How could this happen? Fadima Sahindal, 26, was killed by her father in Sweden on January 21, 2002. This murder was not the result of sudden insanity, a scuffle between two people or an accidental murder because of a father's 'excessive violence'. In cold blood using a pistol and another murder weapon, a father had been planning and looking for an opportunity to kill his daughter since 1998. It is shocking but true. Why? What had Fadima done? Her crime was nothing but behaving in an un-Islamic manner. She had killed no one, had robbed nobody and had not hurt or abused anyone or anything.

Unfortunately, Fadima was born in an Islamic family. The unfortunate Sarah, 15, and Pela, 19, were also victims of Islam and were killed under similar circumstances. Many are familiar with the deaths of

Fadima, Sarah and Pela in Sweden, but the death of thousands upon thousands of Fadimas behind closed doors in religious and Islam-ridden societies by their family members goes unreported. The enormity of the catastrophe of the killing of girls by Islamic families is a lot more than the few that are reported.

What is this belief, ideology, religion, culture and morality that turns a father into a professional murderer, who can take the life of his own daughter? Is it not the case that a child is most precious for her parents? How could one be so cruel to use a gun on one's own daughter?

It is true! One cannot say this is an act committed only by animals. Animals would not do this to their offspring. This can only be committed by Islamic beasts. This is what religion and Islam does to reason, feelings and human thought. Religion is a repulsive reflection of humanity's alienation. Religion is a dangerous, hidden weapon. This weapon has been busy killing for many centuries.

Read the Koran without any 'made up' interpretations. See if it will not invite you to kill your daughter, wife, child, foreigners and non-believers? Read the Koran; if you follow its call and believe in its values and direction and do what it preaches, will it not turn you into a dangerous and brainless beast that plans for three years to kill his daughter and commit such a horrendous crime? Performing Islamic law in the private and social domain is a dangerous and hidden weapon that no one will be arrested for its possession.

The reality is that the mind and affection of a father like Fadima's father has already been destroyed by the most dangerous of weapons, i.e. religion. Islam before anything else kills one's humanity, intelligence, reason and affection and leaves one as a savage and sick animal. The reality is that Islam killed Fadima, Sarah and Pela.

Islam must be deposed of. Humanity does not need such venom. Humanity does not need such murderous religious beliefs. If communists are anti-religion and anti-Islam, it is because they appreciate the destructive power of such a naked weapon and because of their deep humanity. Religion is the opium of the masses, a reflection of their alienation and venom that must be deposed.

By Soraya Shahabi

2002-01-22