family honour
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Western civilization is Indo-Islamic under its skin
Recalling how Indian and Muslim sensitivity to criticism of religion once seemed absurd, the author argues American culture is now drifting toward the same identitarian honour culture, adding that this…
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Film Review: What Will People Say?
A review, with spoilers, of What Will People Say?, in which a Pakistani teenage girl in Norway is taken to Pakistan by her father after being caught with a boy.…
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Only in the Land of the Pure
The author argues that Indian families may disown children for marrying outside caste and religion but would not announce it in a newspaper, whereas in Pakistan the shame falls on…
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“Islamic Chains”
Prompted by Atif Mian’s removal from an advisory council, the author argues Pakistani Muslim liberals tolerate injustice yet bristle at any criticism of Islam, citing izzat and weak outrage over…
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Culture can be more powerful than biology
Sharing an interview with the author of a memoir on honour in Pakistan, the geneticist author argues honour killing shows that culture and kinship incentives can override biology, since fathers…
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An Honor-able Society
Reproduces Tribune and Telegraph reports on a Lahore mother who police say burned her daughter alive for marrying by choice, with other recent cases, a government inquiry and the Human…
