| DanaC |
05-07-2007 03:57 AM |
This is as much tribal/communal as it is religious. This is a cultural matter, whereby males of a community believe they have the absolute right of life and death over the women and girls of the community. She was not stoned to death because she loved a boy....but because that boy belonged to a different sect/community.
There are numerous cultures which subscribe to the idea of honour killings and not all of them claim religious sanction.
This of course makes it harder to tackle. Cultures which have taken thousands of years to evolve and have retained ancient elements through several religious epochs are as difficult to move as mountains.
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She was Kurd and he was Sunni Iraqi. I thought the Kurds were the good guys but apparently they're just the different guys
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None of them are the 'good guys' and none of them are the 'bad guys'. There are traditionalist bastards in every group and there are compassionate fathers too. Her own family did this to her.
As an aside on 'honour killings'....during the days leading up to partition in India, when communalist violence was at its height, men from moslem, sikh and hindu communities burned their own women in their homes to prevent them being kidnapped or dishonoured by the enemy. Locked them in barns and doused them with kerosene. Mothers, wives, daughters and sisters. It went across the faiths. We see this as a primarily moslem phenomenon these days, but the reality is that honour killing is a different thing to sharia law. Sharia law is based on the qu'ran, honour killing is much, much older and exists in places beyond the reach of the Prophet. |
