Are Some Honor Killings More Equal Than Others?Continue
By Phyllis Chesler, FoxNews.com
If an honor killing is committed by Muslims in North America, chances are you won’t read about it in the mainstream American media, except perhaps locally, and briefly. However, if the honor killing has been perpetrated by Hindus or Sikhs, and in faraway India, the crime merits prominent treatment in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and of course, in The New York Times.
For example, on Saturday, July 10 the Gray Lady ran a front page article about a caste-related honor killing in Koderma, India.
The murdered young woman, Nirupama Pathak, a journalist, was a Brahmin, considered the highest caste; for more than a year, she was secretly engaged to a “top” fellow student who belonged to the “middle upper caste.” Ms. Pathak was also secretly pregnant. For her, there was no going back. And, unlike the law in many Muslim countries, the Indian law was on her side: Despite tribal tradition, inter-caste marriages are specifically permitted. Poor Nirupama was found dead in her bedroom in her family home. The family told the police, variously, that she had either electrocuted or hung herself. They produced a suicide note. However, according to an autopsy, it seems she had been suffocated. Since only her mother had been at home with her, her mother was arrested.
In late May, The Washington Post also did a major story about a Hindu couple in India whose marriage was ruled “incestuous” (they were from the same clan as well as caste); thus, the groom was strangled and the bride forced to drink pesticide. Their bodies were dumped in a canal. The fact the murderers and their victims were Hindus was openly—almost gladly--discussed.
Why do I write “gladly?” Because this, after all, is proof that honor killings are not specific to Muslims. Nevertheless, according to my 2010 study in Middle East Quarterly, 84% of those who commit honor murders in North America have been Muslims and 96% of honor murderers in Europe were Muslims.
Yes, Hindus and Sikhs have committed honor murders in the West. Apparently, the kind of Hindus who emigrate to the West do not bring such tribal or religious customs along with them.
But Muslims do.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Media Silence on muslim "Honor" Murders
The msm refuses to report "honor" murders perpetrated by muslims, which represent the overwhelming majority of them. There has been media silence over the plight of the muslim Harry Potter actress threatened with death by her brother and father for dating a Hindu man. You would think that her being an actress who was featured in a blockbuster movie would garner alot of media attention considering all the other mundane celebrity "news" we are being bombarded with, such as Mel Gibson and Lindsey Lohan. But for some reason the story of the Harry Potter actress isn't considered remotely newsworthy. I wonder why. Why does big media cover for the muslim community?
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lawmakers and politicians are blissfully unaware of what goes on outside their narrow fishpond, and they have no clue about the effect of their actions on the wider world.
The Knesset approved the first reading of a new law on Jewish conversion on Monday. The proposed law gives the Chief Rabbinate a monopoly on conversions. It is not really clear how much the new law will change the status quo in practical terms; Israel has only ever recognized conversions performed by Orthodox rabbis in Israel.
Nevertheless, the law shows how blissfully unaware our lawmakers and politicians are of what goes on outside their narrow fishpond, and that they have no clue about the effect of their actions on the wider world. Much of this is based on the anachronistic view that Israel should be impervious to the views of the gentiles and do whatever it thinks is right.
Now it turns out that Israel’s lawmakers are also completely blind and deaf to what Jews around the world (and a large proportion of Jews in Israel) feel, think and believe. Approximately 85 percent of world Jewry is not Orthodox. For reasons of political expediency and in order to maintain peace and quiet in the coalition, the Knesset is about to pass a law that offends the vast majority of world Jewry.
Of course, one can argue, that the feelings and beliefs of Jews who are not Israeli citizens need not to be taken into account by Israel’s lawmakers, who are, after all, elected by Israeli citizens. While this argument is correct in a dry, legalist way, it is phenomenally shortsighted.
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