Women’s UN Report Network WUNRN & Crimes of Honor

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WUNRN Programs-Pakistan

Honor Killings Make Dishonorable Men. By Dr. Carole Fontaine They say it is for honor. It is not. They say it is for family. It is not. They say it is Tradition. It is not. They say it is Religion. It is not. Give it a real name: call it despair that makes a man find his courage there, in slaying a female! Such an honorable deed! such an inconvenient need, keeping women alive just so they can breed! Are they human, these brave men? Do they also bleed, or have human feelings, or only the need to feed upon helpless and those who depend- a mother, a daughter, a wife, a friend- all fodder for honor men shall never achieve by such bloody measures, for such raging greed to be powerful, male, in control, and avenged. When all the women are gone, where is their honor then?