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| India-Pakistan |
| Where honour equals shame |
| 2016-06-11 |
| [DAWN] ANY nation where some warped, twisted definition of honour sanctions the killing of a woman, even your own young daughter or sister, has demonstrably strayed away from every possible path of sanity. Yes, our honour whether in the name of faith, tribal code, traditions, culture and/or whatever other reason you can think of somehow mainly targets women. We burn alive, hack to death, subject to acid attacks predominantly women. A woman can’t exercise her free will. One rarely hears of a man being targeted thus. Where a constitutional forum, the Council of Islamic Ideology, routinely issues advisories about the status/role of women including instructing men in how to beat their wives ’correctly’, it would be naïve to expect anything better from many ordinary citizens blinded or bound by archaic codes, traditions and the sermons of the semi-literate preacher. |
| Posted by:Fred |