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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE
And how many of the cases so far have not been immigrants? I have been watching it and as you say Adam's "father" was a coward who murdered six people or as good as!!!
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you watched a two part documentary, it just so happens that the cases shown just happened to be foreign people. Just as many white men murder their wives and children for many reasons, the only reason its not labelled an honor killing as we stereotype honor killing as a foreign activity, just as typically people link terrorism with muslim al qaeda followers, when there are many white terrorists in the country.
My friends family weren't killed for honour, so it shouldn't be classed as a statistic for honor killings amongst foreigners in the country.
Honour killings are against people who have brought shame to the family, such as commiting adultery or some other form of immoral behaviour, and all riazs mum tried to do was bring 'immigrants' and everyone else together in the community.
If they are to be labelled as killed by their immigrant husband/dad, then you're forcing her to have died for a lost cause, and that deeply saddens me. There is no difference between an immigrant and a british citizen, theyre all human beings, and not all honor killings should be assumed to be carried out by foreigners just because the phrase isnt used when white men kill their families. I'm pretty sure a man murdered his family with an axe not so long ago but it wasn't deemed an honour killing, yet its the same situation.
I think riaz would've been really upset that people thought his mother died because she had done something dishonourable to shame her family. And I refuse to disrespect his memory by referring to it in such a thoughtless way.