are treated. Honor killings occur for a variety of offenses, including allegations of premarital or extramarital sex, refusing an arranged marriage, attempting to obtain a divorce, or simply talking with a man. If a woman brings shame to the family, her male relatives are bound by duty and culture to kill her. "A woman shamed is like rotting flesh," a Palestinian merchant tells me. "If it is not cut away, it will consume the body. What I mean is the whole family will be tainted if she is not killed."
This, among many other things, make me feel so grateful to be an America woman. We have basic freedoms that we take for granted every day. How sad and how hopeless it must be to live as the Muslim woman has to live, in constant fear, in constant oppresion.
2006-09-11
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