Syrian Journalist Lin Al-Atrash: Some Girls Shame Their Families and "Deserve to Be Killed"

[janterry]

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The video is just two minutes. Worth listening to (shocking/sad).

Kuwaiti Morning Show Delves into “Honor Killings” - Syrian Journalist Lin Al-Atrash: Some Girls Shame Their Families and “Deserve to Be Killed”; Tunisian Journalist Safa Jabou: Violence Is Never the Answer

[hlthe2b]

1. and "some journalists" can actually go so far as to lose their right to appear on tv shows

or publish their violent hate incitement.

[janterry]

6. they all pretty much agree

or at least have some common ground - the difference of opinion is really not all that significant. (which is the most shocking to me)

[lapfog_1]

2. i will never understand a culture that kills girls

and I really don't want to accept such things in my culture in the name of inclusion.

[frogmarch]

7. Same here! nt

[Hortensis]

9. You would if you grew up with it. You do not "understand" such

things since you were brought up in a late-20/early 21st century western liberal democracy and don't choose to. Men who do that in the U.S. are charged with murder, if caught. Actually, it's the same in nations where culture is in transition, with warring old beliefs and new. Fwiw, many, many women around the world fight to save the old beliefs.

[Lucky Luciano]

3. Great name for this journalist "Al-a-trash"

[Dream Girl]

4. As my son would say...

That’s fucked up.

[smirkymonkey]

5. WTF?

[Hortensis]

8. This is very deeply embedded in some societies. We used to have a

friend, a handsome, sophisticated, blue-eyed, blond physicist living in the U.S. but from eastern Turkey, who explained (without apology) that that was an of-course in his family. No killing had ever been necessary to his knowledge, but he accepted both Western and Turkish cultural beliefs -- in their societies. I never thought to ask if sometimes male relatives might weaken and whisk the female away to exile, but he left no doubt his family would do their grim, principled duty. In Turkey.

[janterry]

11. it's really shocking

but - yes. So deeply embedded (you can see the women all kind of agreeing with the. um. need for - consequences).

[Celerity]

10. many fundie xians in the USA drool at the prospect of they themselves allowed to do this

[niyad]

12. Sickening. Would you consider cross-posting this in Women's Rights And Issues? Thanks in

advance.

[electric_blue68]

13. Ugh. Shudders.

Women are people first.

I might have in my late '30s thought who am I to criticize
another's culture.

But not anymore. To hell with patriarchy!

[North Shore Chicago]

14. Betcha

many Q's, incels Et al would LOVE it if they could get away with it in this country!

Remember when Shrub stated, "They hate us for our freedoms?" Riiiiight.

[leftyladyfrommo]

15. That's one way to keep women in their place. nt

[DFW]

16. Shocking, but still a very pervasive mentality

There are millions of Turks living here in Germany, some Arabs as well. My wife was a social worker here, and had to deal regularly with abused women whose families wanted to "correct" their behavior, and kill them if all else failed. So-called "honor killings" still happen, even here, and the killer family members are usually spirited out of Germany and the EU before they can be arrested.

To me, as a Westerner, I find it particularly shocking to see a young woman with a casual sweatshirt and tight jeans espousing this medieval set of social mores, and talking about killing a family member as if she was removing a hangnail. I have Turkish friends here in Germany who find this mentality appalling as well, but they are fully assimilated here. There are hundreds of thousands who are not, and growing up as the female child of such families sometimes does indeed have fatal consequences.