OXFAM WORKS TO ERADICATE 'HONOR KILLING'

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

According to (Pakistan) Daily Times, International Oxfam will try to squelch female Muslims being murdered by the males in their clans.
“Honor killing” goes on daily. It happens when an Islamic male decides that a Muslim female has dishonored in some way the clan. The murderer may be the female’s husband, father, brother, uncle or whomever. The “dishonor” may be real or fabricated. The slaying may be by bullet through the head, neck slit or whatever.

Females in Islam are considered to be cursed by the devil from conception. They are conceived with ten curses akin to showing in public their privates. If the female marries, one curse is lifted. The other nine remain.
Females in Islam are considered worse than waste material. That is why they are garbed from head to foot. If an ankle shows, a male Muslim may beat the offending female.

There are Muslims who contest this explanation and definition of honor killing. Those who do are sheltered or misinformed or very much Westernized Muslims who know not what is going on in the real Muslim world daily and Muslims who don’t read the Koran from cover to cover. If you are one of those, please do not email me protesting the truth of what is in this column.

The fact is that as I type somewhere a Muslim female is being slain by a male relative. She has brought some disgrace, real or imagined, upon the clan and so her life must be extinguished.
Now International Oxfam says this has to go. But it will be very difficult. Those who consider the “honor killing” barbaric hope that Oxfam’s efforts are more than speeches and declarations to give the organization some sort of commendation recognition..

According to the press release, Oxfam “will launch a campaign in seven district of the NWFP to end honor killings.”
The seven districts are Swat, Swabi, Charsadda, Mardan, Nowhsera, Peshawar and Kohat. They exist in Pakistan. Oxfam hopes that the educational program will reach throughout South Asia.

The campaign has already been initiated in six districts of Balochistan.
“The (Oxfam) speakers urged the need to develop an alliance of change makers and activists at tehsil, district and provincial levels to address issues, such as women being murdered by the male members of their family or close relatives to restore the family’s honour.

“Dr Arif Mehmood, the representative of Oxfam, said that the campaign was targeted at South Asian countries which had chosen their own social and cultural conditions.
“The speakers said that cultural traditions were hard to break.”

Of course, that is the understatement of the year.

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FOOTNOTE:

The name “Oxfam” comes the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, founded in Britain during the Second World War in 1942. This group of Oxford citizens campaigned for grain ships to be sent through the allied naval blockade to provide relief for women and children in enemy-occupied Greece.
Oxfam International was founded in 1995, formed by the group of like-minded independent non-government organizations, who wanted to work together internationally to achieve greater impact in reducing poverty by their collective efforts.

The twelve Oxfam organizations are based in: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Quebec, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Ireland, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the United States. A small Oxfam International secretariat is based in Oxford, UK, and the secretariat runs advocacy offices in Washington DC, New York, Brussels and Geneva.