{"id":432,"date":"2013-12-13T15:46:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T15:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2021-12-01T14:27:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:27:18","slug":"cultural-fears-hinder-war-on-honour-killing-says-film-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/cultural-fears-hinder-war-on-honour-killing-says-film-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural fears hinder war on \u2018honour\u2019 killing, says film-maker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Political correctness is hampering the fight against so-called honour-based violence in Britain, a campaigner has warned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Deeyah Khan, whose documentary about the victim of an \u201chonour\u201d killing from London recently won an Emmy, called for the police to set up a specialist unit to deal with the problem.<\/p>\n

The UK-based film-maker, whose parents are from Pakistan and Afghanistan, said there were police departments dealing with witchcraft and gang violence, but none dedicated to investigating \u201chonour\u201d violence.<\/p>\n

Speaking at an international conference on women\u2019s rights in London, Ms Khan compared it with organised crime. She said it needed specialist policing because there were multiple perpetrators.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe victims have to be protected in a certain way. They are at risk from their entire communities,\u201d she said. \u201cThere are aunties and cab drivers and even people in dole offices looking out for the women. There are bounty hunters and hitmen who don\u2019t even take money to kill them, they do it because they see it as a necessity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Khan\u2019s film Banaz: A Love Story documented the case of Banaz Mahmod, an Iraqi Kurd from Mitcham who was murdered by her family in 2006, and her body buried in a suitcase in Handsworth, Birmingham. The film won an Emmy for best international documentary in October. She said: \u201cIt is awful that these crimes happen anywhere, but the fact it is happening here in the UK is unacceptable.\u201d She added that people were afraid to get involved because of political correctness and a sense that \u201cwe don\u2019t want to step on the toes of communities\u201d.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cBut if the outcome is our young people die or suffer,\u00a0 what good is that kind of politeness? Our silence allows this to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Political correctness is hampering the fight against so-called honour-based violence in Britain, a campaigner has warned. Deeyah Khan, whose documentary about the victim of an \u201chonour\u201d killing from London recently won an Emmy, called for the police to set up a specialist unit to deal with the problem. The UK-based film-maker, whose parents are from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[37,7,53,4,8,10,31,9],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cultural-stereotypes","tag-forced-marriage","tag-forced-marriage-unit","tag-halo-project","tag-honour","tag-honour-based-violence","tag-victims","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}