Women get stabbed to death for much less. The post-mortem virginity tests on the bodies of honour crime victims are just another kind of violation, methinks. It shouldn’t matter if a woman was having an affair or not. Her precious life was deemed worthless, and that’s the only thing that matters. Jordanian society is lopsidedContinue reading “In a society where married men feel free to hit on young girls…”
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Late-Term Abortion, Honour Crime…
Please read this powerful account on a late-term abortion from a guest-blogger at bastad.logic. Also, check out my review of Rana Husseini’s Murder in the Name of Honour on Feministe. OK, since all of that was really intense, here’s something to bring a semblance of balance to the Force: (It gets funnier and funnier asContinue reading “Late-Term Abortion, Honour Crime…”
Yet another father murdering his daughter… and getting her siblings to join in
Jordan Times story on latest honour killing. A girl tortured and beaten for wearing make-up. Sold out to her father by an obliging uncle. From the piece: Every single member of the Cabinet and every single senior official and every single journalist, judge, lawyer, activist and citizen who isn’t doing something to stop this “horrorContinue reading “Yet another father murdering his daughter… and getting her siblings to join in”
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