Dec. 31, 2005
 
COMMENTARY: Islamic ‘Honor’ Killings: Another Example of Islam’s Death Cult Status
 
By David M. Kinchen
Editor, Huntington News Network
 
Hinton, WV (HNN) ---All the liberals are ranting about Bush lying and spying – not necessarily in that order – but where is the outrage from my left-leaning friends about the so-called Muslim honor killings, exemplified by a particularly horrific recent example in Pakistan.
 
West Virginia’s equivalent of Pravda in the former Soviet Union, the Charleston Gazette, played the story on the front page of the Thursday, Dec. 29, 2005 edition, albeit below the fold. Pakistani authorities professed to be “shocked” at the murders committed by 40-year-old laborer Nazir Ahmed. He slit the throats of his three young daughters and his 25-year-old stepdaughter while his wife looked in frozen horror. In captivity, he says his only regret is he didn’t kill the lover of his stepdaughter!
 
The AP story under the byline of Khalid Tanveer noted that “Hundreds of girls and women are murdered by male relatives in this conservative Islamic nation, and rights groups said…such ‘honor killings’ willl stop only when authorities get serious about punishing perpetrators.”
 
The line about Pakistan being “shocked” reminds me of the classic line of Captain Renault, played by Claude Rains, in “Casablanca,” where he is “shocked, shocked “ to find gambling going on in WWII Casablanca, French Morocco. He then proceeds to collect his winnings.
 
Meanwhile, in Italy, distinguished journalist Oriana Fallaci is on trial for telling the truth about the real Islam, a misogynistic, hate-filled cult. If there are peaceful Muslims, they’re awfully silent. They’re probably afraid of having their throats slid by Islam’s equivalent of the “executioners” of Nazi Germany.
 
The 75-year-old cancer sufferer first faced charges in 2002 in France – a hotbed of anti-Semitism – that her book The Rage and the Pride promoted “racism,” the plaintiffs apparently unaware, according to the account in FrontPageMagazine.com that “Muslim” is not a racial designation. (Fallaci supported Operation Iraqi Freedom to give Arabs the gift of self-determination.)
 
According to the web magazine: “Two years later, she learned she would face similar charges in her native Italy, over the same book. In April 2004, an Italian leftist judge allowed the Muslim-instigated lawsuit to go forward on the grounds that her works were “without doubt offensive to Islam and to those who practice that religious faith.” However, FrontPage Magazine columnist Robert Spencer has examined the allegedly “offensive” passages that “defame Islam” – 18 in all – and found each one undeniably rooted in Islamic theology and history.”
 
Again from the web magazine: “The plaintiff, Adel Smith, president of the Muslim Union of Italy, could as easily be charged by the loose anti-religious discrimination statute that has snared Fallaci. He calls on fellow believers in the Religion of Peace to ‘eliminate’ and ‘die with Fallaci.’ He also refers to Christianity as a ‘criminal association’ and has demeaned the Crucifix as a ‘miniature cadaver.’”
 
At the end of the year, I’m shocked to find that France and Italy, while giving a pass to radical IslamoFascists in their midst, are attacking a brave woman for telling the truth about a religion that desperately needs to undergo a reformation. Frankly, I don’t think that would do much good, as long as hate, rather than love, is the basis for Islam. Forcing people to join your cult and denying freedom of choice to stay or leave, treating women and blacks like third-class citizens is no way to run a world-class religion. Liberals, progressives, where is your outrage?