Religious Persecution and Honor-Based Violence | Marziyeh Amirizadeh

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0:00 and got confused. Praise God, now he's a Christian, but later he shared with me that since he got confused about what is the truth, he went to a mullah, clerics, to ask his questions about Islam. And he wrongly mentioned that his sister is a Christian. He told them that I'm becoming a Christian. So, the the cleric told him that go ahead and kill her. You can kill her and we will not charge you with anything. So, you can see through this story that for radical Muslims like the Islamic Republic regime, they encourage honor killing and they

0:47 are allowed to kill as they their sisters, their wives, their mothers for any kind of crimes and the government will, you know, pass that without uh capital punishment. Yeah, and it's one one of the things that's really concerning to me about the honor killings is, you know, we've already got the UK and I'm going to switch over and show you what I mean. The UK, you know, there've been many reports and some of the journalists out of the UK are saying, you know, they are arresting people for saying anything in their homes on social media, but yet

1:25 they're letting the Muslims get away with honor killings in the United Kingdom and Wales. And you can even see here where they say statistics on so-called honor-based abuse offenses. They're calling these abuse offenses and they're often times death, you know, so There are many cases I hear that fathers killed their daughters, brothers killed their sisters, husbands killed their wives just because being suspicious that they are having a relationship with another man or having a boyfriend for any kind of reasons they can kill. Like a father, they give total right to a father that they own

2:13 their daughters. So, if when they kill them, the government will not punish them like capital punishment. They just arrest them for maximum 2-3 years and they know that. That's why they are encouraged to do that, to kill women.