Teen pregnant with rapist’s baby shot by fiance in ‘honour killing’ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14853305/Horror-teenager-pregnant-rapists-baby-shot-dead-fiance-honour-killing-sex-attack-Turkey.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkish-teenager-honor-killed-fiance-091213693.html
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I’m so fed up with honor killings. There’s no honor in killing innocent women.
Honor killing = accepted reason not to just deal with your own anger issues and take it out on a woman who was already a victim of a different man.
Yuck.
Well this encapsulates the evils of patriarchy in one horrible situation.
Only honorable thing would be to get the rapist. So sad.
This is the problem I have with the honor killing logic, If someone rapes your fiancé and you’re going to crash out and kill someone why not kill the rapist. Killing the victim and double killing the baby does nothing to solve the twisted logic, dude still raped your fiancé, maybe this whole thing never was about honor and it was just about punishing women.
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Let’s call it what it actually is: femicide.
It’s femicide, why don’t they call it by its name?
If they were white, it’d be called Family drama/tragedy. Which would be just an isolated incident with no connection to any other such family drama. But because it’s Islam, it’s because of Islam. But never because of patriarchy.
Not all men. But always men.
I married my husband who converted and the idea that we were dating before brought shame to my family. It was a big deal and the shit they said and did before our Islamic marriage was wild. I’m in Los Angeles. lol. I was born here.
Tl;dr: we have honor killings in the west too, but we call them DV or femicide or something else.
Back in 2015 I went back to my mother’s home to recover financially after my abusive (and now ex) husband left me destitute. My mother was abusive too but I had nowhere else to turn. Her then husband wasn’t a great person either. I was working 48 hours a week and going to school for 20 hours. My mother was retired but she refused to let me borrow the car. Instead she would drive me and charge me for gas. I also had to buy my own food. Her monthly pension was three times what I made in a month.
I was putting away 50% of my meagre salary so that I could fix my financial situation, literally pinching pennies, but when the water heater broke her and her unemployed husband forced me to buy them a brand new heater. He would also eat my food. I would do groceries on Sunday for the whole week and by the time I came home on Monday night, after working for 8 hours and being at school for 4, the food for the WHOLE week would be gone.
When I had enough and told my mother that she had to talk to her husband, she instead sicced him on me. He bashed my bedroom door in, told me my childhood home was not my home and that I needed a good beating so I’d learn my place. When I tried to defend myself he told me I was a “fucking whore” and that whores had to be killed. When I arrived at the ER, the receiving doctor looked at me and assumed I was part of a group of victims from pile-up car crash that was being rushed there at that moment.
He tried to kill me again several months later, this time with a machete. Thing is, this whole thing and the way my mother sided with him and defended him to the point of harboring him from the police so that he couldn’t be taken to court (because ofc I pressed charges), made me realize that if they had ever found out I did sex work in the past, he probably (like,.definitely) would’ve killed me, and my mother would’ve been all weepy and shit, but saying some crap like “well of course it hurts me because she’s my daughter and I loved her, but she threw her life away by being a whore. Why does God punish me this way!?”
I guess my point is that honor killings happen in other non-islamic settings, they’re just not called that and we’re stupidly blind to it. All you need for an honour killing is conservatism + misogyny/sexism/patriarchy, and they have always happened in the west too, we’ve just always called them something else.
Edit to add: I don’t write this to discount the experience of people who live in communities where honour killings are widespread, but more to tell other women to realize that this is a problem most of us are at risk of having. Women’s issues are all women’s issues.
Not that I believe in murdering people, but why not aim that bullet towards the rapist? He’s the one who legitimately did the wrong thing. Not the innocent lady.
Just adding to the statistic that women face higher rates of abuse/murder during pregnancy. Yay.
Wtf. WTF!
I skimmed the title twice and could not believe what I was reading
Couldn’t he have just cancelled the engagement? This is fucking insane. The woman did nothing wrong. She was raped.
Religion is a fucking cancer.
This is the stuff we should be posting on MRA subs. We’re the choir.
The article describes the rape as a “sex attack”. I can’t put my finger on why that phrasing specifically bothers me.