Still Looking For Any Honor
I know, I’ve written about it before and I’ll probably write about it again. How many times can these evil Muslim bastards run around killing their children and declare it an “honor killing”? Here we go again.
In Istanbul, the father of 26-year old Ahmet Yildiz traveled 600 miles in order to put 5 bullets into his son. Why? Because Yildiz chose to be honest about his sexuality and live as a gay man. This has been claimed to be the first case of honor killing to come to light publically in Turkey, but it almost certainly isn’t the first that has ever happened. Even though dozens of neighbors witnessed the shooting, all of them have refused to come forward and the father, Yahya Yildiz, is thought to be hiding out in the mountains of northern Iraq. He’s being tried in absentia but prosecutors are finding it hard to get witnesses. Finally, a single brave woman, Ummuhan Darama, has stepped forward and is willing to testify.
Ahmet was a straight-A student, studying to be a teacher and was tutoring other students in order to make extra money and live independently of his wealthy, but highly-religious family. However, being gay and worse, being open of it was the ultimate insult to his father’s honor. “Ahmet’s father had warned him to return to their village and to see a doctor and imam in order to cure him of his homosexuality and get married, but Ahmet refused,” cousin Ahmet Kaya said. “Ahmet loved his family more than anything else and he was tortured about disappointing them. But in the end, he decided to be who he was.”
Even though such honor killings are not typically publically reported, experts suspect that on average, one honor killing happens in Istanbul per week. The United Nations places the number of people killed worldwide by these shameful murders at 5,000. While most honor killings are still committed against women, there have been an increasing number of gay male killings of late as more gay men come out of the closet and are honest about who they are. “Until now, gay honor killings have been invisible because homosexuality is taboo,” said Mazhar Bagli, a sociologist who studies honor killings at Dicle University in Diyarbakir.
Perhaps the biggest roadblock to justice in this and other similar cases is that, as Ms. Darama put it, “The police and local religious officials are trying to protect the killer because they think homosexuality is a sin. But in Islam killing is an even bigger sin, and no one but Allah has the right to decide between life and death. Ahmet was a nice, gentle boy and he didn’t deserve to die.”
Some gay Muslims are simply running away from the Middle East to avoid their family’s wrath. Didar Erdal, a 23-year old gay man recently left Turkey for the Netherlands in hopes his family would not follow him. Even though his father ordered him to come home and let the tribal elders decide what must be done, Erdal knows what that means. “I know all too well,” Mr. Erdal said, “what the tradition demands must happen to me.”
And thus, we still have a bunch of primitive savages committing murder in the name of an imaginary man in the sky and largely getting away with it. If this one doesn’t belong in the Religious Horror Show, I don’t know what does.
One Comment to “Still Looking For Any Honor”
Bu-bu-but – religion is so good for people! It inspires them to do good deeds and stuff like that.
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