Official PA daily decries increase in female honor killings: "It is the male who is the perpetrator of all crimes"
Op-ed by Adel Abd Al-Rahman, regular columnist for Al-Hayat Al-Jadida
“‘Erase the shame’ of the family is the euphemism used for the forsaking of the lives of Palestinian women. As of yesterday [Sept. 22, 2013], 26 young women have paid with their lives this year! ... Although the Palestinian laws have relatively improved regarding the safeguarding of certain women’s rights, the laws and legislators [still] stand helpless and submissive before the power of conventions and customs…
The men forget that it was they who instilled abominable acts and the desecration of the sanctity of girls and women in all times and all periods, because it is the male who is the perpetrator of all crimes, and because abomination and adultery don’t occur of themselves. The age of miracles, of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, peace be upon Him, is over, and was a unique event that will never repeat itself.”
“‘Erase the shame’ of the family is the euphemism used for the forsaking of the lives of Palestinian women. As of yesterday [Sept. 22, 2013], 26 young women have paid with their lives this year! ... Although the Palestinian laws have relatively improved regarding the safeguarding of certain women’s rights, the laws and legislators [still] stand helpless and submissive before the power of conventions and customs…
The men forget that it was they who instilled abominable acts and the desecration of the sanctity of girls and women in all times and all periods, because it is the male who is the perpetrator of all crimes, and because abomination and adultery don’t occur of themselves. The age of miracles, of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, peace be upon Him, is over, and was a unique event that will never repeat itself.”