SYRIA: 16-YEAR-OLD ‘HONOR KILLED’ BY BROTHER

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

“Sixteen-year-old Zahra Ezzo died at the hospital last month after a brutal attack. But it was her brother who confessed to killing her – and her family who appointed him to carry out the murder,” per Rasha Elass, The Christian Science Monitor.

It is the extremist Muslim custom of “honor killing.” Extremist Muslim males may murder a female accused of bringing shame on the clan. This takes place daily throughout the extremist Muslim world.
“Some experts estimate that 200 to 300 honor killings like Zahra’s occur every year in Syria. Most receive little or no attention.

“But Zahra’s murder – in part because it happened in the capital and not a rural area – has compelled Syria’s grand mufti, cleric Ahmad Hassoun, to publicly condemn the crime, calling for the first time for the immediate protection of girls at risk and for legal reform on the basis that such crimes are un-Islamic.

President Bashar al-Assad has also promised to find a solution.”
In country sections of Muslim territories, females are slain with little or no attention attending the action, the latter not considered a crime by fanatic Muslims. Media will not touch the incidents in many cases. Police and legal authorities often give extremist Muslim males the leeway to commit such slayings by turning their heads the other way.

Fanatic Muslims consider females cursed from conception. The curse is defined by extremist Muslims as showing genitals in public. The curses number ten; one curse may be lifted if the female marries a Muslim.

“Among the public, too, debate is rising about the practice and the laws that protect men who carry out such killings. A key question is whether the brother should go on trial for premeditated murder – the family had planned it for months – or as someone who had no choice because the clan’s honor was at stake.”

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