Honour killings are a product of violent, patriarchal misogyny and, as such, they should be approached via the framework of women’s emancipation, not used as a platform from which to cry “Racism!” To even insinuate that the victims here are the “powerless” brown men who just want to kill their daughters in peace without interference from white, western liberals is not only grotesque, it is inaccurate given the work that so many people (mostly women) are doing within these cultures to end violence against women. How then was this talk and title approved in the first place? I tried to reach the festival curators for comment but since they are unwilling to give more statements at this time, I can only go by what has already been released to the public. As such, it seems to me that FODI was trading on the status of the scary Muslim “other” to sell this gig.Hizb ut-Tahrir is a political organisation that is considered so far outside the Muslim mainstream that even Saudi Arabia has banned them.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 01:00:07 +0000
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