What infuriates me the most when I think about discrimination against women is the fact that oftentimes in our society women themselves subscribe to it, defend it, and pass it on to their children.
Here’s a story in today’s al-Ghad: a woman who was found guilty of murder was sentenced to just one year in prison, because the murder she committed was associated with “reduced legal motive” (or something, I don’t know how to translate legal terms well!). So get this… this woman’s daughter, who had been divorced for seven years, used to spend a lot of time outside the house and sleep-over at her friends’ sometimes. The mother found out that her daughter was pregnant, so she took her other daughter, got some heavy sharp object (cutter), and confronted her pregnant daughter before hitting her on the head, neck, and different parts of her body until she killed her.
On one hand, it’s interesting that a mother got a reduced sentence just like a father or brother would have. However, this still sounds to me like COLD-BLOODED MURDER!! I just don’t get where a reduced sentence comes in!!!
Here’s another interesting bit… there was no mention of the word “honor” anywhere in the news article. It interests me because usually, while women are "the honor" of the family, it is the men’s duty to watch over this “honor” and spill blood when need be to “cleanse the shame”. Can I guess that the mother’s reduced sentence would not be because she was “cleansing the honor of the family”, but because it was “in a fit of anger”??
Whatever it is… it’s just very disturbing.
(Oh wait… am I in contempt of the court? Is what I’m writing illegal?)
Here’s a story in today’s al-Ghad: a woman who was found guilty of murder was sentenced to just one year in prison, because the murder she committed was associated with “reduced legal motive” (or something, I don’t know how to translate legal terms well!). So get this… this woman’s daughter, who had been divorced for seven years, used to spend a lot of time outside the house and sleep-over at her friends’ sometimes. The mother found out that her daughter was pregnant, so she took her other daughter, got some heavy sharp object (cutter), and confronted her pregnant daughter before hitting her on the head, neck, and different parts of her body until she killed her.
On one hand, it’s interesting that a mother got a reduced sentence just like a father or brother would have. However, this still sounds to me like COLD-BLOODED MURDER!! I just don’t get where a reduced sentence comes in!!!
Here’s another interesting bit… there was no mention of the word “honor” anywhere in the news article. It interests me because usually, while women are "the honor" of the family, it is the men’s duty to watch over this “honor” and spill blood when need be to “cleanse the shame”. Can I guess that the mother’s reduced sentence would not be because she was “cleansing the honor of the family”, but because it was “in a fit of anger”??
Whatever it is… it’s just very disturbing.
(Oh wait… am I in contempt of the court? Is what I’m writing illegal?)
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