Fyra böcker om hedersmord

Nima Dervish och Emre Güngör är inte de enda som skrivit en bok om hedersmord utifrån förövarnas utgångspunkt. Jacqueline Rose recenserar i en 17 sidor lång text tre böcker som handlar om hedersmord i det senaste numret av London Review of Books: Murder in the Name of Honour av Rana Husseini, In Honour of Fadime: Murder and Shame av Unni Wikan och Honour Killing: Stories of Men Who Killed av Ayse Onal. Onals bok bygger, liksom boken av Dervish och Güngör, på intervjuer med mördare.

Jacqueline Rose noterar bland annat kvinnornas roll i hedersförtrycket.

One of the most disturbing aspects of these stories is the involvement of mothers in policing their daughters, and even on occasion in killing them. Purna Sen, the head of human rights at the Commonwealth Secretariat, sees the involvement of women as one of the distinctive features of honour crimes. Tina Isa, the daughter of a Palestinian father and Brazilian mother, was killed in 1989 in St Louis: her mother was recorded telling her daughter to die, over and over again, as she lay on the floor having been stabbed six times (the house was bugged because the FBI had the father under surveillance as a suspected terrorist). ‘Rape her tonight,’ a mother in Maps for Lost Lovers, tells her son-in-law on his wedding night, knowing that her daughter is repelled by this man whom she’s been forced to marry.

Det är 10 år sedan Pela Atroshi mördades. Detta uppmärksammas med en konferens i Stockholm imorgon, arrangerad av Glöm aldrig Pela och Fadime och Humanisterna. Tyvärr är det för sent att anmäla sig.