper interview: 'The police are like wild dogs.' That's when they stopped our projects. The police asked me to apologise, so I did. I said: "What I said was a mistake – dogs are much nicer than the police."

[Vouti]

Jos lähdetään siltä pohjalta, että Egyptissä seurataan Abu Abdullah Muhammed ibn Idris al-Shafi'i:n koulukuntaa ja laki sanoo näin :

o1.0 WHO IS SUBJECT TO RETALIATION FOR INJUROUS CRIMES

(O: Injurious crimes includes not only those committed with injurious weapons, but those inflicted otherwise as well, such as with sorcery (def: x136). Killing without right is, after unbelief, one of the worst enormities, as Shafi'i explicitly states in (n: Muzani's) The Epitome. The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said :

"The blood of a Muslim man who testifies that there is no god but Allah and that I am the Messanger of Allah is not lawful to shed unless he be one of the three: a married adulterer, someone killed in retaliation for killing another, or someone who abandons his religion and the Muslim community."

and in another hadith,

"The killing of a believer is more heinous in Allah's sight that doing away with all of this world."

Allah Most High says :

"... and not to slay the soul that Allah has forbidden, except with right" (Koran 6:151),

and,

"O you who believe, rataliation is prescribed for you regarding the slain..." (Koran 2:178).)

o1.1 Retaliation is obligatory (A: if the person entitled wishes to take it (dis: o3.8 )) against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right. (O: Intentionally is a first restriction and excludes killing someone through an honest mistake, while purely excludes a mistake made in a deliberate injury (def:o2.3), and without right excludes cases of justifiable homicide as lawful retaliation.)


o1.2 The following are not subject to retaliation :

(1) a child or insane person, under any circumstances (O: whether Muslim or non-Muslim...
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(2) a Muslim for killing a non-Muslim;
(3) A jewish or Christian subject of the Islamic State for killing an apostate (O: because a subject of the state is under its protection, while killing an apostate from Islam is without consequences);
(4) a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring;
(5) nor is retaliation permissible to a descendant for (A: his ancestor's) killing someone whose death would otherwise entitle the descendant to retaliate, such as when his father kills his mother.


Boldaus omani

En pidä siis kovinkaan ihmeellisenä, jos tyttärien murhaamisesta päästetään kuin koiraveräjästä (ts. hadd-rangaistusta ei sovelleta). Itse olen yrittänyt miettiä pääni puhki, mistä tapahtumasta laki on saanut alkunsa. Ainoa hadithi jonka tiedän tukevan tapaa, on Tirmidhistä, jota ainakin osa oppineista pitää heikkona tai väärennettynä.

Olen kuullut myös väitteen, että Al-Azhar tukee nykyään rangaistusta vapautuksen sijasta (onko kyse sitten islamin imagon ylläpitämisestä, en tiedä). Vai tarkoittaako Al-Azhar sillä verirahaa (jonka vaatimisesta perhe voi luopua) tai syntien sovitusta (paasto, orjan vapauttaminen jne...). Väitteen todenperäisyyttä en tosin pystynyt tarkistamaan mistään.

Oikeuskäytäntöön rangaistuksen tukeminen ei kuitenkaan näytä heijastuvan.

          - Vouti


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