Pakistan has struck up a record number of honor killings in the space of two weeks. A dozen cases have been reported. That’s almost one a day.

Islamic honor killings are often denied by Islamic supremacists. Take for example an article which is titled “There is no honor in honor killings” in Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper. Firstly, it is obvious that there is no honor in honor killings; however, there is no denying either that the practice is done precisely to ‘preserve’ the so-called honor of the family in some cultures. The Globe and Mail article includes reference to a report published by Islamic Relief Canada aimed at “changing the narratives on honor and shame among Muslim-Canadian communities”. The report tried to “challenge” the so-called “misguided religious justifications for honour-based violence that are often used to perpetuate and mitigate the practice.” Unfortunately, Islamic edict permits such action and therefore, it is not deemed to be “misguided” or wrong by those who embrace its tenets.

The Sunni Sharia manual Umdat al-Salik (The Reliance of the Traveller) permits a father to kill his offspring with impunity:

“Section o1.2 lists many cases of murder for which the murderer is granted immunity. Case #4 refers specifically to that of a parent who kills his/her child: A child or insane person, under any circumstances A Muslim for killing a non-Muslim A Jewish or Christian subject of the Islamic state for killing an apostate from Islam A father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring “

Muslims should not be covering up such barbarity (still being practiced today), or the sharia justification of it. It should be admitted to, and then widely condemned by Muslims but this is not the case. Muslims and non-Muslims who point it out openly are deemed to be “Islamophobic”, xenophobic, racist and the like.

Although esteemed author and human rights leader Phyllis Chesler notes that honor killing is not uniquely a Muslim problem, she also notes that…

Once people with such tribal traditions and psychologies travel to the West, the exacting shame-and-honor codes should no longer apply. But apply they do, at least among Muslims and, to a lesser extent, among Sikhs.

Chesler further stated…

There were many more honor killings in Europe than in America, since there was a large immigrant, mainly Muslim, population there.

In 2017, a Sharia court in the UK handed down a sentence approving of honor killing.

“Pakistan authorities record a dozen cases of ‘honour’ killing in a fortnight”, by Shah Meer Baloch, The Guardian, May 17, 2019: