Abstract

Honor Crimes

This study revolves around assailing the soul to inflict death, or something less in pretense of protecting honor and defending it, a false belief prevails in lots of societies that such crimes are connected to religion, and are, therefore, protected by it; the truth that it is connected to social conceptions, not related to religion.

This study emphasizes that the Islamic jurisprudence forbids these crimes in any shape and form, and harshens the punishment on it due to the great amount of injustice it inflicts, and not abiding to the ruling institutes, nor paying it proper respect because the Islamic is a institutional country, integrated and independent, and criminalization happens within regulation and conclusive juridical decisions, authorities enforce the rules , Islam didn't give individuals the jurisdiction of issuing juridical decisions, and enforcing it personally away from the state and its authorities; as it is the case of the crimes of honor, and honor is promoted with ethics, and avoidance of lying, rumors, media and psychological wars, in addition to reactivating decrees that hence reserve the honor through the variant institutes of the Islamic state.