“Cultural reasons.”
What culture? Of course, the police in shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain would never dare say that there was any problem with Islamic culture. But this may have been an honor killing.
In the Qur’an, a mysterious figure, known as Khidr in Islamic tradition, kills a boy in an apparently random and gratuitous attack. He then explains: “And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. So we intended that their Lord should substitute for them one better than him in purity and nearer to mercy.” (18:80-81)
And according to Islamic law, “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.” (Reliance of the Traveller o1.1-2).
Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but “the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour ‘provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.’” And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that “Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.” In Iran, according to the New York Times, the legal system “treats parents who murder their children with relative leniency, as the maximum sentence for the crime is only ten years.”
“Liverpool death: Cultural issues part of murder probe, police say,” BBC, November 31, 2021:
…The body of Malak Adabzadeh, 47, was found at the home in The Green in Stoneycroft on Thursday.
Three men have been arrested on suspicion of murdering Ms Adabzadeh, also known as Katy, Merseyside Police said.
Her family said the “loving” mother would be “missed terribly”.
Two men from Stoneycroft, aged 21 and 57, and a man from Norris Green, 46, were arrested on Thursday and remain in custody.
Det Supt Cheryl Rhodes said: “At this early stage we are keeping an open mind as to the motive but one of those lines of enquiry is that it may have been for domestic or other cultural reasons.”
“Malak Adabzadeh death: Man charged with murder,” BBC, December 4, 2021:
A man has been charged with murdering a woman who was found dead at a house.
Iranian national Malak Adabzadeh was pronounced dead at the scene after police were called to The Green in Stoneycroft, Liverpool, on 25 November.
Merseyside Police said a post-mortem examination found the 47-year-old had died from head trauma.
Mohammad Ureza Azizi, 57, of The Green, Stoneycroft, is due to appear before Liverpool magistrates on Saturday after being charged with her murder….
