Comments on: Another Dishonorable Crime

By: Thirteen at The Black Iris of Jordan

Thirteen at The Black Iris of Jordan — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:31:55 +0000

[...] What makes an honor crime unique as a story is the shock value and that consists of three main elements. Firstly the initial impact of the story where we discover a brother or a father taking the life of a sister or a daughter with such unbridled and incomprehensible savagery. Then the second impact of learning why they did it. This is followed by the third impact: they spend very little time in jail for their crime. The shock value can be measured based on these three elements and their varying quantity; like ingredients to a recipe of viciousness. Every one of these crimes carries its own shock value and every one of them is a unique tale of the (in)human capacity to commit a crime that is so abominable. I know four posts ago I told the story of the Kingdom’s 12th victim of this crime this year, so I guess it’s a sad sign of the times that so soon comes the story of the 13th… [...]

By: fad

fad — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:50:36 +0000

sorrowful,
learn English. the word is save not safe. climb out from under the rock and join the rest of us please. haha

By: Sorrowful

Sorrowful — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 05:52:37 +0000

ah, well why dont you girls stay away from trouble and safe your life hahah

By: Danial

Danial — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:10:34 +0000

What the hell is wrong with some people? This is f*cked up beyond imagination.

By: fad

fad — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:40:23 +0000

what i donâ??t get is how one sibling can kill another in cold blood.

QUESTION: 1) is it that easy and guilt free to off your sister? should sisters every where in Jordan be on the look out for younger brothers?
2) if we humans (and i use the term loosely) are supposed to be learning from God’s Laws…then why donâ??t we just read the story of Kane and Able. one sibling kills the other (doesnâ??t matter why)and God SPITES Kane, puts a mark on his forehead so all know him for what he is and then God sends him into the wilderness. i donâ??t see any of these A*%#*& being marked, Spited or sent into any wilderness by our powers that be.
3)in this latest cold blooded killing, as the brother stabbed his sister to her death, what was the father doing? watching? cheering him on? calling the police?
4) if a woman killed her father, brother, husband, cousin or what have you because he had committed adultery, coveted his neighborâ??s wife or had relations out of the sanctity of marriage…THEN YOU CAN REST ASSURED THAT WOMEN WOULD BE JUDGED AND KILLED FASTER THAN OUR RESIDENT WOULD BE BOMBER!!!!

THIS ALL STOPS WHEN WOMEN STOP TAKING THIS PATRIARCHAL LINE OF JUSTIFICATION OF MALE ACTIONS

By: Hamrah

Hamrah — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:44:53 +0000

There seems to be much confusion about Crimes of Honor, no thanks to the selection of the name which confuses everyone.

The problem in this case is not the crime, but the problem is the punishment, or lack there of.

Meaning, when someone kills for honor or claims to do so, the killer gets of the hook with a light sentence if the killer is male.

You will find crimes of honor in Brazil, India, Indonesia. But the dishonor in Jordan is for the official establishment that gets the murderer off the hook lightly not because religion permits it, but because we allow pagan norms (jahelliyah) that predated Islam to take precedent over both religious or modern laws.

On of the few things we in Jordan can call truly ours

By: Shaden

Shaden — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:46:22 +0000

That’s the weirdest story I’ve ever heard, I don’t think that’s what really happened.

By: Nas

Nas — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:03:31 +0000

i can understand it, i just dont comprehend it.

By: Iman

Iman — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:52:33 +0000

and sadly, I don’t think this outrageous (to say the very least) ‘tradition’ will ever stop …

-What gives any man or boy the right to take away another life!
-Why is honor(what is honor anyway!) only female related!

I can’t begin to understand …