Of course. Muslims who commit acts of violence always have mental health issues. But he said she was cheating on him and planning to leave him. That brings us into the realms of honor killing.
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.”
Until the encouragement Islamic law gives to honor killing is acknowledged and confronted, more women will suffer.
“LaSalle man convicted of first-degree murder of wife,” Canadian Press, October 29, 2017 (thanks to B.):
Ahmad Nehme was convicted on Sunday of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his wife, Catherine de Boucherville, on July 5 2012, in Montreal…
/The 53-year-old had confessed to the murder of his wife.
The defence had argued Nehme wasn’t criminally responsible because of mental health issues…
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