16 Honor Killings in Two Months!!

That's in Afghanistan alone.  How appalling is that?  Let's get our brave men and women out of there as soon as possible.  How do we defeat such a mentality?  We can't.  These people want Sharia; they have no interest in freedom as we know it.

I support air campaigns against these monsters, but the lives of our soldiers are too precious.  Bring our boys home NOW!!

I don't know about you, but I'm getting sick of reading about all these honor killings, and I'm not too fond of the silence coming from those so-called feminists who are nothing more than propagators of liberal causes who won't dare confront a religion which hates and mistreats women to the point of killing them.

Read from Atlas Shrugs:

WOMAN AND TWO CHILDREN BEHEADED IN AFGHAN "HONOR" KILLING

The horror of the sharia. Obama says, "respect it!"

Woman and Two Children Beheaded in Afghan "Honor" Killing Answering Muslims, July 4, 2012

Muslim organizations such as CAIR and ISNA are working tirelessly to convince us that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance. Meanwhile, violent crimes against women and non-Muslims are running rampant in the Muslim world, and Muslims in the West don't seem very concerned about the trend. Indeed, Muslim organizations are dedicated to silencing and condemning any criticism of "honor killings," human rights violations, women's rights violations, etc. I'm starting to wonder if they really believe what they're telling us.

(Reuters) - A 30-year-old woman and two of her children were beheaded overnight in Afghanistan's east, police said, in what appeared to be the latest in a rapidly growing trend of so-called honour killings.

Police said they suspected the woman Serata's divorced husband of barging into her house in the capital of Ghazni province and murdering her, alongside their eight-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter.

"The children saw the killer take their mother's head off, so he killed them too," a local policeman told Reuters, adding that the attacker had spared Sereta's two-year-old daughter.

Activists say there has been a sharp rise in violent attacks on women in Afghanistan over the past year.

They blame President Hamid Karzai's waning attention to women's rights as his government prepares for the exit of most foreign troops in 2014 and seeks to negotiate with the Taliban, Afghanistan's former Islamist rulers.

Excluding Serata's beheading, there have been 16 cases of "honour killings" recorded across the country over March and April, the first two months of the Afghan new year, according to Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC).

This compares to the 20 cases recorded for all of last year, said commissioner Suraya Subhrang, blaming increased insecurity and weak rule of law for the sharp rise. Since AIHRC started recording such killings in 2001, there have never been more than 20 cases a year.

"And there are many that go unreported. Men make a quick decision in their own courts to kill a girl and hold a prayer for her the next day," Subhrang told Reuters.

Serata divorced her husband Mohammad Arif, 38, a year ago after enduring almost a decade of domestic abuse, said Shukria Wali, head of Ghazni's department of women's affairs, which is attached to the ministry in Kabul.

Police said they were still hunting for Arif. Violent crimes against women often go unpunished in Afghanistan, with activists blaming police carelessness, corruption and a growing atmosphere of impunity. (Continue reading.)

Update: Robert Spencer reminds us:

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 reportedthat "Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values."

In light of all this, until authorities get the courage to tell the truth about honor killing and deal with its root causes, there will be many more such murders.