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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