Indian village proud after double “honor killing”
Source: Reuters
With the recent ruling in California concerning gay marriage and the droves of people who are lining up on both sides of the issue seems a wee bit trivial once you hear this story about a pregnant heterosexual couple who were murdered by their own family because they were from the same village which is considered “incest” though they have no blood relation. [The pics are pretty graphic but tell the story of this tragedy.]
They punched and kicked her stomach as she called out for her sleeping boyfriend “Jassa”, 22-year-old Jasbir Singh, witnesses said. When he woke, both were dragged into waiting cars, driven away and strangled.
Their bodies, half-stripped, were laid out on the dirt outside Sunita’s father’s house for all to see, a sign that the family’s “honor” had been restored by her cold-blooded murder.
“From society’s point of view, this is a very good thing,” said 62-year-old farmer Balwan Arya, sitting smoking a hookah in the shade of a tree in a square with other elders from the village council or panchayat. “We have removed the blot.”
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It boggles the mind to think no one in the village has the moral fiber to speak out against this.
Ellen R. Sheeley, Author
“Reclaiming Honor in Jordan”
The STOP HONORCIDE! campaign was launched on Mother’s Day 2008. The goal of the campaign is to prosecute honorcides to the fullest extent of the law. We want honorcide to be classified as a hate crime and we advocate for every existing hate crime legislation to be amended to include honorcide.
http://www.reformislam.org/honorcide/
very very shameful to hear of it.