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The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the murder of K. K. by her relatives in Khan Yunis refugee camp on Friday, 23 March 2012, on the ground of the so-called family honor. PCHR calls for bringing the perpetrators before justice, and taking necessary legal steps to stop such crimes.
According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 21:00 on Thursday, 22 March 2012, K. K., 22, from Khan Yunis refugee camp, was admitted into Nasser Hospital in a very critical condition because of having had a poisonous material, allegedly when she attempted suicide. She was placed in the intensive care unit and her condition relatively improved. At approximately 01:30 on Friday, 23 March 2012, a relative of her arrived at the intensive care unit. The doctor on duty informed him that her condition improved. The relative pointed a pistol attempting to kill her. When the doctor and a nurse attempted to stop him, he threatened to shoot them. Soon after, he shot the woman in the head, and she immediately died. The murderer turned himself in to the police.
According to police sources, the suspect and one of the victims brothers, have been detained, and investigations are ongoing.
PCHR expresses utmost concern over this crime, and calls for taking necessary measures to stop such crimes. The year 2011 witnessed a positive development with regard to efforts to stop violence against women, especially murdered motivated by family honor. On 15 May 2011, President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree with the power of law annulling leniency in sentences against perpetrators of murders related to family honor.
PCHR hopes that this decree would be a step towards the elimination of these crimes, as those who commit these crimes enjoyed the immunity granted to them through the issuing of eased sentences against them (maximum of 24 months imprisonment). As a result, this phenomenon has been prevalent in the Palestinian society and has resulted in opening the door for undermining the principle of the rule of law.
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Winston Churchill...
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
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