Honor Killing In Canada

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After reviewing the articles, many statistics and information were given about honor killing. Most of the articles were against it like” Honor killing as a global problem “which was written by Arslan Ifitkhar in 2016 , and discusses the dangers of honor killing as it threatens a lot of people especially women worldwide and how some people plea on their religion (Islam) in order to justify this crime. Also, “ Preliminary Examination of so-called "Honour Killings" in Canada” by Muhammad Amin (2016) showed that honor killing started many decades ago, and it propagated in a lot of countries and Canada is one of them. Furthermore, the author provided brief information about Honor Killing in Countries with Islamic Law. Moreover,” India Sees Huge Spike in 'Honour' killings “which had been published by Al –Jazeera (2016) indicated …show more content…
Millions of girls are killed each year in order to redeem the honor of the family .Referring to Iftikhar (2016), it gave an example about Muhammad, a dry addict, who killed his sister :25 years old since he believes that “girls are born to stay home” and he is proud of what he did. “ I drugged her first , then I killed her “ because she was bringing dishonor to his family. What kind of people think this way?You are a drug addict, you killed your sister in a harsh way, and you have the courage to speak and be proud. Actually, there are no normal people who can kill others on purpose. So, how about killing their siblings?! Honor killing leads people to have aggressive behavior, and it makes them like terrorists .Thus, it destroys the ethics and humanity of the community as it makes the person merciless and just wants to harm girls. Moreover, we are in the 21th century, the century of technology and development, so it is time to break down that tradition/culture which had been started since decades because it is not acceptable anymore to abuse others and violate their right to

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