U.S.: IoP -- Honor rooted in dishonor stands

A Turkish immigrant who is charged with killing his wife and critically injuring his two daughters in their Scottsville townhouse allegedly claimed he acted as a matter of honor.

Ismail Peltek, who was indicted Friday on charges of second-degree murder in the April 15 slaying of his wife, Hatice Peltek, claimed he attacked his wife and daughters after learning that his brother had molested his wife and his 22-year-old daughter, according to court documents.

Peltek, 41, said he attacked his 4-year-old daughter because she had been “sullied” by a gynecological exam.

”I was concerned that my family’s honor was taken,” he allegedly told investigators.
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His 39-year-old wife died after being stabbed repeatedly and bludgeoned on the head with a hammer.

His daughters suffered fractured skulls from hammer blows.

”If you had the opportunity to kill the family again, would you?” he was asked by Rochester police Officer Emre Arican, who was brought in to help investigators because he speaks Turkish.

”My female family, yes. My male family, no,” Peltek allegedly replied.

After reading this, I thank God for Western civilization which teaches men to protect, rather than attack, women.

What honor is this male talking about? In the Mid East and related cultures, honor is a rotten corpse which reeks to high heaven. What kind of honor is it when a culture teaches that it's acceptable to brutalize and savage the weak; that women should not be protected against the depredations of predators?

It is no honor; instead, it is the corruption of egotistical and weak male pride which sees woman as the source of all evil and blames her for every bad thing that happens to her.

Neither Peltek nor his brother are men, by the Western standard of manhood. His brother knew what would happen to the females once his molestation of them was discovered; yet, he violated the bonds of family, decency, and honor and raped not just his sister in law, but also his niece. He thought he could do it and get away with it because his culture blames the woman who is raped and not the rapist.

Instead of defending his wife and daughter, and beating the stuffing out of his brother before turning him over to the law, Peltek, that great "honorable" hero from a corrupt culture, turns a hammer and knife on his wife. Then, he hammers his daughters, the youngest of which committed the grievous "sin" of submitting to a gynaecological exam -- no doubt to verify that her "honorable" uncle had not molested her too.

What kind of culture is that? Only a corrupt and sick one which breeds a corrupt and rotten dishonor vainly masquerading as honor. What kind of honor does Peltek defend? Only an honor that rooted in dishonor stands.