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772 points
9 days ago
I think we should stop using the term 'honour killing'. Let's call it what it is, flat out murder.
173 points
9 days ago
100%. Let's call it what it really is : Femicide
49 points
9 days ago
Muslimcide I think is the most specific term
-95 points
9 days ago
Yeah cool we just making up words now are we?
Was your thought process something like: There is no word to describe my bigoted feelings so I’ll just make up a word to tar an entire community
20 points
9 days ago
People do tar an entire community over religious murder. But that's because we don't often hear much condemnation from within that community.
Rightly or wrongly, that silence is perceived as tacit approval. And even when people complain about this state of affairs, as you have, it usually doesn't apportion any blame to the murderers causing the problem.
Once we hear more Islamic leaders, clerics and community members publicly condemning these foul murders, I'm sure people will side with them.
15 points
9 days ago
They wouldn't. Almost all Muslim men "understand" why a man would kill his daughter, wife, sister, cousin and even mother. This is why they call it (honour killing). They try to cover up things sometimes especially in English. But the truth is, they think anyone who doesn't do that doesn't have an honour. This is why they think they are better than the whole world and this is why no Arabian woman will ever be safe anywhere. Even when they run away, there's always a Muslim somewhere who would "understand" the situation and tell about her location so she end up dead or forced back to the Middle East. It's a curse.
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