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"If my husband, who is of Pakistani origin but had spent his entire life in the United States, were to have killed me, it would automatically have been called an act of “honor killing,” because both of us were Muslim."
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"The HRW definition does not prescribe that honor killing is specific to people of color. That is an implicit white assumption. A label of honor killing would never be attached to any of the thousands of white-on-white cases of intimate-partner violence. It is the presence of a Black or Brown male perpetrator that fosters the idea that a crime is determined by the cultural or religious identity of those involved."
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Åsne Seierstad, for example, author of the bestselling The Bookseller of Kabul, freely admits that she capitalized on the Afghan cultural formality of offering hospitality and moved into a family’s house to get material for her book, and that she “never mastered Dari,” 29 but it seems she felt completely entitled to represent the innermost thoughts of the women of the family who spoke only that language.
— Apr 27, 2026 02:00AM
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Goodreads went through some update and up overly magnifying everything, it's giving me sensory overload
Anyway, I don't think the bookhas a lot of new things to add if you are already aware of the discussions around the subject but still persisting
— Apr 25, 2026 09:27AM
Anyway, I don't think the bookhas a lot of new things to add if you are already aware of the discussions around the subject but still persisting
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"My death would have met these criteria. At the same time, so would the deaths of any of the white women I met at the shelter who faced the prospect of intimate-partner violence because they had left a man or pursued a new relationship or had damaged the ego of some man in their lives. Honor and ego, no one seems to have noticed, are iterations of the same forces of patriarchal dominance. “Honor” makes sense to those in a collectivist society, “ego” to those who live in individualist one. Honor killing and ego killing are identical in their motivations to discipline and destroy women. The driving force in either case is a man who believes he is entitled to power over a woman’s life."
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