A New York-born 14-year-old lady was murdered by her Pakastani father and uncle in a so-called “Honor Killing,” in actuality a horrible brutality.
Hira Anwar lived in New York along with her mother and father – each Pakistani immigrants who had emigrated twenty years in the past. Though the New York Occasions stories she was a standard, joyful teenager when exterior her dwelling, her mother and father anticipated a strict and modest code of conduct for her as a younger lady.
On Monday night time, her father and uncle felt she had introduced disgrace to her household and shot her useless throughout what was portrayed as a trip again to Pakistan.
What did Anwar do to upset her father so badly that impressed her to kill? She was on-line, posting movies to TikTok like several of particular person her age. Her father thought the content material was not applicable.
He later confessed to the homicide in Quetta, the capital of the southwestern province of Balochistan, Pakistan.
The Occasions stories this isn’t an aberration amongst Pakistanis, however an ongoing drawback towards ladies in that tradition.
Citing the Human Rights Fee of Pakistan, the Occasions lists the variety of these honor killings per yr as remaining steady with 588 in Pakistan final yr, 490 in 2023, and 590 for 2022.
One lady was murdered by her brother for utilizing a mobile phone whereas one other was poisoned by her mother and father for relationship.
One other honor killing came about in Italy when a girl resisted a compelled marriage.
Pakistan has launched harsh punishment together with the dying penalty in some instances for honor killings however the issue stays.
The Occasions tries to tiptoe round the true situation in quoting Kavita Mehra, govt director of Sakhi for South Asian Survivors, a nonprofit in New York who stated these cases are defined by being, “enmeshed in intergenerational trauma — cycles of ache, silence and patriarchal management, formed by histories of colonialism, displacement and migration.”
It’s unclear how trauma, ache, “the patriarchy,” or colonialism have something to do with males murdering the ladies of their household.
Based on a State Division report from 2021, 96 p.c of the inhabitants are Muslim.
Even the place Muslims don’t maintain an amazing majority in a rustic, we see violence and brutality towards ladies.
Look no additional than the United Kingdom the place gangs of Pakistani males groom and rape younger ladies whereas the federal government downplays the abuse.
Anwar ul-Haq spent twenty years in the US earlier than murdering his daughter. His customs and backwards values that impressed him to homicide his personal little one remained with him.
To place this within the context of the US, there are sadly immigrants who come right here with no intention of adopting our values. Though this homicide occurred in Pakistan, it was dedicated by a person residing in the US towards his daughter, an American.
If we saved what Vice President J.D. Vance referred to as, “the dumbest immigration coverage on this planet,” courtesy of former President Joe Biden, we’d have seen extra abhorrent tales like that of Hira Anwar or the quite a few younger ladies within the UK.
Happily, widespread sense prevails as President Donald Trump makes actual progress in upending these insurance policies, however not earlier than the tragic murders of so many harmless Individuals.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.
