Girl Buried Alive In Honour Killing Horror

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We may argue whether or not this horrendous crime was inspired by Islam and everybody will quote Qran lines that others will interpret in the most convenient way for the sake of their argument. But we can't turn a blind eye tot he fact that such crimes are likely to happen in patriarchal communities where women's status is considerably lower than men's. And Islam definitely encourages it. It gives men more rights than women while inciting men to feel owners/protectors of their women's conduct and life.

Truth be told, Islam indeed improved living conditions for women, compared to pre-Islamic Arab world, as it gave them at least a few rights. Still, they are not treated as equal. A woman's testimony is not worth as much as man's, it is women who should cover their hair in order not to woo men, not the other way around and a men can beat his wife if he considers her behaviour improper. Also, a Muslim man can marry a non-Muslim, but a Muslim woman doesn't have such right. Even working is something that a woman must ask her husband's permission for. In such a system it's easier for men to feel superior and justified to decide about women's life (or death in this case).

The bottom line is, even if it's not straightforward Qran line that encouraged this murder, the culture Quran promotes gave good grounds for such an ordeal.

Turkey has been torn in between secular west and Islamic east. Ataturk did a lot to secularise the country. But there's one huge issue they've got to deal with, the Kurdish minority which is less interested in being secular and more tradition-oriented. Not to mention that the east of Turkey is way poorer and less educated than the west.