I agree it has to stop but how can we stop it?
We are dealing with a thousand years of Culture attitudes...
Originally posted by ImJaded
U meant the Middle East and the west ?
Not all Turkish people are Muslim, and by alll means I am not picking a fight or anything, I just didn't read that this was about Muslim women only, but Turkish Women.
The case has long since become a matter of public debate that extends well beyond the articles of criminal law. Germans want to know what's wrong with a country that has seen
an estimated 50 so-called honor killings in the past decade.
Why, people want to know, is Germany incapable of protecting its female citizens against violent attacks by Muslim husbands, fathers, or brothers?
The crime might be easier to digest if it had been an archaic anomaly, but five other Muslim women have been murdered in Berlin during the past four months by their husbands or partners for besmirching the family's Muslim honor. Two of them were stabbed to death in front of their young children, one was shot, one strangled and a fifth drowned. It seems hard to fathom, but in the middle of democratic Western Europe -- in Germany, a nation where pacifism is almost a universal mantra -- murderous macho patriotism not only exists but also appears to be thriving. It may even be Germany's liberalism -- and its post World War II fear of criticizing minority cultures -- that has encouraged ultra-religious families to settle here.
Originally posted by ImJaded
Who are we to tell them it is wrong ?
Originally posted by ImJaded
U meant the Middle East and the west didn't U Grady ?
Not all Turkish people are Muslim, and by alll means I am not picking a fight or anything, I just didn't read that this was about Muslim women only, but Turkish Women. One does not necessarily mean the other.
Just wanted to point that out. Is that how alot of people read this ? Cause if so this is starting to scare me![]()
Foul play suspected in "ethnic women´s" disappearance
Awareness of honour slayings and other crimes against young immigrant women was raised in September, when an 18-year-old Pakistani girl named Ghazala Abbas was murdered in broad daylight by her older brother a day after she married a young Afghani man, whom her family did not approve of.
Many of the girl's relatives have been arrested for ordering, planning, and assisting in her slaying in order to protect the family's honour.