Skrämmande rapport om "hedersmord" i Storbritannien

På ett år har nästan 10 unga flickor fallit från balkonger. Härom dagen dog en ung flicka i Malmö omedelbart efter att antagligen blev utputtad av släktingar. Det handlar om barbariska traditioner som vi måste erkänna, se och bekämpa.

The Center for Social Cohesion i Storbritannien har i dagarna gett ut en rapport om hedersvåld i Storbritannien. Rapporten är verkligen inte, som i fallet med Rädda barnens rapport, censurerad.

I rapporten beskrivs i flera fall hur hedersmorden gått till. Det är vidrig läsning. Här är ett avsnitt om kurdiska hedersmord som rapporten menar oftare än andra hedersmord är ritualistiska. Här är det tydligt att straffen utförs kollektivt och i samförstånd.

"In many cases, Kurdish honour killings have a strong ritual element. Often the murder itself and the events leading up to it seem intended to degrade the victim and to present the murder as an act of collective justice.

When the 19-year old Shawbo Ali Rauf was taken from her home in Birmingham to Iraqi Kurdistan and killed in May 2007, her relatives stoned her to death. This ‘Islamic’ execution was presumably intended to portray the murder – both to the woman and other family members – as a legitimate act that was both culturally and religiously permissible.

Similarly, Banaz Mahmod was punished before her death with rape and beatings designed to deliberately humiliate her. On the orders of her father, she was stripped by her killers and raped for two hours in her family home before being garrotted. Mohamad Hama, a 30-year old Kurd recruited by Banaz’s father to kill her, was recorded telling a friend in prison that he had “slapped” and “fucked” the 20-year old woman as her father watched. The ritualised nature of such abuse makes it clear that such killings are seen by elements in the Kurdish community as quasi-judicial punishments with a strong moral dimension rather than as spontaneous outbursts of anger. Often, such ritualised brutality suggests these killings are intended as a warning to other women not to transgress the community’s moral ‘red lines’."

Hedersmord som dessa är till för att disciplinera andra flickor. Morden sker alltså också i förebyggande syfte. Hur i hela friden ska man kunna bekämpa attityder som dessa? Fruktansvärt.
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Emil