Honor your father and mother, what about your sister?

Honor killing has occurred globally for centuries and still is in practice. Brothers and fathers will kill wives or siblings if they even speak to a male, are suspicious of them seeing a male, or if she was raped. A tainted woman, even if she is tainted against her will, is a dead woman.

Living in fear and under the control of the male in the house, you must travel with a male relative at all times. There is no court, and there is no jury. Death is unavoidable.

In Afghanistan, soccer fields are used for the gathering of men, to stone to death women who have supposedly committed a crime. They die bloody invisible deaths behind thick dark burqas.

In America, this occurs as well. Noor al-Maleki was estranged from her family, due to their incessant want for her to have an arranged marriage with an Iraqi. She was set apart from her family because of her "American ways" of dress and refusal of culture. She started to develop a relationship with a boy in the house she was living in. Her father warned her to discontinue living there or "something bad would happen."

She had seen her father while in the Department of Economic Security (DES) office. When Noor and the woman she was with walked outside, her father ran over both women. Killing his daughter, who bleed out of her mouth and never regained consciousness. Her father faced second-degree murder charges. His reasoning was "honor killing" and protecting the honor of the family that she destroyed.

This problem exists world wide. It should be acknowledged. If you have a sibling, it may seem insane, but that  could be the next target or threat in a case like this. Imagine living in fear, in the dark of a veil, and in a veil that  both blinds onlookers and oneself from the world and problems.

Americans may not wear burqas, but their sight is being clouded by the media's inability to show the truth.
For more information on Noor's story: Time U.S.
To assist women in need globally: Amnesty International