Honor killings are committed by Muslim male family members against female family members, who are held to have brought ‘dishonor’ upon the family. And murder somehow restores the family’s honor.
And if you find this abhorrent, Liberals might accuse you of Islamophobia.
Because…cultural diversity.
Via NY Post.
The brother of Qandeel Baloch, whose risqué social media posts both titillated and appalled conservative Pakistan, on Sunday admitted to strangling her in a crime that reignited debate about so-called “honor killings” in the South Asian nation.
Muhammad Waseem said he gave a “tablet” to Baloch to subdue her and then strangled her in their family home over the weekend.
“I have no regrets,” he told journalists in a press conference arranged by the police early on Sunday….
More than 500 people — almost all women — die in Pakistan each year in such killings, usually carried out by members of the victim’s family meting out punishment for bringing “shame” on the community.
Waseem said he killed his sister due to her social media activities, which included a series of posts with a prominent Muslim cleric, Abdul Qavi. One video shows her sitting on the cleric’s lap….
Baloch, who called herself a modern day feminist, was described as Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian and built a modeling career on the back of her social media fame.
“As women we must stand up for ourselves. As women, we must stand up for each other,” she told her 758,000 followers on Facebook, days before her death….
Related:
Washington Examiner: AP ties Pakistani model’s honor killing to ‘conservatives’
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Even cavemen weren’t this evil. I wonder if these are considered moderate Muslims. In the West, (aside from a mental disorder) we can’t even conceive of this kind of hideousness. We have our Judeo-Christian ethic to thank for that.
So she died because of an ‘anti-Islamic’ video. As ugly a lie as the American one.