Monday, June 18, 2012

Global News Cast: Honour Violence Awareness Growing


So this Global news cast was on a couple weeks ago, and I must say it really aggravated me. Basically the news is trying to make people “aware” of honour violence among ethnic communities.


My goodness, so many things I can say about this news cast. Firstly, what is the point? The story that they introduce the broadcast with was from 2 decades ago. So basically they’re just bringing up old news, because it’s a slow news day and people just eat this kind of stuff up. Honour based violence is, “normative” in these cultures? What the heck? People who are willing to kill their own kin are obviously mentally unstable, and an act like this is not normative in any culture.

The young girl being interviewed has to worry about the “burden” of holding responsibility of the family name? What? Are you serious? I am from an ethnic background, and I have to say, my family name is not something I ever worry about, and for most girls of a Muslim/any other ethnic background, this isn’t something to worry about. The news cast made it seem as if girls from an ethnic background have to be so super careful, or they’ll end up being honour killed by their family.

Its funny how news cast like this one try to pretend to be culturally sensitive and helping people out, when really their sending an indirect racist message. Because in the end they have a bias point of view, and no matter how many ethnic girls they get to speak out against it, in the end, people will continue to connect honour killings with certain religious/cultural groups because of dumb news casts like these.

If police are going to waste valuable resources on issues like these then they might as well be on the look out for cannibalism, since I heard there was at least 2 cannibal incidents last month. Were just lucky that some sort of middle Eastern/Indian/Pakistani culture were not apart of these cannibal incident, cause then maybe they would have to give it a title like Honour eating’s or something. What the heck is an honour killing anyways? Isn’t it not just domestic violence that ends with death. If your going to label the motive than are people who kill out of love committing romance killings?

Lastly, this story became even more controversial because they decided to film students from the Calgary Islamic School without permission from the school or the children’s parents. Kids can’t even go to school these days without having to worry about news reporters spying on them for footage to connect to a story about a triple homicide from 2 decades ago. 

I am in no way condoning Honour Violence, or trying to downplay the severeness of how horrific it is. This is a problem, and this does happen. Although, I thought this newscast was very unprofessional, and did more harm than good.

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