Wash Sins Away with Wudu!

You know, if doing wudu was a sure fired way of cleansing oneself from sin then I would be a wali of Allah. No doubt about it. According to Robert Spencer, who was on the Michael Savage radio show, Muslims like to kill people, especially their shameful daughters, for reasons of purity.

He replied to a question Savage asked him regarding what Islamic rules there are that are out there that call for honor killings. Spencer replied, roughly, with the following: "Well, I think that the fundamental attitude comes from the purity emphasis, and the shame honor emphasis in Muslim culture. For example, the fact that in Islam there is no idea of the confession or being forgiven of ones sins before the end of one's life rather there is just purification you make various ablutions and wash after sin has been committed, but you can never be sure that Allah will forgive you."

Wash after the sin has been committed? This is just too easy to pass up that I have to point out the obvious stupidity of such a statement.

So if a Muslim kills his mother and father, just because he got mad let's say, then all that Muslim has to do is wash up and he or she will be fine, forgiven by God, sin free??? Really?

That's even easier than making a confession at church, wouldn't you say Robert? I mean, think of the gas you would waste for every time you had to go run down to the church to be forgiven.

In all seriousness, I hope I misheard Mr. Spencer's brilliant analysis. The aspect of Savage's show that I found rather humorous was the idea they were promoting that "honor killings" are becoming more and more common in the U.S. The U.N. estimates roughly 5,000 or so the past year... in the whole world. There have been two incidents that have made national headlines in the U.S. related to the notion of honor killing. The Said sisters in Texas and Aqsa Parvez in Canada. May Allah have mercy upon all three of them. So... one was in the United States.

(Crickets)

As far as I know the only case of an honor killing occurring in the U.S. was the murder of the Said sisters. But there are Spencer and Savage - dumb and dumber - whipping up the crowd, telling anyone who will listen to their crap that honor killings are on the rise in the U.S. Well, I guess it is on the rise technically since the last count of honor killings in the U.S. totaled zero.

Anyway, the Prophet, peace and prayers be upon him, told his Companions not to kill their daughters when they were born because they were ashamed that they did not have a son so I would imagine that killing your daughter because she wasn't wearing a hijab would also be similarly looked down upon. But that's just me. Allah knows best.