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The Price of Justice for a Raped Pakistani Girl by Phyllis Chesler The Huffington Post May 30, 2013 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1120/the-price-of-justice-for-a-raped-pakistani-girl Print Send RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. The American government has just gone into the anti-honor-killing "business." Given my extensive academic and legal work documenting and opposing honor killing, I support this venture. I do find it a bit odd that the U.S. Consulate in East Jerusalem has just launched such a campaign--but for Palestinian women only. I have written about honor killing among Palestinians and among Israeli Arabs; I also interviewed Palestinian feminist Asma Al-Ghoul about how she was fired and then arrested for her anti-honor-killing advocacy both in Gaza and on the West Bank. Thus, I favor some U.S. intervention in the matter. However, I wonder: Why not branch out to Pakistan or Afghanistan where honor killing and honor-based violence is, possibly, even more epidemic? Last night, I watched an excellent and heartbreaking Frontline documentary by Habiba Nosheen about honor-based violence in Pakistan: "Outlawed in Pakistan." Thirteen-year-old Kainat Soomro was chloroformed, drugged, kidnapped, and then gang-raped for three or four days by four men who threatened to kill or sell her. Amazingly Kainat escaped, in her bare feet and without her headscarf. Read the full article at The Huffington Post.
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