Honour killings, are they justified? by Arabian Oud {R}

Is it justified to kill a man or a woman because we think they are tainting our family's name? Is it ok for a father or a brother to kill his sister and daughter. Ok for them to beat her, ok for them to beat the man who truely loves a woman. The list is endless and yet the reasons are never justified, call it ignorance or plain 'Jahiliya', people have killed innocent souls within their own families to save their so called ' family name' and save it from getting ruined. There have been numerous cases in the UK, this has become so common now, a couple were sentenced to prison, after they were found guilty of killing their daughter. Her body was found in the forest and she was possibly poisoned. Killing an innocent soul is 'Haram', forbidden, taboo. I never read in any Islamic book saying it's ok to kill someone who's pure innocent. A father killed his daughter, when he saw her talk to a boy, and then he automatically assumes, he is her boyfriend, especially in the UK. This is plain ignorance, how can one just jump to a conclusion without asking.

One of my upcoming projects is an investigative report on honour killings and the measures required to stop this bloodshed of innocent lives. It's like proper butchering humans because you can't stand the fact they are not complying with your principles.

But what I want to know before I begin to research, do you think it's okay to kill someone in the name of honour killing?

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