It seems that honor killing is a deep-seated tradition in Muslim countries. It is a kind of manacle that has been created by man to restrict the over all progress of women.
How often we have read the outcome of this weird custom, which has slaughtered numerous women in Muslim countries, Turkey, Iraq and Pakistan to name a few.
A similar threat has smacked the headlines in Israel. A seventeen-year-old girl, Doaa Fares has withdrawn her name from a beauty pageant because she was threatened with death, allegedly by two uncles and other men from her village who accused her of disgracing the family name with promiscuous behavior.
1. 17 Palestinian women were reported killed in honour crimes.
2. In Israel, seven women were similarly killed.
3. 13 girls and women were murdered in the name of ‘honour’ on International Women’s Day.
Bottom line
Many women are killed and buried in unmarked graves. Their very existence is removed from community and clan records. The fact that so many murders go unreported is indicative of the status of women and the role of culture in fundamentalist Islamic countries.
Women often accept their fate and expect to be executed, even when they are not at fault.
