Silence over 'honor killing' stuns Islam critic
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 7/15/2008 4:00:00 AM
Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, recently wrote an article in Frontpage Magazine about the honor killing in Clayton County, Georgia. Police said Chaudhry Rashid, a Pakistani immigrant, claimed he strangled his daughter, Sandeela Kanwal, in order to restore his family's honor. Rashid believed his daughter had sullied the family name by planning to divorce her husband to whom she had been given in an arranged marriage.
Spencer contends Americans must understand that this crime is the direct result of political correctness and a failure to confront the ugly realities of Islam. "We've let people into the country who believe it is justified for them to kill their daughters if they've sullied the honor of their family," he asserts. "And nobody is even facing the problem. Everybody is making excuses for it and saying it's not an Islamic problem, so the Islamic roots of it are unchallenged," argues Spencer.
He believes American liberals are more concerned about fundamentalist Christians. "Feminists seem to be more concerned about preserving their right to an abortion than about people who are doing things that are much more threatening to the equality of rights of women than anything the Christian fundamentalists are doing," Spencer adds.
Spencer states that no one will examine the question of unrestricted Islamic immigration in light of this problem.
