KILLED BY NORMS
A delicate report on a brutal subject, from Agence France-Presse:
British police will offer new identities to victims of so-called “honour” violence in a bid to combat the crime that kills one person a month.
London’s Metropolitan Police said up to a dozen people were murdered annually in honour violence - defined by the police as crimes committed in a bid to protect family or communal honour.
Officers estimate a further 500 are forcibly married and then raped, attacked or falsely imprisoned.
Do tell us, Agence France-Presse; who is responsible for these terrible acts?Typically, women are the victims of honour violence, which has been linked to certain interpretations of religious and cultural norms.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Which norms kill?
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Are we talking about Muslims here? Is the paper too politically correct to actually name the religion?
ReplyDeleteYes... that's the point. There is no such thing as "honour killings" in extreme Baptist circles or fundamentalist buddhists.In Australia we actually have some papers censoring police reports of suspects... the police might say they are looking for a man of medium build and middle Eastern appearance, but that is modified in the paper to just read "medium build."
ReplyDeleteIn the United States the media is mostly liberal. So they report things the way they want you to see them. But if you watch FoxNews or know which conservative radio shows to listen to you, you can get both sides.
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