Honor At All Costs

MSNBC:

“I just wanted five minutes alone with the doctor, to give him a little money and get him to lie for me,” said Leyla, who at that time had slept with a boyfriend in Germany. But her plan didn’t work and the doctor confirmed her parents’ worst nightmare. Her mother went into hysterics, wailing in the doctor’s office, while her father stood there, unable to speak.

“It wasn’t until then that I realized what a shame I had brought on them,” she said.

Quickly, they arranged a marriage with a cousin, explaining to the family that she wouldn’t bleed on her wedding night as a result of a sports injury.

It's better than getting murdered by the family.

Comments

[Laura(southernxyl)]

"Now 42, she has managed to build a new life and is married to a German man."

So this happened years ago. She's only three years younger than me. I don't remember reading about honor killings before the last few years - is it possible that they are more widespread now than they were?

Or maybe they weren't reported because nobody cared?

But the article talks about immigrants in Germany who aren't expected to want their piece of the pie but are expected to let go of their own culture. Not gonna happen. People have to have something.

[Isaac Schrödinger]

"People have to have something."

So very true.