On
December 18th, the FBI offered a new reward of twenty thousand dollars for
information leading to the capture of alleged honor/horror killing
Egyptian-born father, Yaser Said. Two filmmakers, Xoel Pamus and Nenna Nejad,
who are working on a documentary about the 2008 honor killing of Sarah and
Amina Said in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, uncovered compelling evidence which
they turned over to the authorities.
The
West has been forced to take honor killings seriously. Earlier this month, the
seventh honor killer involved in British-Kurdish Banaz Mahmud's 2006 murder was
finally caught and jailed in Great Britain. (Honor killings are not like
domestic violence in that an entire family of origin conspires to kill a young
daughter for real or imagined disobedience.) Also in December, Sarbit Kaur
Athwal, who testified against her British-Sikh honor killing family, won a
prize for her bravery - "The Ultimate Woman Warrior award."
This
month was also a milestone of sorts for me in this same area. One does not
often get to experience redemptive justice on as grand a scale as I just have
but this December that is precisely what happened. [more...]
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