Faleh Hassan Almaleki
Noor Almaleki
A new article in USA Today raises a big flag by surfacing a growing phenomenon of honor killings among Muslim male immigrants in this country. This comes amid news in November of an Iraqi immigrant in Arizona who killed his daughter for having become “too westernized.”
Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, is accused of running over his daughter, 20-year-old Noor Almaleki, with his car because she brought dishonor upon the family by reportedly marrying a man in Iraq and then returning to Arizona to live with her boyfriend and his mother.
Honor killings are generally defined as murders of women by relatives who claim the victim brought shame to the family. This certainly is not limited to “Islamic” countries, as this even occurs in countries like Brazil, Ecuador, Israel, Italy and Sweden. Yet, the occurrences of honor killings in the US have been largely committed by immigrants who are Muslims.
Where do these families get such an outrageous idea to murder their own flesh-and-blood for bringing shame and dishonor to the family? Is it steeped in their native culture? Is it advocated by their faith?
Unfortunately many people are blaming the religion of Islam for the existence of such a barbaric custom. “There is broad support and acceptance of this idea in Islam, and we're going to see it more and more in the United States," says Robert Spencer, founder of Jihad Watch and prominent antagonist of Islam.
This unfair and false statement not only exhibits Mr. Spencer’s bias against Islam but also exposes his lack of knowledge about this faith.
There is absolutely nothing in Islamic literature or jurisprudence that advocates, sanctions or even allows honor killings. Islam protects the sanctity of human life and abhors any attempt to take the life of an innocent person. The Holy Quran teaches that whoever intentionally kills another will be punished by God because the killing of one person is equated to killing all mankind.
What becomes increasingly frustrating for practicing Muslims like myself, then, is hearing about Muslim men who kill wives, sisters and/or mothers who have brought shame and dishonor to the family. This epidemic cannot be ignored and must be tackled.
Amnesty International once reported a case in which a husband murdered his wife based on a dream that she had betrayed him. Elsewhere, a young woman's throat was slit in the town square because a love song had been dedicated to her over the radio. In another case, a 16-year-old mentally retarded girl was raped and then turned over to her tribe's judicial council. Even though the crime was reported to the police and the man was arrested, the tribesmen council declared she had brought shame to her tribe, and she was killed in front of a tribal gathering.
This is disgusting.
Muslims across the world must unite to end such atrocities that have absolutely no basis in Islam. We must work to eradicate this ancient cultural custom from any society still plagued with it. It is a Muslim’s duty to uphold peace and tolerance, and any cries from hate mongers, like Robert Spencer, claiming that Islam supports and accepts this practice are ignorant at best and dishonest at worst.
People like Faleh Hassan Almaleki deserve a stiff punishment for murder. Their acts of savagery are almost always coupled with defiant pride and no remorse at all. Such acts demonstrate a complete lack of faith in God. If these men had any faith in God, they would not take matters into their own hands. The Holy Quran makes this clear and says “Verily, the most honorable among you, in the sight of Allah, is he who is the most righteous among you” (49:14).
These ignorant people are not serving their faith. They tarnish the image of Islam by only serving themselves in this vile manner. It is my hope that these ignorant people learn how their faith has warned against such acts of cruelty and that the world at large understands that we Muslims are just as repulsed by these actions as they are.
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There are too many Muslims still living in the 14 century.
The incident reminds me of pre-Islamic time when Arabs before the advent of Muhammad (pbuh) used to kill their daughters and called it honor killings.
I don't understand how do they justify themselves with the sayings of prophet Muhammad (pbuh) who assured heaven for a father who takes care of his daughters. One of Muhammad's companions once told him how he killed his daughter as an honor killing before becoming a Muslim. He had not finished his narration yet that prophet Muhammad (pbuh) had a stream of tears trickling down from his cheeks and asked him to please stop. He further said: "One who doesn't show mercy will not be shown mercy".
Former Muslims speak out.
Google: Former Muslims United and FaithFreedom dot org.
