Oscar frontrunner highlights Islamic Honor Killings

Honey Bear · Feb 26, 2016

In their version of events, they would beat Saba Qaiser, shoot her in the head, stuff her in a bag, and drop her body into the river. Her father and uncle would do this in the middle of the night, when no one was watching, and no one would know what happened to her.

But that’s not how events unfolded. When the filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy reached Saba in Gujranwala, a city in Pakistan’s Punjab province, she was recovering in the hospital. She had escaped by holding on to the bushes near the water’s edge and then climbing out to find help. The bullet had missed Saba’s brain but sliced open her left cheek, bursting a blood vessel that left her eye swimming in a pool of red. That haunting image of Saba begins Obaid Chinoy’s documentary “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness,” which is one of this year’s Oscar contenders for short documentary, and which will air on HBO in March.

The film shows how Saba struggles with Pakistan’s “forgiveness law,” a loophole in the justice system that allows families to forgive the murderers involved in honor killings, and ultimately lets them go free.

“It’s important that people start thinking of killing wives and daughters as a crime, because so few people go to jail for it,” Obaid Chinoy told me. “If people don’t start thinking about it as a crime, how are we going to change it? Is this part of our religion, our culture? How can we allow this to happen?”

“People are so obsessed with the concept of honor—literally across Pakistan,” Obaid Chinoy told me, her voice laden with urgency. “I want people to see honor killings as premeditated, cold-blooded murder, a reality that gets garbled in wording about ‘honor’ and ‘shame.’ ”

Obaid Chinoy plans to hold screenings of “A Girl in the River” in colleges and schools across Pakistan once the film launches. But it was the Oscar nomination that seemed to prompt Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to recognize the killings as an urgent problem. He congratulated Obaid Chinoy and then vowed to eradicate honor killings. (Let’s see how Sharif develops these efforts in the months ahead, and how he works with his brother, who is the current chief minister of Punjab, the province where Saba currently lives only a few alleyways from her father’s home, in Gujranwala.)
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http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-powerful-documentary-about-pakistans-honor-killings

Finally, light being shed internally on a microcosm of the incredibly, incredibly hateful aspects of Islam that stop at no lengths to give it's males a sense of masculinity.

Cohete Rojo · Feb 26, 2016

It's Friday night: it's hot, you don't have a date - because all the women have been married off as 3rd wives or been honor killed - , you can't masturbate, and you've got sand in your ass.

Wouldn't you be pissed off, too?

So easy to see why many young muslim men turn toward extremism and jihad.

Exiled · Feb 26, 2016

Cohete Rojo said: ↑

It's Friday night: it's hot, you don't have a date - because all the women have been married off as 3rd wives or been honor killed - , you can't masturbate, and you've got sand in your ass.

Wouldn't you be pissed off, too?

So easy to see why many young muslim men turn toward extremism and jihad.
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wrong again Cohete , these spicy burritos can cause more than a haemorrhoid i guess.

Honour killing =un-Islamic. its a savage cultural practice that contradict with the religion

IBTL · Feb 26, 2016

Cohete Rojo said: ↑

It's Friday night: it's hot, you don't have a date
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I thought for sure you were talking about honey boo boo

Sweet Lou 4 2 · Feb 27, 2016

It's misleading to call this an "Islamic" issue - religion isn't mentioned in the article - this is a problem throughout South Asia.

Honey Bear · Feb 27, 2016

Exiled said: ↑

wrong again Cohete , these spicy burritos can cause more than a haemorrhoid i guess.

Honour killing =un-Islamic. its a savage cultural practice that contradict with the religion
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Unfortunately, the reputed female muslim who made the documentary would disagree. Islamic scriptures the govern the muslim diaspora are the foundation for the manipulative ideals that lead to Honour Killings.

Sweet Lou 4 2 said: ↑

It's misleading to call this an "Islamic" issue - religion isn't mentioned in the article - this is a problem throughout South Asia.
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Unfortunately, the reputed female muslim who made the documentary would disagree. Islamic scriptures that govern the muslim diaspora are the foundation for the manipulative ideals that lead to Honour Killings.

Perhaps it's time to watch the film before talking out of your ass.

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