Islam Forbids Violence Against Women - Stakeholders
This asks us to believe that muslims are not violent towards women. How do they, then, explain the following?
- Islamists executing Christian women and children from a group of 416 hostages. See Alert: African Islamists to begin executing Christian women and children from group of 416 recently kidnapped hostages
2. Taliban edicts have denied girls from getting an education beyond the sixth grade and banned women from working for non-governmental organization (NGOs).
“Three years ago, the world was watching a takeover that was livestreaming horror after horror,” she said, speaking via videoconference from the Afghan capital, Kabul.
“And three years later, while the world’s attention may have turned elsewhere, the horrors have not stopped for Afghan women and girls, but nor has their conviction to stand against the oppression.”
Today would have been Shafilea Ahmed’s 31st birthday but, unfortunately, she isn’t here to celebrate it. She was murdered by her parents 14 years ago in a so-called ‘honour killing’.
The National Day of Memory for Victims of Honour Killings takes place each year on 14 July to remember Shafilea and other victims of ‘honour-based’ violence in the UK. Supporting victims of ‘honour-based’ violence and abuse is something that has been very close to my heart. When I started in the domestic abuse sector 13 years ago, my very first client told me her family would kill her if she ever brought shame on her family or if she did not uphold her family honour.‘Honour-based’ violence is the infliction of violence predominantly upon women who are deemed to have brought shame and dishonour upon their family for reasons usually involving their sexual behaviour (Mohammad Mazher Idriss, 2017).
There has been increased recognition and awareness of ‘honour’ violence and killings in the UK in the last decade, following high-profile criminal prosecutions. Tulay Goren, Heshu Yones, Banaz Mahmod and Shafilea Ahmed were all young Muslim women killed by (primarily) male figures for supposedly acting in too ‘western’ a manner and for engaging in relationships outside marriage (Mohammad Mazher Idriss, 2017).
According to police figures, there were 7,048 reports of ‘honour-based’ violence in the UK between January 2011 and August 2016, with the Metropolitan Police handling almost a third of those reports. ‘Honour-based’ violence is a patriarchal form of violence and relates to male domination over women (Reddy, 2014). It is a way of policing the behaviour of women and their sexual autonomy, thereby allowing men to exercise control (Ortner, 1978). Some of the behaviours viewed as ‘dishonourable’ or deemed to bring ‘shame’ and ‘dishonour’ on the individual, their family and their community, include:- defying parental authority
- ‘westernised’ dress, behaviour or attitudes
- sex before marriage or extra-marital affairs
- being in a relationship that hasn’t been ‘approved’
- rejecting a forced or arranged marriage
- leaving a partner
- seeking divorce, particularly when a dowry may be large
- rumours and gossip.
‘Honour-based’ abuse is still very under-reported and this remains a big challenge. Victims may be more inclined to report to a close friend or a relative they trust, but there are organisations, like Victim Support, who can provide free and confidential support to anyone affected.
Resist Comment: if this is islam forbidding violence against women then we really have slipped into a parallel universe. Make no mistake women of Great Britain: your life in an islam regime would be one of brutality, subjugation, violence and murder.