Google: Treatment of Arab Women
Imran, thank you for your words, which are a great reminder of the true message that was preached by the prophet of Islam. Indeed, he said that whoever takes care of his daughter will find be rewarded with heaven. It is sad that some Muslims forget this teaching, but it is re-assuring to see Muslims like yourself who not only understand but advocate the true teachings of Islam.
Hopefully, with time, we can convince people that statements like those made by Chris King and Allan Erickson are not true about Islam.
Harris Zafar - I said "Many Muslims", not Islam.
It is true not all Muslims are terrorists. However, 99% of terrorist acts world wide are done so by Muslims. Car to disagree?
Yes I do dare to disagree.
Number 1: 99%- really, do provide citations. We live in an educated world, and the only way any statistic has any value is if it comes from a credited, impartial and researched source. Otherwise its useless.
Number 2: Just b/c the majority of terrorist activities shown on the news are said to be done by muslims, does NOT mean that those are the only ones. There are terrorist activities being carried out daily all over the world by underground criminal organizations ie. the mafia, gangs and triads. Just b/c the media doesn't report them, doesn't mean they aren't happening.
Number 3: Saudi Arabia claims to use Islamic laws- BUT if you know anything about Islam, you'll see that their laws are actually very UN-ISLAMIC. They use the name of Islam to carry out their own political agendas and to control the people.
Number 4: Men who perform 'honour killings' go against Islam. It is PRIDE not Islam that is the cause of this cruelty
While honor killings may not be Muhammed's idea, it is clearly associated with Islam. Jesus would not approve of Republican red neck wing nuts, but they still call themselves Xians.
Religion is the problem, it doesn't matter which one, they are all equally bad, equally false.
Number 5: just b/c the terrorists claim to be muslims, does NOT mean that they are doing what muslims should. When a Christian commits a murder, do we blame Christianity? NO, we don't.
Similarly, just b/c a psycho fanatic says he's muslim, does NOT mean that its b/c he's muslim, or that Islam should be blamed.
Number 6: We all come from different faiths and backgrounds. Thus it is essential that we educate ourselves about other's religions, so that we can make informed and educated decisions concerning events in the world; and not jump to conclusions that may be completely off.
As I said earlier, NO- honour killings are NOT Islamic.
They are a result of MALE EGO's- their inability to deal with anyone going against them. IT IS PRIDE, lack of SELF-ESTEEM, and inability to deal with insubordination that leads to these heinious crimes. These men FEAR what their families and friends will say if their children do not obey them.
It is NOT religion that is the problem, but SOCIETY that is the cause. people are always so desperate to appear in a goodlight in front of friends, family and strangers--that the fear of not looking good causes them to go through with foolish, rash and horrid acts ie. honour killings.
University Student Canada - You are in serious deniel.
Answer to #1 - Google it.
Answer to #2 - Gang on Gang violence is not considered Terrorism. When a mobster shoots another it does not fall in the category of terrorism. When a Person runs into a town square and blows up 50 civilians, that IS considered Terrorism.
Answer to #3 - Wahhabism is a sect attributed to Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab, an 18th century scholar from what is today Saudi Arabia. He advocated bringing Islam back to its roots by removing what he considered innovations in Islam (Bidah). He believed that those who practice innovation in Islam are Kafir (infidels)
Answer to #5 - When I see Christians runing around blowing people up and yelling, "Long live Jesus".............. ahh yeah.
Chris King - Oh so when a gang member shoots an innocent person on the street that's not terrorism? The FBI reports 18,000 people are shot dead a year by gangs in America (which by the way is a majority Christian country). What's the response to that? Oh, they're not Christian? But what if they claim they are? Oh, still not? Hmmm, and yet you still say that a psycho who kills who claims he's Muslim, is a Muslim. Double standard my friend.
And let's not forget abortion clinics being blown up. Christian terrorist marches into church and shoots abortion doctor in the face. Yup, just happened a few weeks ago. "Google it"
Over the last decade there have been dozens murdered, hundreds of clinics blown up, and thousands of doctors attacked and beaten to a bloody pulp - all by Christian fundamentalists - all in America. Don't beleive me? "Google it"
Point is, do your research from Muslims who actually practice Islam, not haters who only seek to cause discord. Peace
Google: Islam-What the West Needs to Know full version
Facts are a nuisance to those enslaved to a narrative.
