cartoon1

cartoon1

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Honor killings: it's not just for men anymore

Accused Khatun and Subrato, mothers of victims Zahida and Husna
Accused Khatun and Subrato, mothers of
victims Zahida and Husna
 
Their daughters married non-Muslim men, therefore they must die.  To bring dishonor to Muslims by their actions demanded they pay witrh their lives.
 
This is Islam.
 
 
From IndiaExpress.com May 14 by Vijaita Singh 
 
Two Muslim women in an Uttar Pradesh town, 40 km east of Delhi, allegedly killed their daughters because they had eloped and married migrant Bihari Hindu labourers, police said.



The victims had sought police protection after they returned to their homes in Baghpat earlier this week, but the subdivisional magistrate sent them home to reconcile with their mothers.



On Wednesday night, Khatun and Subrato, both of whom are widows, allegedly tied their daughters, 19-year-old Zahida and 26-year-old Husna, to cots and threw a rope around their necks. They then held the girls down and tightened the noose until the victims suffocated to death, police said.



Khatun and Subrato have been arrested. A third woman called Momina, their neighbour in Baghpat’s Muslim-dominated Mughalpura area, who allegedly helped them commit the murders, is on the run.

No comments: