Memo Re: Honor Killing

We Are Mad

“If you want to free a society, just give them internet access.
Because people, the young guys, you know,
are all going to go out and see biased media, see
the truth about other nations and their own nation
and they’re going to be able to
contribute and collaborate together.”

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It’s not Islam (“It’s culture”) - but why Islam is not going against it full force? I don’t get this.
I do believe there are parents who come to see how their children are growing up in different culture, different way of life - and come to accept it.

So why -

1) Parents who can accept these new changes - and
2) Parents who cannot and choose to follow cultural tradition

cannot be brought together - via

government’s facilitation or
Islam/Imam’s facilitation?

So that they can discuss - their feelings, challenges they face, and how they can find and build the best way forward.

I think that’s the probably most humane, and real way of attending to this challenge.

[*Academics - seem to be only doing ‘typology’ and not really trusting the potential of interactions.]

January 30, 2012, 12:34am ➼ 3 notes