Honor Diaries is a documentary film produced by Paula Kweskin in 2013. The film focuses on Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Dr. Qanta Ahmed, Nazie Eftekhari, Manda Zand Ervin, Fahima Hashim, Zainab Khan, Raheel Raza, Jasvinder Sanghera, Raquel Saraswati, and Juliana Taimoorazy. The nine women are all women’s rights activists who have witness cruelty within the Muslim world. The women in the documentary each tell a story about what happened to them and what made them be an activist. The documentary is about the way Muslim use violence towards women for honor, it gives a detailed focuses on a woman’s purity otherwise using female genital mutilation (FGM), it explains traditions like forced marriages and women not being educated. I give
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Every story may have a good outcome or a bad one, but when you’re living in the world of the Muslim people men don’t care. Each one of these woman has a past that makes them change their point of view. For example, Raheel Raza, is a woman who at a young age was given the option of an arranged wedding. The most unbelievable part about the arrange wedding was that it was with one of her cousins. The reason they wanted her to marry her cousin was that there hadn’t been a marriage within the family since Raza’s grandparents got married. She didn’t want to get married to her cousin because she didn’t love him. Her parents accepted the fact that she didn’t love her cousin, but her Aunt and Uncle didn’t. Her Aunt and Uncle went to her house every day for three years to see if she changed her mind. At the end she marries her husband, and they have been together for more than thirty years. One of the most difficult parts is learning how woman in the Muslim tradition are treated, and its worst when hearing it from a woman who has gone through it and talks about it. In some weird way I like the fact that the movie starts with each of the women’s own experience, and even if they are not Muslim woman each one of them have dealt with if first
Every story may have a good outcome or a bad one, but when you’re living in the world of the Muslim people men don’t care. Each one of these woman has a past that makes them change their point of view. For example, Raheel Raza, is a woman who at a young age was given the option of an arranged wedding. The most unbelievable part about the arrange wedding was that it was with one of her cousins. The reason they wanted her to marry her cousin was that there hadn’t been a marriage within the family since Raza’s grandparents got married. She didn’t want to get married to her cousin because she didn’t love him. Her parents accepted the fact that she didn’t love her cousin, but her Aunt and Uncle didn’t. Her Aunt and Uncle went to her house every day for three years to see if she changed her mind. At the end she marries her husband, and they have been together for more than thirty years. One of the most difficult parts is learning how woman in the Muslim tradition are treated, and its worst when hearing it from a woman who has gone through it and talks about it. In some weird way I like the fact that the movie starts with each of the women’s own experience, and even if they are not Muslim woman each one of them have dealt with if first