In the text “Take the honour out of killing“, the author Fareena Alam attempts to give us and generally all reader insight into a world of religious fanaticism, where arranged marriages, honour killings and genital mutilation of women are facts of life. Fareena Alam admonishes the reader of the danger of misinterpreting these brutal acts, which principally affects women, as a part of Islam, and that the problems are actually common in a lot of other religions. In this text we have an example of Anita Hindha, a 22 year old woman who was strangled to death in front of her 19-month-old son for renouncing the Indian religion Sikhism. To deal with these threats, many women seek help and some are even given new identities, but as Fareena Alam points out, the police feel incompetent to properly root up the problem in fear of being accused of racism and Islamophobia.
2. Outline of attitudes to fanaticismFareena Alam, the author of Take the honour out of killing, describes the general attitude of fanaticism as a mixture of fear and anger. Many young people who belong to the new generation of British Muslims are simply terrified at the thought that their own family turning against them if they act against the religion of which rules and laws their parents and siblings may fanatically follow. To find the repository of the fanatic beliefs, a person would probably have to look at the original immigrants and perhaps even the communities they once belonged to. Such a community would carry out brutal acts, but saw them as necessary to uphold or complete the reputation and honour of a family. The problem, as Fareena Alam describes it, is that in many cases new immigrants managed to create similar communities in the countries they immigrated to, making sure that people in the future are following the rules as well
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