Weekly Jihad Report:
THERELIGIONOFPEACE DOT COM
Nov 21 - Nov 27
Jihad Attacks:30
Dead Bodies:102
Critically Injured:206
Monthly Jihad Report:
October 2009
Jihad Attacks:156
Countries:15
Religions:5
Dead Bodies:909
Critically Injured:2024
Islamic terrorist attacks since 9/11, worldwide: 14,458
Allan - Well if it's a competition of "who's a worse killer" then I'm afraid you lose horribly my friend.
Let's see where Christianity was 1300-1600 years after it came about.
You cited about 15,000 since 9/11 right? Ok sure, no prob.
Death's by Spanish Inquisition: 10,000 plus
Death in Holocaust (Hitler was Christian whether u like it or not): 500,000 plus
Deaths in Slave Trade: 2,000,000 plus
Entire Destruction of Native American people: 100,000 plus (bio warfare, genocide)
Need I go on? Of course, this was all done in the name of Christ.
Should I be silly enough to believe that those lunatics actually represent Jesus? Of course not. Why then, do you insist on believing that the minute number of extremists who claim to be Muslim represent True Islam.
Open your eyes my friend. 15,000 dead is an atrocity and horrifying, but don't kid yourself, the millions that have been killed in the name of Christianity are no less real.
Love4all, and others:
Challenge: source your figures. You cannot pluck things out of the air and expect people to believe you.
Christianity does not teach killing. Islam does. Moral relativism is intellectual suicide. Discover the truth rather than regurgitating what you've been force fed.
For a clear picture, Google:
theophobia persecution goodness world life
You will find Christians have been slaughtered far more than any other people group, by Muslims yes, but moreover, by governments controlled by atheists.
Challenge: Do some research to determine who has been the most prolific slavers in history.
Hitler was a Christian? Please.
Many things have been done in the name of Christ, things he had nothing to do with. The devil is a master of disguise.
Many things have been and are done in the name of Muhammed and his followers celebrate it, endorse it, teach it, promote it, and indoctrinate children likewise.
Wake up.
PS: Just a little exercise in critical thinking.
According to footnote research at Wikipedia, 650,000 Africans were brought to America between the 16th and 19th centuries. In 1860 the population had grown to 4 million according to the census.
Does anyone really believe two million were killed or died of abuse as Love4all insists? Slaves were valuable, not expendable.
Research indicates no one knows how many people were killed during the Inquisition. Some estimates put the number at 2,000, others say 30,000. The Inquisition lasted 300 years, and had nothing to do with the teachings of Christ.
The tragedy of the Native Americans was death by disease which few understood at the time, and was certainly not genocide via bio-weapon. Absolutely no evidence to support that assertion.
WWII deaths blamed on Christians? You must be kidding...
Allan - Well if it's a competition of "who's a worse killer" then I'm afraid you lose horribly my friend.
Let's see where Christianity was 1300-1600 years after it came about.
You cited about 15,000 since 9/11 right? Ok sure, no prob.
Death's by Spanish Inquisition: 10,000 plus
Death in Holocaust (Hitler was Christian whether u like it or not): 500,000 plus
Deaths in Slave Trade: 2,000,000 plus
Entire Destruction of Native American people: 100,000 plus (bio warfare, genocide)
Need I go on? Of course, this was all done in the name of Christ.
Should I be silly enough to believe that those lunatics actually represent Jesus? Of course not. Why then, do you insist on believing that the minute number of extremists who claim to be Muslim represent True Islam.
Open your eyes my friend. 15,000 dead is an atrocity and horrifying, but don't kid yourself, the millions that have been killed in the name of Christianity are no less real.
Allan - Wow, Wikipedia, great resource (not).
Do you realize what your best argument was to refute everything I said? It was when you said, "The Inquisition lasted 300 years, and had nothing to do with the teachings of Christ."
YES! AGREED! How does it make you feel that the Church maligned the name of Christ in such a horrible way? Bothers you doesn't it? Perhaps angers you?
