FP: It’s important to mention here that Dr. Phyllis Chesler, a noble freedom fighter on the frontlines in our terror war today, has done an exhaustive, unprecedented and priceless study, Worldwide Trends in Honor Killings, which documents all the crucial facts and statistics regarding this crime against Muslim women. I urge all of our readers to resort to it.
So let’s continue.
What are the Islamic foundations to honor killing?
Geller: Jamie, Muslims are not the sole perpetrators of honor killings, but a recent survey showed that 91 percent of honor killings worldwide are committed by Muslims, and 84 percent of honor killings in the United States were done by Muslims.
This is no surprise. A manual of Islamic law approved by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, stipulates that “retaliation is obligatory…against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.” However, “not subject to retaliation” is “a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring.” In other words, Islamic law sets no penalty for a parent who kills his child.
Also, the legal codes of Jordan, Syria, and other Muslim countries have substantially reduced penalties for honor murders as compared to other murders, and Islamic clerics have resisted efforts to stiffen penalties for honor killings.
FP: And, without doubt, the fear and hatred of female sexuality that serves as a foundation to Islam engenders the fertile soil for Islamic honor killings.
So why this particular tactic of your new campaign?
Geller: This is a growing problem that is being hidden and obfuscated by the big liberal press. It needs the spotlight of truth to expose the ugly terrible reality behind the wretched existence of these girls living under siege. The West is reluctant to speak of it, media whitewashes it, but knowing what we know about Aqsa Parvez’s homelife (read the whole horrible account here) and Amina and Sarah’s wretched home life (read here), it is time we stood up for these girls. This cannot stand in America.
I thought the taxicab advertising was a perfect medium to get our message to the people who are hungry, tired of the lies and starving for information that the media is too afraid to provide. The taxis are a powerful medium to pull the curtain back on the obfuscation and deception on honor killings. Kudos to Jeff at the Verifone Company for understanding this new use of an old medium to spread the truth.
FP: What do you hope this campaign can help achieve?
Geller: What we hope to achieve is that these girls will not have died in vain. These girls are not invisible. Their terrible, miserable existences will be known, and their stories will save the lives of other girls and boys in trouble. Such misogyny was unheard of this country 30 thirty years ago — the appeasement to Islam and the Sharia will only serve to advance this grotesque ideology.
FP: How can ordinary citizens help save Muslim girls from honor killing?
Geller: SIOA plans to take this campaign nationwide, and is currently soliciting donations to do so. Those who want to help this awareness campaign can donate at sioaonline.com.
We must give these girls shelter from the storm.
Don’t be afraid. Fight back. If you know of someone in trouble or danger of honor killing, contact me at writeatlas@aol.com and Robert Spencer at director@jihadwatch.org. We have people who can and will help.
FP: Pamela Geller thank you so much for standing up for persecuted Muslim women and girls – whose terrible and tragic plight is ignored by Western culture and media for the sake of political correctness. Because of brave and noble people like you, the Aqsa Parvezes of this world will not be forgotten and the chances are increased that innocent Muslim women and girls can be saved from torture, maiming and murder. What a disgrace for leftist feminists to remain silent and stand by while their Muslim sisters are so barbarically oppressed by Islamic gender apartheid.
Thank you Pamela Geller for standing up for the voiceless who need the world’s help and protection. You are a true hero.
Frontpage encourages all of its readers to help Pamela in her valiant efforts on behalf of persecuted Muslim women and to contact her at writeatlas@aol.com.
In a sane world, it would be NOW and other feminist groups that would be sponsoring these ads. But the feminists abandoned women long ago in their embrace of the multicultural narrative…and won't touch this subject with a ten-foot pole.
One wonders what the national officers of NOW might think of Pamela's campaign. Are they secretly appreciative of the effort?…perhaps even envious that it is not their own? Or do they just feel unremitting hostility towards it because it violates the multicultural ethos?
One might also wonder how or even if history will record this strange chapter in American history…when the political Right stood up for Muslim women and their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
They say history is written by the winners. That said, these ads will either be recorded as a relevant episode in the raising of public awareness about the threat Islam poses to human freedom…or they will be expunged from the historical record.
Either way, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer are doing everything they can. We owe them a debt of gratitude.
Will arselifters be driving those taxis?
Incorrigible, Gary!
A good question would be, "If Muslims are driving those taxis, what will happen when they refuse to drive because of the ads?" There will be many … if not all … of them who will refuse to drive.
Especially in the Western world, as much light as possible must be shone on this problem. Honor killings cannot be tolerated by the state, and those who commit such heinous acts must be tried and convicted for capital felony murder.
"If Muslims are driving those taxis, what will happen when they refuse to drive because of the ads?"
We'll get lots of free publicity when the obvious dichotomy of "peace-loving" Muslims who are in favor of honor killings gets forced into the mainstream press by the conservative blogosphere?
We will, indeed!
