his daughter because she carried a cell phone in Palestine. He was suspicious his daughter of using cell phone to call with a man, so he knock her to death. She was bruised all over her body, and her three brothers fallen under suspicion of participate.
Also, honor killing is committed in Saudi Arabia. Let's see an example. A young Arab woman was killed for chatting with a man by her father. O
Ⅰ. Introduction
1) Definition
Human Rights Watch defines "honor killings" as follows:
Honor killings are acts of vengeance, usually death, committed by male family members against female family members, who are held to have brought dishonor upon the family. A woman can be targeted by (individuals within) her family for a variety of reasons, including: refusing to enter into an arrange
honor. The number of man was very important because they had to cross desserts riding camels and sometimes they had to cross another tribe's territory. In Arab society, woman started to be thought as property rather than a human being like man.
2) other many cases
October 2002 in Acton, West London, UK.
Kurdish Abdullah Yones murdered his 16 years old daughter by repeated stabbing and
2. Religious view of honor killing
1) In Quran.
What Quran said about adultery?
If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, Take the evidence of four (Reliable) witnesses from amongst you against them; and if they testify, confine them to houses until death do claim them, or Allah ordain for them some (other) way. (004.015)
If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If
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