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In [[Jordan]], about 20 women are murdered each year in honor killings, sometimes for simply dating a man. Until recently, the Jordanian penal code allowed for "honor" killers to get sentences as lenient as six months. Attempts to apply thougher punishments for these henious crimes are resisted and blocked by the country's Muslim lawmakers.<ref>FOX News: [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,246712,00.html Jordanian Shoots Dead 17-Year-Old Daughter in Honor Killing] (January 25, 2007)</ref>

In [[Jordan]], about 20 women are murdered each year in honor killings, sometimes for simply dating a man. Until recently, the Jordanian penal code allowed for "honor" killers to get sentences as lenient as six months. Attempts to apply thougher punishments for these henious crimes are resisted and blocked by the country's Muslim lawmakers.<ref>FOX News: [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,246712,00.html Jordanian Shoots Dead 17-Year-Old Daughter in Honor Killing] (January 25, 2007)</ref>

== Islamic basis of honor killing ==

== Middle East ==

In the [[Koran]], it says, "If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, take the evidence of four (reliable) witness from amongst you against them; if they testify, confine them to houses until death do claim them. Or God ordain for them some (other) way." <ref>Koran 4:15 [http://www.searchquran.org/?k=4:11&t=1&h=off&noar=]</ref>

In the [[Koran]], it says, "If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, take the evidence of four (reliable) witness from amongst you against them; if they testify, confine them to houses until death do claim them. Or God ordain for them some (other) way." <ref>Koran 4:15 [http://www.searchquran.org/?k=4:11&t=1&h=off&noar=]</ref>

Sahi Muslim number 4206 says, "There came to him (the Holy Prophet) a woman from Ghamid and said: [[Allah]]'s Messenger, I have committed [[adultery]], so purify me... And she was put in a ditch up to her chest and he commanded people and they [[Stoning|stoned]] her. Khalid b Walid came forward with a stone which he flung at her head and there spurted blood on the face of Khalid and so he abused her." <ref>Hadith of the holy prophet (may peace be upon him) [http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/017.smt.html#017.4206]</ref>

Sahi Muslim number 4206 says, "There came to him (the Holy Prophet) a woman from Ghamid and said: [[Allah]]'s Messenger, I have committed [[adultery]], so purify me... And she was put in a ditch up to her chest and he commanded people and they [[Stoning|stoned]] her. Khalid b Walid came forward with a stone which he flung at her head and there spurted blood on the face of Khalid and so he abused her." <ref>Hadith of the holy prophet (may peace be upon him) [http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/017.smt.html#017.4206]</ref>

==Honor killings in Europe==

== Europe ==

Police estimate there are a dozen or so honor killings in [[Britain]] annually; even more women are sent back home where their fate is never known.

Police estimate there are a dozen or so honor killings in [[Britain]] annually; even more women are sent back home where their fate is never known.

[[Germany]] has also seen hideous cases of honor killings. In 2008, in [[Hamburg]], a 16-year-old [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] girl was stabbed 20 times by her 23-year-old brother because "she had become too comfortable with Western life with her uncovered hair, makeup and short skirts."<ref>FOX News: [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,358661,00.html Afghan Girl's 'Honor Killing' Sparks Debate in Germany] (May 27, 2008)</ref> In a 2009 case of self-[[censorship]] derived from the 2005 [[Muhammad cartoons controversy]], the German book publisher Droste Verlag canceled a novel about this barbaric practice, in fear that the book would offend the Muslim community and spark violent retaliations.<ref>FOX News: [http://www.foxnews.com/world/2009/10/09/german-publisher-fearing-muslim-retaliation-cancels-honor-killing-novel/ German Publisher, Fearing Muslim Retaliation, Cancels Honor-Killing Novel] (October 9, 2009)</ref>

[[Germany]] has also seen hideous cases of honor killings. In 2008, in [[Hamburg]], a 16-year-old [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] girl was stabbed 20 times by her 23-year-old brother because "she had become too comfortable with Western life with her uncovered hair, makeup and short skirts."<ref>FOX News: [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,358661,00.html Afghan Girl's 'Honor Killing' Sparks Debate in Germany] (May 27, 2008)</ref> In a 2009 case of self-[[censorship]] derived from the 2005 [[Muhammad cartoons controversy]], the German book publisher Droste Verlag canceled a novel about this barbaric practice, in fear that the book would offend the Muslim community and spark violent retaliations.<ref>FOX News: [http://www.foxnews.com/world/2009/10/09/german-publisher-fearing-muslim-retaliation-cancels-honor-killing-novel/ German Publisher, Fearing Muslim Retaliation, Cancels Honor-Killing Novel] (October 9, 2009)</ref>

==The Searchers==

== North America ==

Honor killing has never been tolerated in the U.S., apart from the the lynching of black men accused or raping white women, which was tolerated by some in the era of [[Jim Crow]].   

Honor killing has never been tolerated in the U.S., apart from the the lynching of black men accused or raping white women, which was tolerated by some in the era of [[Jim Crow]].