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| Father shoots daughter for honour |
| 2008-09-14 |
| A man shot his 17-year-old daughter for honor on the Lower Mall. The police said that Nazia, the daughter of Hanif, a resident of Mohni Road Mohalla Qureshian, fled with her lover, a Christian boy, some one week ago. On Saturday, she returned home and took poisonous pills fearing a strong reaction from her parents. The girl, who fell unconscious under the drugÃs effect, was shot dead by her farther. The body was removed to morgue for autopsy. The accused father presented himself before the police for arrest saying that he had killed his daughter over her bad character. A case has been registered against the accused father for killing her daughter. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 The only way to stop this crap is to shame those who "honor" kill, and their families. Only the victim is held up as "innocent", and the only "good" member of the family. The rest of the family, especially the killer, are vilified and exhibited as a "family dishonored by murder", along with the strong suggestion that the dishonor will exist until the *murderer* is dead. This works in several ways. Firstly, by correctly elevating murder as the worst of offenses, not just criminally, but against "honor". Second, by elevating the despised victim over her family, ignoring any petty sin she might have done. And third, creating the idea that murder can only be cleansed as a sin by the death of the murderer, either by sanctioned execution by the government, or implied, by someone killing the murderer. This is not hypocritical, oddly enough, because murder is only of the innocent, but murdering a murderer is justice. Killing a murderer is killing, not murder. An important point. And *anyone* can kill a murderer without punishment, just like killing a rat. So from the moment a murderer commits an "honor" killing, he has signed his own death warrant, and anyone can kill him after, for any or no reason, without fear of punishment themselves. And *this* will definitely put a halt to "honor" murders. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-09-14 12:42 |