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16.5 Islam and Honor Killings
My personal opinion is that discrimination against individual Muslims is wrong. Everyone is an individual. Not all Muslims are holy warriors, who take every opportunity to subjugate or kill the infidel. Some Muslims are very nice people who contribute to society. Some of the top physicians in the United States are Muslim. Islam is not the only religion that has violent commands in it. We shouldn't be against Jews or Christians because of violent statements in the bible and likewise we should not be against all Muslims because of violent statements in their religion.
Some Muslims are victims of their own religion. It's no one's fault if they are born into a radical Islamic family. It doesn't make them a bad person. They may be trapped in a religion that they don't want to be part of but are afraid to leave. Aqsa Parvez was a sixteen year old Muslim girl who lived in Canada and who didn't want to wear the Hijab. Vivacious and outgoing, Parvez wanted to dress like a Western woman in tight-fitting clothes and show off her long, dark hair by removing her hijab. Her strict Islamic family felt dishonored by her un-Islamic behavior and killed her. The Toronto Star reported:
Parvez, who loved to dance and snap pictures of herself, will be sorely missed, her friends said. "She wanted to show her beauty but her dad wouldn't let her," Rance said, before breaking down. "I can't believe it. I'm so sad."
Aqsa Parvez was a Muslim and a nice girl. It would be very wrong to judge her in a negative way because she was a Muslim just as it was wrong of her parents to judge her in a negative way for not being Muslim enough. What was done to Aqsa Parvez is known as an honor killing. Every year 400-500 women are killed brutally by Muslim relatives in Iran to protect their families “honor.” Romina Ashrafi was a 13 year old girl who ran away to marry a man her parents didn't want her to marry. The police handed her over to her parents and that night her father killed her. After that the majority of members of Iran's parliament voted for a stronger punishment for killing of children. The bill, however, was rejected by the Guardian Council of Iran, which claimed that the law was against sharia. Pakistan, like Iran is an Islamic country and it too has hundreds of honor killings a year.
Should we hide the truth about Islam so as to protect Muslims from discrimination? Pretending honor killing don't exist just makes it easier for people to commit them. Another problem with hiding the truth is that we than don't protect ourselves against those Muslims who are a threat to us. Pamela Geller a writer who frequently warns about the threat of Islam created a memorial for Aqsa Parvez. Ms. Geller cares about Muslims but at the same time has dedicated her life to warning about the threat that Islam poses both to Muslims and to others.
Another problem about hiding the truth to prevent discrimination is that many Muslims discriminate because Islam commands discrimination against the non-believer. Leftists who are for mass immigration of Muslims say they are for LGBTQIA+ rights but Muslims are not. Shaykh Hamza Sodagar is a Muslim allowed to immigrate to Britain. He said: “If there’s homosexual men, the punishment is one of five things. One – the easiest one maybe – chop their head off, that’s the easiest. Second – burn them to death. Third – throw ’em off a cliff. Fourth – tear down a wall on them so they die under that. Fifth – a combination of the above.”
It's important not to judge all Muslims by the violent statements of some of them or by the violent statements in their holy books. Every person is an individual and we must not forget that there are many good Muslims. We must remember what Tommy Robinson has pointed out being against the violent teachings of Islam is not equivalent to being against Muslims. You can be for Muslims and against the violent teachings of Islam.
Muslims aren't committing genocide today right?
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