Thanks very much, Joanna.
--- Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> It's the name given, especially by the perpetrators,
> to the murder of girls
> by family members for the "crime" of falling in love
> with young men of
> different racial and/or religious backgrounds. Even
> marrying legally
> according to the laws of their country of domicile
> does not necessarily
> render them safe. I daresay this happens all over
> the world, but to our
> shame there have been a spate of these killings in
> the UK lately. They're
> beginning to attract a lot of very high profile
> notice, once they're
> discovered. They are called honour killings, because
> the perpetrators say
> the girls have dishonoured their family name, and
> this stain of dishonur can
> only be washed clean with thier blood.
>
> The law has to be invoked of course, which sets up
> resentments. Education is
> the way forward, but it takes such a painfully long
> time.
>
> joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MC Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 9:06 PM
> Subject: Re: query
>
>
> > What _are_ "honor killings" an where are they
> > practiced?
> >
> > Candice
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I don't see how anyone could fail to see it.
> Though
> >> in truth these cases
> >> shame the very word "honour".
> >>
> >> joanna
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Frederick Pollack" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 6:48 PM
> >> Subject: query
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm curious if anyone does *not see that "Your
> >> Glance, Like a Clouded Moon"
> >> is about honor killings. Did extensive research
> >> (google "honor killings,
> >> UK"). Thinking of adding epigraph: "'Police are
> >> re-examining more than 100
> >> murders ...' - BBC". Don't want to use the
> phrase
> >> "honor killings";
> >> shouldn't need to.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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