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Pakistan: Honor Killings And Islam

Written byRezwan

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Posted 23 February 2009 23:52 GMT

Imam Zaid Shakir at GOATMILK: An intellectual playground reminds us that “the practice of honor killings has absolutely no sanction in the Qur’an, the Prophetic practice, or in the evolved systems of Islamic law.”

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