Honour and vengeance
Two headlines really called my attention today in one of our local newspaper:A Jordanian stabs his 20 years old daughter 30 times to death in revenge for his honour. Autopsy found the girl virgin.
Dr. Massouma Mubarak to Jordan in an official visit.
Dr. Mussouma Mubarak shaking hand with the Jordanian Minister of Planning, Mrs. Suhair Al Ali.
And I found myself asking when is this killing series going to stop in Arabic countries? And now that we have a woman-minister, can she do something to stop it?
I think this issue is more important than exchanging experts or planning cooperation between two or several countries. How can the Arabic countries ever advance if they still behave in a very ignorant and primitive way? Why don’t they fix their basic problems first?
Ignorance and useless traditions are basic problems in the Arabic World and unless they are solved you cannot expect much to be done. Who are they kidding?
Why don’t people react to these news? Is it becoming a daily event that people read but not really react to? When did racist killing start to be normal? Aren’t they commenting the thing that Islam came to forbid and consider as a sin? Killing girls for honor vengeance?
I wonder if it was a boy who dishonoured his family, would they kill him too? or cutting off his balls would be enough? That would cut down the rates of rapes for sure!
posted by Elegance @ 11:17 am
