Swapping Justice For Political Correctness

We don't want to give off the wrong signals, you know?

You may remember Faleh Almaleki, an Arizona Muslim who last year ran over his own daughter in an honour killing for becoming "too Westernised". In a just world, Almaleki would have his own life taken for what he has done.

However, the County Attorney's Office has given assurance that Almaleki will not be executed. The reason? You're going to want to read this sitting down. You see, they wanted to ensure "that there is no appearance that a Christian is seeking to execute a Muslim for racial, political, religious or cultural beliefs."

This is not a just world, for today, political correctness is more important than justice. Welcome to the United States of Amerabia.

Yet Another Attempted Islamic Honour Killing In America

Faleh Almaleki ran over his own daughter because she was "too Westernised"

According to ABC News: "Police in Arizona are hunting for an Iraqi-American father who they say ran over his daughter with his car to punish her for becoming 'too Westernized' and rebuffing the conservative ways he valued."

Note to ABC - "conservatives" generally don't run people over with cars for "rebuffing" their values.

In any case, the article drags out the usual apologist to explain that Islam doesn't teach anything that could remotely justify this and that Muslims are under increasing risk of being victimised. In this case, the apologist happens to be a member a member of the Muslim American Society, which is an arm of the radical Muslim Brotherhood.

Ibrahim Ramey, human and civil rights director for the Muslim American Society's Freedom Foundation, told ABCNews.com that whenever this type of crime involves a Muslim it can serve to elevate the fears of people who may already harbor misconceptions about Islam.

Mr. Ramey completely ignores the fact that it is Muslims themselves who are the ones with the misconceptions about Islam, since even in America, they keep on committing honour killings, despite the fact that there is supposedly no sanction in Islam for doing so. We've seen this in the cases of Aqsa Parvez, who was murdered for not wearing a hijab, Amina and Sarah Said, who were murdered for dating non-Muslims, Muzzamil Hassan, who set up a TV channel to challenge "misconceptions about Islam" but ended up beheading his wife after she filed for divorce, and others. Why do they all keep doing this? Don't they know that the Qur'an says that there is "no compulsion in religion"? Don't they know that Islam values women's rights?

Honour killing is broadly tolerated in Islamic societies, and I wrote about some of the reasons why here. All the while Muslim groups keep failing to confront these facts, and deal with them, the bodies of young girls will keep piling up.

Murdering Free Speech

Lars Hedegaard: Demon Truth-Teller Of Denmark

This world is full of contrasts, and we see these all too often when it comes to the prevailing attitudes of Western authorities towards Islam, versus the realities of Islam itself.

Yesterday, Danish writer and cartoonist Lars Hedegaard was found guilty of hate speech and "racist statements" after he spoke during a 2009 interview about the intra-familial violence often experienced by women and girls in the Muslim world. Obviously, he was not insinuating that every Muslim woman in the world is being attacked, raped or killed by their own families. What he was talking about was the depravity of a general culture that treats women as possessions of men, disobedient and rebellious, who can be beaten by men when they step out of line and whose murder often carries no penalty under Islamic law.

Hedegaaard's discussion of this was deemed a crime by a Danish court.

Also yesterday, it was reported that a man went to suburban Detroit and fatally shot his 20-year-old stepdaughter in the head because she left Minnesota to live with her father and was not adhering to Muslim customs.

Jessica Mokdad now joins the sad ranks of Aqsa Parvez, Amina and Sarah Said, Noor Faleh Almaleki, Sandeela Kanwal, and several other Muslim girls who have in just the past few years been murdered in honour killings - not in some deprived part of the Middle East, but in the United States of America.

Lars Hedegaard will be fined approximately £600 for noticing this.

Shame on Denmark.