Concept of honor and respect

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Re: Concept of honor and respect

It does differ greatly from honor killing:

  1. In honor killing, there is no fair trial, while in the punishment for adultery, there is a fair trial.

  2. Honor killing is not permitted by the Quran, since you can't kill someone on a whim. Quran, surprisingly, is pretty silent on the punishment for adultery, since there is no verse that says one should be stoned if committed adultery. The punishment for adultery is perscribed in hadith. If anyone still has any legit information that can prove to me that the Quran perscribes the death punishment for adultery, then please put it forth.

  3. Honor killings are done for more than just adultery. If you see your sister or wife or whoever talking to someone of the opposite sex, you could kill her and that would still be an honor killing. Adultery punishment is for adultery alone.

  4. You need 4 witnesses to see adultery taking place, according to Sunnah tradition, before you can put forth a case to the courts on your spouse. In honor killing, no witnesses are necessary. You as a male, have authority, in honor killing culture, to claim that you know there is hanky panky going on based on minimal evidence or even no evidence at all.

  5. Because of the 4 witnesses deal, ideally, you wouldn't see very many executions for adultery taking place in a true Islamically run state. Its hard to get 4 witnesses, since people cheat in secret, and they do a darn good job of it, usually. However, you see honor killings happening left and right, which matches hte theoretical prediction of how frequent honor killings would be given the theoretical concept of it.

  6. Honor killings can be perscribed for a woman being seen talking to a man. So honor killings can be quite unIslamic, because they punish for something that is perfectly Islamic in the first place. However, adultery punishments are only for adultery, which is an Islamic crime, so the punishment is also an Islamic one.

There is a big difference between the two, I hope I made that clear and I hope I extensively covered the differences.

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