- Religion is being used as an excuse
We all know that religion does not encourage humans to kill other humans. So one may ask what the underlying problem is in regards to the issue of honour killings and religion. Well to me they could be two reasons either they are ignorant of their own religious teachings and beliefs or they are simply using religion as an excuse.
- Religious leaders need to speak up
Going through certain websites i have easily been inspired and motivated to think that the only people who can make a difference in stopping this barbaric practice or even decrease the amount of deaths per year is the religious leaders.
Over the past years, many people such as the prime minister of Kurdistan urged religious leaders to come forward and address the issue of honour killings to the people. From one website it states the prime minister is "urging religious leaders to use their influential positions to spread a message of peace and tolerance in mosques...the prime minister said just as you have been pioneers in serving the religion of Islam, religious leaders should be pioneers of reform to serve our people." http://www.krg.org/articles/detail.asp?rnr=223&lngnr=12&smap=02010100&anr=19140
From another website i come across a influential figure who is trying to stop honour killings her name is Rana Husseini, she also "stresses that religious leaders should speak more openly about the issue and more men need to be involved in campaigning against the crimes." http://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/womens-rights/women-in-jordan/408-jordanian-journalist-lectures-on-exposing-honor-killings.html
It’s about time that the religious leaders of the world speak out and address these issues in the light of their own religion. They cannot just sit back and expect such a sensitive issue like honour killings to be resolved on its own. I personally believe religion is being used as an excuse, how long are we going to let such crimes happen.
Actually Islam DOES encourage the killing of people. Read the Qu'ran and more important, the Hadith. The Prophet was a warlord, he killed many. He had over 300 people beheaded in one day just because they were Jewish. When a religion encourages people to kill and assures them that dying while spilling the blood of the enemy is the surest way to paradise, it's pretty hard to make a change in things.
ReplyDeleteHello there, I do not agree with your opinion that Islam encourages the killing of people. God says in the Quran "if you kill one person unjustly as if you killed the whole humanity, and if you saved once person as if you saved the whole humanity"
ReplyDeleteI believe you need to study the history of Islam in much great detail and in a clear manner. It is against the killing of a human. The prophet was not a war lord, he didn't initiate any killings. He acted in self defence. You mentioned that he killed 300 Jews that was because they posed a danger to the rest of the community which consisted of other Jewish and Christian people. He was protecting the community from harm not just Muslims. Why didn't he kill the Christians and other Jewish people?