Religion of “Bitch! I Kill You!”

The Jawa Report today has a story about the animals that practice Islam in the city of Basra. Basra was the uppity Shiite town in Southern Iraq that was tamed by the British in the Iraq war. And since the Brits have left, there have been over 125 honor killings of women and girls for bringing various levels of “shame” to their families. In fact, murdering women is so popular and widespread that you can hire a murderer in the local coffee shop for a hundred bucks.

From the Guardian here:

Authorities in the southern Iraqi city of Basra have admitted they are powerless to prevent ‘honour killings’ in the city following a 70 per cent increase in religious murders during the past year.

So far this year, 81 women in the city have been murdered for allegedly bringing shame on their families. Only five people have been convicted. During 2007 the Basra security committee recorded 47 ‘honour killings’ and three convictions.

An Iraqi lawyer, who requested anonymity, said that some fathers had started to hire professional hitmen to carry out ‘honour killings’ which were then covered as ‘sectarian murders’. He said: ‘The life of these women isn’t higher than $100. You can find a killer standing in any coffee shop of Basra, discussing prices of a life as if he was buying a piece of meat.’

Mariam Ayub Sattar, an activist in Basra, said that any woman caught speaking to a man in public who was not her husband or a relative was considered a prostitute and punished. A fortnight ago three women were burned with acid while walking through a market in Basra after stopping to speak to a male friend, Sattar said.

Who the hell keeps jars of acid on hand?  Muslims, I suppose, because you never know when you have to fry a bitch’s eyes out for peeking at a man from behind her veil.  After the US troops withdraw too, will the rest of Iraq take a giant step backwards in the way the women are treated?  Or is this just a Shiite problem?