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Ujjal Dosanjh: Admit honour killings for what they are
June 16, 2010 – 12:23 pm
‘Political correctness prevents us from demanding that the cultural norms that justify such heinous practices as honour killings have no place anywhere in the world’By Ujjal Dosanjh
Nothing better describes the motivation for the dishonourable crime of honour killing than the words of Aqsa Parvez’s killer, her father: “My community will say you have not been able to control your daughter. This is my insult. She is making me naked.” The whole notion of “honour” is tied to male control of a female’s life, including her sexuality.
In 2000, the United Nations estimated that 5,000 women and girls are murdered every year in honour killings, a term that masks the brutality of the crime it describes. In some cases, women are even killed because they have been raped. While such murders are particularly prevalent in the countries of the Indian sub-continent, the Middle East and parts of Africa, as we are seeing, they also happen in the Western world. Read More
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