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Showing posts with label Honour Killings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Honour Killings. Show all posts

Friday, 6 August 2021

Overcoming Misogyny

In a society steeped in patriarchy, females are at great risk of abuse and violence. 

Campaigns To Stop Violence Against Women Don't Impact Figures

In India, on average, 20 women are killed every day just for bringing in insufficient dowries. That figure disregards so called honour killings of wives, sisters and daughters etc.

Friday, 13 July 2018

Where Love Is A Sin

In the centre of Kabul many shop-fronts are decorated for Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, and its obviously not a Muslim festival.

Celebrating Love, Pre-Taliban Afghan Style
Celebrating Love, Afghan Style ....

This has caused problems in Muslim countries as we have seen in the past.

Friday, 30 May 2014

Murder Is Murder And Is Not An 'Honour'

A young woman who marries for love, and not to the ubiquitous 'First Cousin' that all Asians seem to marry by arrangement (I don't know enough about genetics, but surely that must end up being dangerous after a few generations, with everyone related directly to each other, even when they are 'First Cousins'?), is murdered by her father and male relatives.

Dis Honour Killings aka Bloody Murder
Dis Honour Killings aka Bloody Murder

Sadly not actually a rare event, with several thousand young women killed for the sake of 'family honour' in Pakistan alone, and many many more across the sub continent.

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