abu_rashid wrote on Feb 20
th, 2009 at 4:10am:
Quote:How do you explain the prevalence of "honour" killings in muslim countries?
What on earth do 'honour' killings have to do with this case??
If a Western man kills his wife cos she is going to divorce him, is that an 'honour' killing? Or is it only if a Muslim does it?
These claims are truly ridiculous.
A man killed his wife in a domestic dispute end of story (for the normal sane people), but for the Islamophobes noooo it's all about Islam isn't it. Every single thing any Muslim ever does is always about Islam isn't it?
You people aren't even worth debating with, really,
Don’t be a bigot, abu. According to Widney Brown, advocacy director for Human Rights Watch
"the practice goes across cultures and across religions".While precise figures do not exist for the perpetrators' cultural backgrounds, Diana Nammi of the UK's Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation have said:
"about two-thirds are Muslim. Yet they can also be Hindu, Sikh and even eastern European."Perhaps the prevalence of "honour" killing in muslim communities can be explained by origins of islam in Arabic culture.
Quote:Sharif Kanaana, professor of anthropology at Birzeit University states that honor killing is:
A complicated issue that cuts deep into the history of Arab society. .. What the men of the family, clan, or tribe seek control of in a patrilineal society is reproductive power. Women for the tribe were considered a factory for making men. The honour killing is not a means to control sexual power or behavior. What's behind it is the issue of fertility, or reproductive power.
Here is na exelent article about the phenomenon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killingBTW, "honour" killing in Pakistan goes under the name Karo Kari, which sounds something between hara kiri and cursed curry.