The practice of honor killing is when a female member disobeys or shames the family and either gets strangled or stoned to death. This practice is common amongst the Islamic faith. The most recent honor killing happened last week. A women was strangled and cremated by her mother and father. Their reason for this honor killing is because their daughter has disobeyed her parent's wishes and married the man they did not approve of. The parents were late arrested by the police.
I don't know if it hits you as hard as it hit me that parents would kill there child for this kind of matter. She married the guy already and they must be in love so why couldn't her parents just let them be happy?!. I mean even if you don't agree and decides to cut off all connections with them its fine too...but killing?! isn't it a little bit too extreme. However, this kind of practice is quite common....which hits me even harder because that means these people actually believes that killing in honor is okay. Killing is not okay!! It's totally against human rights. PLus this girls is 22 she knows what she wants and she can decide for herself now. I'm very upset about this news...
I know the faith itself is about peace and tolerance at its basis but honor killing is simply not acceptable. Sure its not a rule or saying in the Qur'an but it's quite common amongst the Islamic faith....You can say nothing is wrong with this religion cause its not directly related but....i don't know ....what do you think?
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I agree. Honour killing sounds very violent and very unethical. What I don't understand is why parents would do this to their daughter. Is their daughter worth less than their pride? Don't they love their daughter more? Shouldn't they wish for their daughter's happiness and respect her choices instead of ordering her to marry a man she would never love? I don't understand why people value pride to an extreme.
- Vivian Cheng
Oh my! This is terrible. I agree that we need to be respectful of other peoples' beliefs, but a line needs to be drawn somewhere.
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