Every religion has some form of honor killing, but these days only one seems to do it…
wtf?
When your honour is worth more to you than your child’s life, you’re not worth the air needed to pronounce “honour”.
“*With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil – that takes religion*.” – Steven Weinberg
She never should have returned home. RIP
I hope they live a long time.
People should make the distinction between an arranged marriage and a forced marriage. The BBC story refers to the marriage as “arranged”, which is inaccurate and actually dangerous.
An arranged marriage is like a dating service, where you don’t have to get married if you don’t want to. In fact you don’t have to take part in the whole thing in the first place if you don’t want to. Relatives and friends find potential suitors for you, you meet many and you pick one and get married to that person. If you don’t like any of the suitors you meet you say to yourself, “f*ck this, I’m not meeting any more of these weirdos.” It’s like [match.com](https://match.com) but your relatives and friends find potential matches instead of an algorithm.
A force marriage is where your relatives force you to marry someone whether you like the idea or not. That is what the poor woman in this story was the subject of, not an arranged marriage.
Racist English people cannot make the distinction between an arranged marriage and a forced one. In fact they actually don’t want to because they would rather tar all brown people with the same brush. There are many English people like that, perhaps the majority.
The Italian court did the right thing, as would courts in all European countries, in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
The BBC story gives you the impression that the Italian court has done something out of the ordinary, which I am sure is untrue. As a brown British person I like the BBC a lot but they messed up this time.
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Could have been any religion, but…
Every religion has some form of honor killing, but these days only one seems to do it…
wtf?
When your honour is worth more to you than your child’s life, you’re not worth the air needed to pronounce “honour”.
“*With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil – that takes religion*.” – Steven Weinberg
She never should have returned home. RIP
I hope they live a long time.
People should make the distinction between an arranged marriage and a forced marriage. The BBC story refers to the marriage as “arranged”, which is inaccurate and actually dangerous.
An arranged marriage is like a dating service, where you don’t have to get married if you don’t want to. In fact you don’t have to take part in the whole thing in the first place if you don’t want to. Relatives and friends find potential suitors for you, you meet many and you pick one and get married to that person. If you don’t like any of the suitors you meet you say to yourself, “f*ck this, I’m not meeting any more of these weirdos.” It’s like [match.com](https://match.com) but your relatives and friends find potential matches instead of an algorithm.
A force marriage is where your relatives force you to marry someone whether you like the idea or not. That is what the poor woman in this story was the subject of, not an arranged marriage.
Racist English people cannot make the distinction between an arranged marriage and a forced one. In fact they actually don’t want to because they would rather tar all brown people with the same brush. There are many English people like that, perhaps the majority.
The Italian court did the right thing, as would courts in all European countries, in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
The BBC story gives you the impression that the Italian court has done something out of the ordinary, which I am sure is untrue. As a brown British person I like the BBC a lot but they messed up this time.