But the difference between you and me is that I'm not blind enough to follow Robert Spencer and other biggoted indoviduals like him. Think about your approach. You have a Muslim (Harris Zafar) telling you that Islam only promotes peace, and terrorists who kill in the name of Islam "have nothing to do with the teachings of Islam."
Yet, you choose to believe a non Muslim who tells you otherwise. That's like me believing a Jew that Christians are corrupted genocidal maniacs. Doesn't make much sense does it.
Oh, btw, the early Christians purposely gave small pox infected blankets to kill the In
To kill the Indians. This is such a well documented fact that any minor search on the internet will find it (from an unbiased source at that).
Anyway, You've made your point that you choose not to listen to a Muslim about Islam, but rather to one who hates Muslims. That's your choice.
This'll be my last post on this topic. God bless you and guide you, Amen.
peace
Mr.Spencer knows what he is talking about re honor killings. The koran says that those that leave the faith have to be killed.
Love4all:
Challenge: Google the documentary "Islam: What the West Needs to Know" full version, watch it carefully, then get back to me about the teachings of authoritative Islam from the Koran and the Hadith.
What of those smallpox-infested blankets that have received so much press? Medved examines the evidence and concludes “The endlessly recycled charges of biological warfare rest solely on controversial interpretations of two unconnected and inconclusive incidents 74 years apart.”
The first was in response to Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763), a ferocious small war undertaken by the Great Lakes Indians (who had been allied with the defeated French in the French and Indian War) against British settlements. The Ottawa leader Pontiac told his followers to “exterminate” the whites. They did their best. Hundreds of settlers were tortured, scalped, cannibalized, dismembered, or burned at the stake. As the Indians were besieging Fort Pitt, Field Marshal Lord Jeffery Amherst wrote to a subordinate, “Could it not be contrived to send the Small Pox among the disaffected tribes of Indians?” But nothing seems to have come from this correspondence.
From a column by Mona Charen, National Review
Also from Charen's column:
The other episode is alleged by fired professor Ward Churchill (yes, the one who invented his Creek and Muscogee heritage and fabricated his academic research), and concerns an outbreak of smallpox among the Mandan tribe in 1837. There is no evidence that the whites intentionally infected the Indians in that case, and considerable evidence that the settlers attempted to prevent the outbreak.
There were terrible injustices and massacres committed by Europeans against Native Americans and some running the other way as well. The more technologically advanced civilization prevailed — which is the usual course in human affairs. But the current fashion to distort that history into something like a war crime is, to say the least, overstated.
Love4all "You have a Muslim (Harris Zafar) telling you that Islam only promotes peace, and terrorists who kill in the name of Islam "have nothing to do with the teachings of Islam."
Yet, you choose to believe a non Muslim who tells you otherwise. That's like me believing a Jew that Christians are corrupted genocidal maniacs. Doesn't make much sense does it."
Ok, do you mean that Islam studies at Universities can be staffed by Muslims only?
Did you believe Soviet Union when it declared that it was 4peace everywhere and its Red Army invaded Tschechoslovakia in 1968 to defend peace against approaching German invasion?
By the way - in the Holocaust 6 million Jews were killed, not "500 000+". Hitler never justified Holocaust as a Christian endeavor, did he?
And the slave trade in Africa was run by Muslims. By the way, what happened to all those millions of African slaves sent to Muslim countries over centuries? I do not see much black minority in Arab countries, do you?
Thank you all for your fascinating comments, which I have found rewarding to read. I do find it unfortunate that people like "skep" and "Greg" seem to have nothing but distrust for Muslims...all Muslims...even myself. Any statement made by someone like Robert Spencer, who has nothing but hatred for Islam and Muslims, is taken as true fact. But any statement made by a genuine Muslim, who has actually studied his faith and can speak for the teachings of Islam, is taken as either uninformed or a lie.
I sincerely hope that there is some way in which skep and Greg can find trust in Muslims like myself who have nothing to hide. I speak out against Muslims who behave in a manner contrary to the true teachings of Islam. I have spent almost 15 years studying this faith and know that there is nothing in Islam that sanctions the type of behavior that you abhor. That is not a lie...it is the truth.
