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Articles with tag: customs

Honor Killings in Babakot

kashkin dabruski   Sep 3, 2008   interacts: 22

Those beautiful faces, our daughters
Gone forever, heads sunk in grief
As words betray us, to describe
Heinous crimes and we call ourselves
The followers of prophet and Islam

There is no ‘honour’ in killing

Beena Sarwar   Sep 2, 2008   interacts: 133

Whether the women were buried alive or whether they were already dead when buried is not the point. They were murdered.

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