[lbo-talk] Honor Killing and Domestic Violence in Germany

[sharif islam]

This is what I am grappling with.
The incidents of violence towards women within the muslim immigrant
community usually have a religious undertone or at least that is how
it gets reported.  I totally agree with  you that the violence is
based on gender discrimination. However, can you totally ignore the
religious influence?

On 12/6/05, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
> I think that the problem of honor killings committed by immigrants in
> Germany (or elsewhere in the West) should be treated as a subset of
> the problem of general violence against women (much of which is
> committed by their husbands, boyfriends, etc.) based on gender
> discrimination, rather than as a special cultural or religious
> problem beyond "the Berlin Wall" as Peter Schneider puts it.
> Otherwise, we'll play into the hands of anti-immigrant movements.
> Reading the article by Peter Schneider (at <http://www.nytimes.com/
> 2005/12/04/magazine/04berlin.html>), you would be led to believe that
> only or mostly immigrant men commit violence against women, but there
> is no evidence in the article that shows that the incidence of
> violence against women is higher among immigrants from Turkey, etc.
> than native-born Germans.

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