Islam is a religion of barbarity and irrationality. It belongs in the dark ages.
Love - Terrible rebuttle.
Love4All - That was then, this is now.
This page right here- full of all these comments - is barbaric, full of hatred and discrimination. You want to live in a world like this? Then please, do continue all your "muslims are evil" propoganda. How long will it be before muslims are being killed in the streets? How long before little children at school start attacking each other b/c their parents say muslims are bad?
Enough is enough. Grow up. Wasn't hitler enough for you? Do you want another massacre like the haulocaust? B/c continue like this and children will take this hatred into their heads, and grow up thinking they need to rectify it- and what easier way than to kill all the 'evil muslims'...sound familiar- hitler, nazis, destruction of millions of lives.
We are educated. Let's stop this bickering and open our minds. If you don't like Islam, don't convert. But don't spread hatred and discrimination either. This is not a personal matter. So stop attacking eachother.
As I said earlier, NO- honour killings are NOT Islamic.
They are a result of MALE EGO's- their inability to deal with anyone going against them. IT IS PRIDE, lack of SELF-ESTEEM, and inability to deal with insubordination that leads to these heinious crimes. These men FEAR what their families and friends will say if their children do not obey them.
It is NOT religion that is the problem, but SOCIETY that is the cause. people are always so desperate to appear in a goodlight in front of friends, family and strangers--that the fear of not looking good causes them to go through with foolish, rash and horrid acts ie. honour killings.
History repeats itself. That is the way of the world. Humans make the same mistakes over and over again; problems may have a different mask, but internally they are the same.
This is yet another repetion of the cycle.
Also, all else aside, "google it" is not considered a reliable, credited, impartial and researched resource in the scholarly world. And as a university student, those are the only resources that may be said to be valid; and from whose contents a statistical piece of data may be considered creditable.
I have read too many research papers, and the articles written on them for the average public, to trust statistics found in articles anymore. They tend to cut out many important parts that they deem 'too uninteresting' to the average person. Only 'juicy' if somewhat inaccurate stats are included in articles. They will include "67% of the cows in the county were deemed unhealthy" but they will exclude that perhaps only 5 out of the 20 farms in the county had been sampled (had data collected from them). And thus, that the percentage applies on to those 5 farms, not to the entire county.
So be careful of the stats you read- anyone can have a website these days.
F.H. Almaleki, is a victim of the Islamic teaching, In Muslim Countries Muslims do not have freedom to choose the Religion, Muslim is not allowed to leave Islam and convert to Christianity, and if he does then the sword of Islam is on his neck where ever he goes by his family or any other Muslim.
An Imam and Professor of Islamic History in Al Azhar University in Cairo met with an American Imam who converted to Islam and was preaching Islam freely, then Al Azhar professor was wondering how come no one tried to kill the American converted Imam! while he (the professor) had to lose his job at Al Azhar UNI, and was tortured and was fighting for his life until he left his Muslim Country (Egypt), all because he chose to convert to Christianity.
REF, www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWVA_dcvD_8&feature=related
It seems the moderate Muslims who live in the western Countries these days do not know the fundamental teaching of their Religion, or denying them and pretend they do not exist.
Western Terrorism Report : Quarter MILLION murdered.
Day 1: Hiroshima
August 6, 1945
Dead: 70,000 women, children, men & elderly murdered immediately.
Total: 200,000 people dead due to long term effects (burning, cancer, etc.)
Day 2: Nagasaki
August 9, 1945
Dead: 40,000 men, children, women & elderly murdered immediately.
Total: 70, 000
Injured: 60,000
www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/hiroshima.htm
In the mind of western Extremists:
Five years ago, when I was in the 11th grade at a NJ public high school, I sat through a shocking class discussion during which my fellow classmates tried to justify these events: the killing of children, elderly and women. They then proceeded in the next few days to discuss the weak terrorist ideology and the fact that nothing terrorists had to say could justify killing innocent people.
If you ask me, they're both hypocritical extremists. Islam is free of all these small, weak extremist groups.
www.islamagainstextremism.com
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