Fans of Murder in 'Honor Crimes'!

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You should be deeply disturbed and react quickly, and many entities and researchers in psychological, social, and other fields should take seriously the alarming phenomenon of support for those who commit what are called (honor crimes) who kill, with strong determination and premeditation, their daughters, sisters, or female relatives, some of whom are young minors, after the killer decides, in his own mind, and in an atmosphere of public pressure from the surrounding society, and from stable traditions in his mind and in the public consciousness of this society for centuries, that she must be killed, and that he personally is tasked with the mission of killing her, and that this mission invites him to take pride in accomplishing it, believing that it eliminates an eternal shame that threatens him and his family, which is at the same time the family of the victim! And all of this happens without considering the possibility that any of these parties is responsible, even to some extent, for the occurrence of what disgraces them!

Look at the wave of support on social media sites and pages for the latest of this type of crime in the past few days! You will be surprised, at first glance, by general agreements and commonalities that praise the criminal and elevate his status with phrases: you are noble, your blood is free, you are a man, son of a man, and we are all proud of you, and you have erased your shame with your own hands... etc.! Some comments even call for denying the victim the right to be prayed for mercy! Others curse her because she is the one who caused the punishment that will befall her killer!

The big mistake is to limit the handling of these crimes to the criminal aspect, which, of course, the concerned authorities should pay all their attention to! Because it should, in parallel, be understood that this alone does not solve the real causes of this crime, nor does it indicate that it can be solved! And since addressing the intellectual and cultural causes of these crimes takes a long time, it is necessary to start dealing seriously with what can be achieved in terms of a degree of decisive action that is capable of development, not only by punishing the criminal, and promptly, with the harshest punishment, but also by addressing some of the factors that encourage the candidate to commit the crime, especially since there are still no actual steps to criminalize those who use such phrases!