Saba's Honor Killing

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“Her Father shot her in the head , As an Honor Killing” Nicholas Kristof says that there is. As he tells a story about how a woman named Saba, who survived a murder from her own father. Her father was disappointed in the man that she wanted to marry. Like in Romeo and Juliet where Juliet's father told her who to marry and who do not. Her father said that he tried to regain honor back that she had taken from the family. Even though Saba’s father was charged for attempted murder of his own daughter, the law in Pakistan states that if the family forgives him he is free to go. For Nicholas this is a nation problem and he started start a nation discourse and wants people to help with the daughters with fathers trying to kill them. NIcholas says that, “ I want to start a national discourse about the issue” . Suggesting that the american people should start a discourse to help the people in muslim countries facing these problems Though some say that it’s more of a nation problem of murder or of how other countries …show more content…

He says,” About every 90 minutes, a honor killing unfolds” even though this isn't a really big issue when you have more than three million children dying each year. Honor killing is bad but killing in general is bad and we should be focusing of all the killings and people who die from hunger every year. When producers of the documentary, “ A Girl in the River” they interviewed her and her words were that “ they should be shot in public in an open market so that such a thing will never happens again”. (Qaiser) Even though Saba forgave her father for trying to kill her they still live fairly close to each other. Some people ask why you would forgive your father for such a thing. Her family put a lot of pressure on her to let her father go. The older brother told her “ There's no other way, we have to live in the same

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