Honour killing. Since the advent of Britains mass enrichment it's a term which seems to have entered into general usage within the media.
The wording makes it sound almost positive, after all, honour is a good thing.
Just a couple headlines from recent years, grabbed randomly from varying newspapers. There's certainly enough "honour killing" headlines to pick from.
'Honour killing' trio guilty of murder
Father slit throats of three daughters in 'honour killing' after they were raped by Gaddafi's troops
Parents charged over suspected 'honour' killing
British couple murdered in Pakistan 'honour killing'
'Honour killing' father given life for Tulay murder
Father of 'honour killing' Muslim teenager: 'She was not being forced into marriage'
The term doesn't really conjure up the impact of the crimes. Words like brutal or barbaric might capture it, but there's no getting away from the fact that honour is really a pretty positive sounding word.
Instead of creating an image of a sick, perverted, evil act committed in rage and hatred, it sounds far more compassionate. An act created of shame at honour violated, perhaps even an act of love.
An indigenous man murders his daughter because he hates her boyfriend, the papers might scream Brutal Father Butchered Daughter in Enraged Onslaught.
An enricher - and we all know that honour killing is a concept only applied to enrichers - commits the same crime, we might get a limp Honour Killing Father Murdered Daughter.
Same crime, entirely different presentation. One sounds far worse than the other.
It's almost an excuse, those poor enrichers, it was a matter of honour. Another pandering to minority, presenting a crime within their concepts of honour, making it sound somehow less bad because it was a cultural or religious thing.
Use of the term not only seems to soften the presentation of the barbarity involved, it also partially signals acceptance of an alien honour system into Britain instead of naming that so called honour system for the oppressive and barbaric abomination that it is.
The widespread usage of 'honour' in relation to murder is just another effort at excusing minority and putting the most positive spin possible on whatever brutal acts they commit.
Honour has nothing to do with it, and the British concept of honour is far different to much of this positively medieval oppression, it's high time such crimes were called for what they are and not dressed up in the tawdry rags of an alien and abhorrent system of belief.
Honour killing. Since the advent of Britains mass enrichment it's a term which seems to have entered into general usage within the media.
