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How Academia Whitewashes Muslim Honor Killings
The PC police find a new scapegoat.
February 24, 2016
Phyllis Chesler
The whitewashing of Muslim honor killings in America has seeped into academia. And the PC police have found a new scapegoat: Hindu Americans.
In January, the Journal of Family Violence published âAn Exploratory Study of Honor Crimes in the United Statesâ by Brittany E. Hayes, Joshua D. Froelich and Steven M. Chermak. It was an act of cowardice as well as a shoddy piece of research. It broke absolutely no new ground, either theoretically or statistically, and is so âpolitically correctâ that it completely misses an entire forest for a tree.
The studyâs first error consists of comparing violence against women in general with femicide. Being battered is not the same as being murdered.
A classic honor killing is a family conspiracy mainly against a young daughter; fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles and cousins â sometimes even grandfathers â may join in. Westerners donât often kill their teenage daughters.
The reason Hayes et al. place honor killings within the broader context of âviolence against womenâ is clear. They donât want to be accused of âIslamophobiaâ or of targeting any ethnic or religious group.
They donât tell us the names of any of the 16 honor-killing perpetrators or the names of their victims. The phrase âMuslim perpetratorâ and âMuslim honor killingâ appear nowhere. In 10,000 words, only 14 are related to âIslam,â âMuslims,â âArabsâ or âMiddle Easterners.â
Three times, Hayes et al. rail against âWestern media coverage.â They write: âSignificantly, media reporters in the United States may be more inclined to cover honor crimes, especially those committed by Middle Easterners, compared to other fatal crimes because they may be perceived as more âexoticâ and news worthy.â They insist, âReporters may search for an honor crime angle when the victim and/or offender are of a particular ethnicity or religion .â.â. there is a need to study honor crimes in the United States that involve victims and perpetrators from other cultures, like India, or extremist ideologies.â
Wrong.
The New York Times, for example, has published a series of articles on Hindu honor killings in India and has published very few articles about Muslim honor killings in the United States, in North America or in Europe.
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How Academia Whitewashes Muslim Honor Killings
The PC police find a new scapegoat.
February 24, 2016
Phyllis Chesler
The whitewashing of Muslim honor killings in America has seeped into academia. And the PC police have found a new scapegoat: Hindu Americans.
In January, the Journal of Family Violence published âAn Exploratory Study of Honor Crimes in the United Statesâ by Brittany E. Hayes, Joshua D. Froelich and Steven M. Chermak. It was an act of cowardice as well as a shoddy piece of research. It broke absolutely no new ground, either theoretically or statistically, and is so âpolitically correctâ that it completely misses an entire forest for a tree.
The studyâs first error consists of comparing violence against women in general with femicide. Being battered is not the same as being murdered.
A classic honor killing is a family conspiracy mainly against a young daughter; fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles and cousins â sometimes even grandfathers â may join in. Westerners donât often kill their teenage daughters.
The reason Hayes et al. place honor killings within the broader context of âviolence against womenâ is clear. They donât want to be accused of âIslamophobiaâ or of targeting any ethnic or religious group.
They donât tell us the names of any of the 16 honor-killing perpetrators or the names of their victims. The phrase âMuslim perpetratorâ and âMuslim honor killingâ appear nowhere. In 10,000 words, only 14 are related to âIslam,â âMuslims,â âArabsâ or âMiddle Easterners.â
Three times, Hayes et al. rail against âWestern media coverage.â They write: âSignificantly, media reporters in the United States may be more inclined to cover honor crimes, especially those committed by Middle Easterners, compared to other fatal crimes because they may be perceived as more âexoticâ and news worthy.â They insist, âReporters may search for an honor crime angle when the victim and/or offender are of a particular ethnicity or religion .â.â. there is a need to study honor crimes in the United States that involve victims and perpetrators from other cultures, like India, or extremist ideologies.â
Wrong.
The New York Times, for example, has published a series of articles on Hindu honor killings in India and has published very few articles about Muslim honor killings in the United States, in North America or in Europe.
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How Academia Whitewashes Muslim Honor Killings