Comments on: FDL Book Salon Welcomes Rana Husseini, Murder in the Name of Honor

By: libbyliberal

libbyliberal — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:01:22 +0000

Again, thanks for consciousness raising today. Good luck Joanne and Rana.

By: Joanne Payton

Joanne Payton — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:00:34 +0000

Thanks everyone. Good luck in promoting your book Rana, and the greatest respect to you and to your work.

By: cosperl

cosperl — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:57:06 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I will try to find the book.

By: Rana Husseini

Rana Husseini — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:56:20 +0000

thank you for a great debate and for your interest in this topic :)

By: libbyliberal

libbyliberal — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:56:20 +0000

Lots of sexism with fundamental tribalism, power and control addiction, and that DOUBLE STANDARD you mentioned, that my mind skated right over reading the article. This is happening on so many fronts lately, gender repression and patriarchical paradigm of militarism, competition and power, not partnership and cooperation, internationally. The return to “fundamentalism” … circling the wagons.

I was flabbergasted when I started reading reports that the Afghan women wanted the U.S. out! Because I thought the American presence to protect the women of Afghan from Taliban repression was at least something.

I hoped HRC being a woman as SOS … she would be more sensitized … but her militarism and strong Israel bias has alarmed me.

By: BevW

BevW — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:55:04 +0000

As we come to the end of this interesting Book Salon,

Rana, Thank you for stopping by the Lake and spending the afternoon with us discussing your new book and honor killings.

Joanne, Thank you very much for Hosting this Book Salon.

Everyone, if you haven’t bought Rana’s book yet, here is a link.

Thanks all.

By: NCGal

NCGal — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:55:02 +0000

Thank you, Joanne.

By: Rana Husseini

Rana Husseini — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:53:49 +0000

NCGal

the UN and the world health organiasation estimated in 2000 based on studies that around 5,000 women get killed every year…in pakistan in oone province they talk about around 1,000.. in jordan the annuak figure is 20, syria is between 200-300 and same in yemen..but u r right..i would day that there are cases that goes unreported or other incidents such as forced suicide, suicide and accidental deaths that could be related to honour matters but are never reported.

By: Joanne Payton

Joanne Payton — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:52:58 +0000

There is a (rather old now) UN estimate of 5000 a year, but there are huge problems in reporting as some are faked as suicides, where there are conspiracies it becomes a lot easier to cover up a crime as an accidental death, or there may be collusion by police in covering up murders, and in some cases women and girls are not registered at birth so they don’t officially exist. UK police estimate 12 a year here, forming about 10% of domestic femicides.

By: NCGal

NCGal — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:48:29 +0000

Hello. I am wondering if there are any reasonably good statistics about the number of honor killings & the countries in which they occur? I would think they are probably very underreported.