YouTube - 'Honour Killing' in Iraq

This is awful. Yet another example of the destructive power of religion, especially when it's mixed with ethnic nationalism and brutal chauvinism.

Click to view (warning: this is very shocking stuff)

Incidentally, exactly whose 'honour' is saved by this sort of behaviour. I was brought up to believe in acting honourably towards women… but that never meant murdering them with rocks. I'm also not sure how a woman can do anything to 'dishonour' a kinship group which would murder her with rocks for no reason.

Could a supporter of 'honour killings' please explain this?

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May 24, 2007 | Filed Under General 

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2 Responses to “YouTube - 'Honour Killing' in Iraq”

  1. Sophie on May 24th, 2007 10:17 pm

    I'm not a supporter, and can't stomach the images, but you might find some explanation about this and other acts against women in this text :

    http://thinkinggirl.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/nationalism-and-gender/

    Search for 'markers for the nation' to get to the (I think) relevant paragraph, as this 'honour killing' was perpetrated on a teenager accused of loving a man outside her "insular religious sect".

    http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20070521_iraqi_girls_stoning_death_causes_furor/

  2. Tom on May 25th, 2007 8:17 am

    Thanks for the links Sophie!

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