Give that they refuse to take people carrying alcohol, or disabled people with guide dogs, and have a propensity to rape single female passengers, do we really need to wonder?
Agreed that horror killing are still murder. Usually, the whole family is involved. In Europe, the trend is to have the younger, under-age males in the family do it as they usually get a lighter sentence.
I agree with almost all of what's posted on FrontPageMag.com and most of what the David Horowitz Freedom Center is about. But sometimes a guy has to say what he feels. So today, I'm going to play devil's advocate. I believe one reason why honor killings persist, is that Islamic women themselves support it.
What do I mean? Imagine you're a federal employee, a middle-manager who makes a good salary. Now imagine that someone from Senator Plotnik's office leans on you to support his re-election campaign. With the Hatch act, which makes it a firing offense for a federal employee to use his office to dabble in politics, you could say, "I'm sorry, I'd like to support Senator Plotnik, but I'm Hatched". People familiar with government employment will tell you that when someone says "I'm Hatched", they're not really complaining.
So likewise, if an Islamic woman tells a guy who's sexually pressuring her, "My father and brother would kill me", perhaps she's not really complaining.
Bravo Pamela. You're a mensch! and great article Jamie….keep up the good work.
Great Idea, most people are not aware of Islam's Shari law. If you really want to make people aware of Islam and sharia law, a movie on the life of Mohammed would certainly discourage new and existing followers. There have been movies on Jesus, Moses, etc. but no one has the guts to make one on Mohammed ( the worse type of man) because they would be killed. I suggest everyone read the Life and Religion of Mohammed by J L Menzes.
Immigration policies need to take into account that certain cultures, not just Muslims, have traditions that are in direct contravention of laws in civilized countries and applicants from these cultures must be rejected, at best, very carefully screened for potential assimilation. Anything less leaves us with the importation of sub-human garbage to degrade our society and quality of life.
This is about time and this is one courageous cab driver.
This is a message that needs to reach ALL westerners – especially those who refuse to see the dangers of this particular Islamic teaching. While many are aware of this safety issue for women and girls in Islamic families – too many others step back and claim 'freedom of religion' and 'we can't interfere'. When murders occur in non Muslim homes, they are investigated, perpetrators put into prison, and the newspapers proclaim indignation over this action. This must happen when women and girls are murdered in Muslim homes as well. The 17,000 figure for the UK is shocking. If we are to prevent that in the Americas, our campaign must begin now.
Unless Americans become aware of what is happening to Muslim daughters and wives we will end up like Europe becoming more and more Islamic to the point where Sharia law is observed in certain places in Europe. This must end and it should end with the death penalty of those who would perpetrate these inhumane killings against their innocent victims.
The whole point of these ads is not only to save the lives of possible future victims, but also to educate the general public. It has been my experience that people can't quite get their minds around this issue. They think that its an exaggeration because the whole thing is illogical. After all, how could a parent murder their child? It must be only mentally deranged people that do that and they are the exception. Right? The bottom line is that they do not know enough about islam. When one knows about islam it makes perfect sense even if it is "illogical."
any chance we will see these cabs in London, Paris or Tehran?
You are most awesome, dear Pamela! Thank you for having the passion and the guts to try to save the lives of these precious girls. May G-D bless this campaign with much success and free girls from the threat of Islamic honor killing.
It's about time that there is an organization that is spreading the truth and helping these girls. They are in my prayers. thank you Jaime for this article and the awarness that it brings.
Thank you Pamela. Muslim ways are terrible – even in their own countries, but let us not tolerate this type if behavior here in America. That philosophy needs to be exported back to the dungeons from where it came and protect America's children from their despicable beliefs and traditions. Let us not regress back to the days of witch hunts and lynchings. Honor killings, beheadings and penal amputations have no place here in the land of the free, consciously and purposefully moral people.
hello,
I am the victim of Honor killing. Lost my baby. I know that this is all culture and this has nothing to with Islam.. If you really want to help women like us then create hidden support group. I cannot tell my story because it will create a big storm here. I hope this So called honor killing comes to a Stop. I am still Muslim and I love my religion. this is all Man made culture which is so much in the roots of the families that they can't separate the culture and Religion.
thank you for reading
-S
Muslim women are also raped when they do not abide by Islamic cultural dress codes.
These women and young girls suffer in silence as all are far too ashamed and terrified of coming forwward about their rape cases.
It is a disgusting ideology of the Moon God Cult and should be irradicated from the face of the earth.
I don't mean genocide of the people. I mean a mass de-prgramming from the cult of Islam. These poor souls are brainwashed from birth. This is very disturbing and it is psychologically damaging to the young victims in these Muslim families but it also puts enormous pressure on our society when we become forced to submit and accept their cult of violence and warfare.
It's ironic that liberals accuse Pam of hatred and bigotry when she is trying to help muslim girls and women.
Expect to see any of these cabs in London, Paris or Tehran soon?