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Originally Posted by AGDee
I met the Not Without My Daughter woman when I was an OT student.. I was treating someone in her household (home health care). Her daughter had that haunted, traumatized look in her eyes.. so sad.
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How old would the daughter be by now? Has her father ever tried to visit her?
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Originally Posted by moe.ron
Is she Arabic or Malay? Or is she Sawak? These questions are very2 important. Honor killing in SE Asia is foreign and I will continue to say so. It's an outdated cultural exercise from the Middle East that is still followed by those who are descendent of that area in the region. However, it's an alien concept to the region as it's frown upon.
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Sarai is dead. She was an American, her husband from Malaysia. Supposedly, he was touted as a hero - he's a newscaster in Kuala Lampur (or was).
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Like I've said, there was a case of Afghan refugee doing the same thing. They were arrested and kicked out of the country. It's an alien concept, just like the honor killing you see in Europe. It's carried out by immigrant from Pakistan. However, it's not native to the UK. So, you can't say it's something dones time and time again in the region.
There is no proof that is' an embedded cultural practices in the region, unless you happen to say that Arabic culture is native to the region.
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I wouldn't know enough to say that this is the usual practice. I only know what Sarai told me in her letters/telephone, and what her sister told us about her death.