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Originally Posted by Richard
The report says that "honour" killings tend to be more prevalent in, but are not limited to, countries with a majority Muslim population. It adds, however, that Islamic leaders have condemned the practice and say it has no religious basis.[/I]
http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2000/english/ch03.html
Strong emotions, publicly and privately circulated misinformation, misogyny, and consistently faulty reasoning seem to be pervasive in all sides of these complex issues - and so it goes - sadly.  |
Islamic leaders have condemned the practice? Who? and to whom?
If MUSLIMS condemned it in Arabic to MUSLIMS, it might be more convincing.
The reality is, MUSLIMS condemn it to NON-MUSLIMS.
Why?
Because they are REQUIRED TO BY LAW. Lying is REQUIRED BY LAW when defending the faith.
So when they tell a NON-MUSLIM it has no religious basis, it's because they are required to lie to protect the faith.
Is this really that difficult?
The religious basis is ISLAMIC LAW. Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law:
Book O (the book of "justice") Section 8.0 Apostacy from Islam (ridda)
o8.1 Whoever voluntarily leaves islam is killed
o8.4 no indeminty or expiation for killing him (see how nicely this encourages vigilante justice?)
It's not that complicated. You are allowing yourself to be deceived and in the process you are promulgating their talking points.