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So here's us, on the raggedy edge.
You go your way / I'll go your way too — Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen |
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It’s finding out information like this from the New York Times that always frustrates me about the middle east, and how the American government cozys up to these governments when it’s convenient.
How to Avoid Honor Killing in Turkey? Honor Suicide
BATMAN, Turkey — For Derya, a waiflike girl of 17, the order to kill herself came from an uncle and was delivered in a text message to her cellphone. “You have blackened our name,” it read. “Kill yourself and clean our shame or we will kill you first.”
Derya said her crime was to fall for a boy she had met at school last spring. She knew the risks: her aunt had been killed by her grandfather for seeing a boy.
Reading past this paragraph is unnecessary to understand the problem.
Clothing the problem in religious differences does nothing to make it more acceptable on a human level.
This is not honour — this is shame.
Posted by skooter at 3:01 PM
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