My classmates today brought in a documentary on honour. But its not like any documentary ive seen that involves honour. The movie is called "Killing in The Name of Honour" it chronicles a Turkey reporter who exposes a very sadistic, evil, tyrannic, and just plain brutal and disgusting way of how women are bring killed!!!!! Let me right that again killed!!! All in the name of honour. So how are these women being killed in the name of honour? In Turkey women are killed so that families can regain or keep their honour in society. Fathers, are killing their daughters and wifes to regain honor in the community. Sons are killing their mother for the same exact reason. Its a sickening act, unfortunately the victims are all women because in the Turkey only women can disgrace their family, men can do no harm. In many cases these men are being forced to accomplish these disgusting acts, just to not look "bad" or "dishonored" around their community and society. So what is the consequences to murdering women in the family? You get time in prison for what it seem the government are trying to raise the amount of years and harsher punishment for all these vile acts. It has gotten so critical that men in the family force and try to convince these women to commit suicide just so that they dont receive any prison time at all!!! Suicide is increasing (for women) in Turkey from 44 to 2006, to 85 in 2007. So why is suicide increasing in Turkey? Simple, more men forcing these women to commit suicide just to obtain more honour!!! More honour!!! That is disgusting.
You can make the case that suicide is not connected to killin in the name of honour, but for such a religious country who holds religion higher than pretty much everything. The Islam religion and their bible the Qur'an life and living are regarded as the highest gift giving my Allah (God) their is a passage in the Qur'an and i quote "And do not kill yourselves. Surely, Allaah is Most merciful to you. And whoever commits that through aggression and injustice, We shall cast him into the Fire" [al-Nisa' 4:29-30]. Yes suicide does happen in every culture and religion, but to think that 85 women committed suicide in 2007 is staggering, why? The key word is "women".. How many men are committing suicide? Far less than women. This killing in the name of honour is vile, disgusting, unethical, and inhumane. The Turkish government has to address these problems seriously and quickly because women deserve better, women deserve everything and anything men have and more, and it pains and bothers me that this is happening in such a culture...
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