Posted on 07/29/2009 8:48:59 AM PDT by thinking
Following news of the arrest last week of Mohammad Shafia, his wife, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, and their 18-year old son, Hamed, for the alleged murder of four female family members, a case exhibiting several earmarks of a culturally motivated crime, I steeled myself for the usual media scramble to deplore all acts of “domestic violence.....”
Liberals deliberately conflate domestic violence with honour killing because they feel that making any distinction would “racialize” the crimes, indicting a whole culture. But in order to avoid offending the minority communities in which honour killings occur, they must then “genderize” the practice by force-fitting it into the category of all male-on-female domestic violence......
Part of the problem lies in the phrase “domestic violence,” which seems to encompass any violence that occurs in a household. And, unfortunately, it is received wisdom in our highly feminized society to believe that domestic violence, like honour killing, is a one-way street: male on female.....
For greater clarity around domestic violence in Canada, we should use the term Inter Partner Violence (IPV), now favoured by many academics in this field.....
Murdering women, especially their own loved ones, is anathema to healthy Western men. Unlike honour killings, such crimes are universally condemned.....
We must understand above all that IPV and honour killings represent different stakes for society. IPV is not sociologically catchy: Healthy people do not take their intimate relationship cues from the pathological amongst them. Honour killing, on the other hand, is a form of ideological terrorism linked to a particular religious and cultural outlook, an implied threat to other women of what can happen if they don’t toe the party line and an emboldening “inspiration” to their male cultural peers.....
(Excerpt) Read more at network.nationalpost.com ...
Celebrate perversity.
“Inter-Partner Violence” isn’t a good term, either, since many “domestic” killings are of children, not sexual partners of the perpetrators. This is true both for the Islamic “honor” killings and the killings of children by their mothers’ boyfriends.
No kidding. How about calling it what it is - murder.
“How about calling it what it is - murder.”
Fancy names, re-definitions, and hair-splitting justifications simply cover up what it is - murder.
Good show, greatplains!
I wonder if the president is going to come out call these violent acts “stupid?”
“I wonder if the president is going to come out call these violent acts “stupid?””
I just collapsed from holding my breath.
We must be sensitive to other cultures and moralities. See, killing members of your own family isn’t REALLY murder if they deserve it. /s
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