What are some examples that family is more important that honor?
hannaaahhh asked:
I have a essay to write on “what is more important family/relationships or honor” and I think a persons family is more important because at the end of the day, your family will always be there for you..but I need some solid facts. like an example from a movie, poem, anything. Im kinda stuck! Any answers welcome(=
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I have a essay to write on “what is more important family/relationships or honor” and I think a persons family is more important because at the end of the day, your family will always be there for you..but I need some solid facts. like an example from a movie, poem, anything. Im kinda stuck! Any answers welcome(=
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gayle g:
Here is a news story from July 18th
What a horrible situation that is going on in our world today.
This is the being - for the full story = I have added the web site in the source section. I suggest you read it - it isn’t very long - but it sure does hit your target question.
Murder for the Sake of Honor
By George Thomas
CBN News Senior Reporter
July 17, 2008
CBNNews.com - AMMAN, Jordan - Every year 5,000 women are murdered in so-called ‘honor killings’ where members of a family kill one of their own women, like a mother or a sister because they believe her actions have shamed the family.
Rana Husseini says that honor is restored only when the woman is dead. Husseini has documented the practice of honor killings as a reporter for The Times of Jordan.
“Living in a patriarchal society, women somehow tend to be always blamed,” said Hussein. “Her family holds her responsible for their reputation and so the minute this woman does something wrong they see no solution but to kill her. For them blood cleanses honor.”
Stoned for Love
On April 7, 2007, just outside Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, 17-year-old Du’a Khalil Aswad was dragged by a group of relatives, including her brother and uncle, into the village square.
Hundreds of townspeople watched as she was stripped, kicked and repeatedly stoned. Her gruesome killing was caught on a video cell phone.
Aswad’s crime: She was in love with a young man and members of her family disapproved.
Thousands of Women killed for Family ‘Honor’
Each year, hundreds, if not thousands, of people worldwide are shot, stabbed, strangled, stoned or burned to death. And almost always the victim is a woman accused of tarnishing her family’s honor.
“Families decide to kill for these reasons: rumors, suspicion, rape, if a woman is ***** sometimes they blame her for the rape; ****** also they might kill her,”Choosing her own man to get married to, talking to a man, losing her virginity, becoming pregnant out of wedlock,” Husseini told CBN News from her office in downtown Amman.
Husseini is now on a mission to end the silence surrounding this horrific practice.
“I’m here to speak in the name of these women who have no voices,” Hussein said as she glanced through the hundreds of articles she’d written over the years.
Her upcoming book, Murder in the Name of Honor documents the rise of honor crimes worldwide.
“The typical honor killer usually is the brother and sometimes, some families are very knowledgeable about the law, sometimes they choose minors to commit the crime,” she said. “Because in such crimes they get away with very lenient sentences. It could range from three months to two years.”
Crimes of Honor
It’s difficult to get precise numbers, but the United Nations estimates that worldwide at least 13 people are killed a day - at least 5,000 a year.
And while the majority of these crimes occur in Arab and Muslim countries, a growing number take place in immigrant communities in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere.
The crime of honor killings is not just limited to Muslim communities in the Middle East. According to Husseini, Christian families are also taking part in this horrific crime.
“The proof is that in Jordan, I’ve covered several cases lets say five or six cases of Christian women who were killed by their families because they tarnished their family’s honor,” said Husseini.
July 25, 2008, 7:38 pmAmanda B:
If you’re going with family/relationships are more important, check out the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes”. The two women are sisters-in-law who covered one another even when one of them got into trouble with the law for murder.
The book Puddin’head Wilson by Mark Twain is about how a slave had a baby by her master at the same time the master and his wife had a baby. The wife died and the slave became the sole caretaker of both babies. The slave decided she wanted her natural child to have a good life and not be doomed to slavery, so she switched the two. (The master was white, and the slave was a very fair skinned black woman). Her natural child grew up being treated well as a white man, whereas the other child grew up as a slave.
July 27, 2008, 10:37 pm