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The Issue Of Honor Crimes By Kecia Ali And Anna Korteweg

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Winter 2018: SOCC29 Family in the Middle East Anthony Wong 1002162072 Critical Review 2 for Week 9 There are three pieces of required readings assigned for Week 9, and the main topic is regarding gender killing and honor of crimes, but I will only focus on two articles written by Kecia Ali and Anna C. Korteweg on this critical review. Authors Kecia Ali (2003) and Anna C. Korteweg (2012) adopt somewhat distinctive views towards the issue of honor crime. Despite different opinions hold by the two authors, they do have some similar ideas in common, which is both of them consistently think that honor killing is universally unacceptable across culture. On this critical review, I will first summarize the different views of Kecia Ali and Anna C. Korteweg towards gender killing and honor of crimes and give my …show more content…

(Korteweg 2012: 144). Korteweg shows us a good example of the cultural factor from the reading that religion plays a particular role in the discussion of violent behaviors related to the honor crimes. To many people including me, we may think that honor crimes must be associated with religion because God does not accept people to get involved in illicit sexual practices and even kill others. God teaches us that committing adultery and murdering are considered evil practices and we should not do these. But surprisingly, Korteweg gives us a different idea that there is no direct relationship between religion and honor crime. (Korteweg 2012: 144). From the article, Korteweg also shows us another example of Islam indicating that religion and honor crimes are not necessarily related. Honor killing is often associated with Islam in public discourse, but we are unable to justify these violent practices in the Quran. (Korteweg

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