Honor Killing Quotes

• For instance, in the last five years [till 2016], we've admitted nearly 100,000 immigrants from Iraq and Afghanistan. And these two countries according to Pew Research, a majority of residents say that the barbaric practice of honor killings against women are often or sometimes justified. That's what they say.

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  Donald Trump

  Country   Years   Practice  

  Source: time.com

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• In Canada, Defending Girls from Islamic Honor Killings Is 'Racist'

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  Pamela Geller

  Girl   Islamic   Honor  

  Twitter post from Jul 7, 2014

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• In a post 9/11 world, in which the uncritical essentializing of people from the "Third-World" has been legitimized; Iraq and Afghanistan have been dehumanized in an attempt to disseminate enlightenment in those "dark" regions; the discourse of "honor killings" is prevalent in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan and has carved a niche in Western academic discourse as another instance of the incorrigible bestiality of the Orient.

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  Nyla Ali Khan

  Dark   Iraq   People  

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide.

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  Alice Glass

  Children   Ideas   Honor  

  "Crystal Castles". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 8, 2012.

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• When I hear from people that religion doesn't hurt anything, I say really? Well besides wars, the crusades, the inquisitions, 9-11, ethnic cleansing, the suppression of women, the suppression of homosexuals, fatwas, honor killings, suicide bombings, arranged marriages to minors, human sacrifice, burning witches, and systematic sex with children, I have a few little quibbles. And I forgot blowing up girl schools in Afghanistan.

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  Bill Maher

  Girl   Suicide   Hurt  

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