The media has been abuzz the past few weeks with different stories of women / ladies who have been shot, beaten, stoned or even murdered for the same crime. Their crime in their country is one that is taken for granted in other countries and isn't even considered a crime at all. Their crime was marrying the men they loved instead of marrying men that were chosen for them.
Last month in Pakistan, a woman by the name Farzana Iqbal was attacked and killed by her own family members for marrying the man she loved. The case drew international attention and was even condemned by the UN "because it happened in broad daylight" in the center of the city of Lahore. Makes me wonder if the time and the venue is the reason for the UN condemnation of the act or the very act itself is the reason the UN spoke against it.
An 18 year old woman Saba Maqsood, has survived being shot and thrown into a canal by her family and this is just weeks after the death of Farzana Iqbal. One would tend to wonder "since she has survived this dastardly act from her family, she can or should be presumed dead to her family, is she therefore free to go back home to her husband when she has fully recuperated without her former family interfering with her life considering that they have more or less killed her once already?
This so-called honor killings, has me wondering if it has it's roots in tradition or in Islam. Did the Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) actually prescribe the killing of daughters for the crime of loving and choosing a man to be their lawful husband?
Mind you, please note that this is not the same as adultery because the ladies or women involved in these issues actually marry the men of the own choosing, men that they know and love.
Does the Quran say that it is a sin for women to happy?
Does the Quran forbid women from marrying the men that they love?
Does the Quran forbid women from being happy marrying the man the love?
It seems to be, that if it does then the Quran and the Prophet (pbuh) would be accused of hypocrisy because the Prophet (pbuh) married the wife of his late boss. She clearly chose him and not him her. She certainly could have married someone else.
I do not know if the people involved in this honor killings actually read the Quran but I strongly doubt that they do.