Imagine a world where a parent would stab their daughter to death for dating someone of another faith. Sadly, that world does exist and its been smuggled into Australia. In 2021, in a failed honour killing attempt, a father proceeded to stab his daughter to death with a knife in an Adelaide car park. Her crime? She dated a Christian man. While miraculously surviving, the victim suffered ‘a perforated kidney, lacerated liver, and internal bleeding’ because of the stabbing. Decades of delusional, reckless and ill thought out multiculturalism policies have invited this archaic malevolence whose lifeblood feeds of everything anti-Western.
We must not mince words here. Honour killings are a modern form of human sacrifice.
The victim, a Muslim woman, had brought shame and dishonour on her parents for dating a Christian man, and the only way to relieve this was to murder her. The victim’s father felt he could act as judge, jury, and executioner simply because his daughter wanted to date someone of another faith instead of being forced into an arranged marriage.
Decades of multiculturalism in the West have asserted that many cultures and ethnicities can co-exist and live in peace together in a coherent, civilised, and just society, but we’ve learned that Islam and Hinduism sometimes have very anti-Western ideas, customs, and traditions. Still, Australia and other Western nations have accepted tens of thousands of immigrants from these backgrounds. On the surface,many cultures can live peacefully with each other until they don’t. And, when they clash, they clash in a disastrous way. Dealing with this very complex cultural and religious baggage from places that are worlds away from the West is extremely difficult, if not impossible. Peace is possible, but when you forsake cultural trip wires, then catastrophe erupts.
Australia’s law enforcement agencies are no strangers to dealing with the cultural and religious baggage of these religions, too.
In 2019-20, the Australian Federal police estimated that there were 92 cases of forced marriages and 51% of these individuals were underage. The AFP have also reported a steady rise in forced marriages in Australia, cases have steadily risen from 2013 to present.
Apologists for multiculturalism will argue that most Hindus and Muslims live in peace and are peacefully living in the West. This may be true until it isn’t. In a BBC poll conducted after the Charlie Hebdo attack, a staggering 27% of British Muslims said they supported the attack. That is astounding. In the UK alone, there were over 7,000 reports of ‘honour-based violence’ between 2011 and 2016. Each year in Britain, there are about 12–15 honour killings. So what does all this mean? Well, clearly, the West has a problem. It means that the people who commit these crimes live under the alias of being Westerners. Until someone inflicts shame and dishonour, the moral injury sustained is so intolerable that murder is then justifiable. But they are wrong, and blood should not have to be spilt for us to acknowledge that we have a serious problem.
Though widely dismissed, there are grains of truth to Samuel Huntington’s clash of civilisations thesis. While Huntington reduced all future conflicts to a ‘clash of cultures’ he ignored other significant factors that lead to conflict. But he was partially right, too. When you have a cultural admixture in the West, you also have a recipe for conflicts in worldviews. The West assumes that human life is priceless, while the Eastern cultures believe that there is a price to human life. The Western psyche assumes a belief in human dignity and individualism. Conversely, the Eastern psyche values the group over the individual. And from these two streams flow very different conclusions about how life should be lived. One is a Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman reservoir of thought that leads us to universal human rights, human dignity, and equality before the law. And the other, to a cesspit of irrational thinking, bloodthirsty vengeance, child grooming, sexual exploitation, and human sacrifice, all justified in the name of dishonour, reputation obsession, culture, and tradition.
These cultural clashes play out in the courtroom too, where judges have to assess culturally and religiously complex cases.
Australian Judge Jim Spigelmen warned us of this, he stated “There are important ethnic, racial and religious minorities in Australia who come from nations with sexist traditions…
The entire notion of honour killings in the name of redressing shame is patently one of the most vile, sadistic, and malevolent vestiges of Hindu and Islamic cultures that have slithered their way into Western countries and into the misguided coils of multiculturalism. Not every culture believes in universal human dignity and peace. Western governments are to blame for this, and our sovereignty as a cultural entity is at stake. The Hindu and Muslim religions have updated very little of their religious hardware for thousands of years, so why are we so surprised when honour killings occur? In the Aztec empire of Mexico, human sacrifice was a dominant religious custom, the West will go down as one of the few, if not only, civilisations that tacitly facilitates the practice of human sacrifice despite its own moral opposition to it. Before we escape our own contradictions, we must first admit them.
