The Importance Of Honor Killings In The Film: Honor Diaries

part of the world” (Women in the Sun 5). He also brought together 400 women and discouraged them from listening to the Women’s Model of Parliament, which encourages women to end the hostility women face. Unfortunately, protests against this film for being Islam phobia caused this film to end it’s broadcast.
Honor Diaries, produced 2014, focused on the treatment of women in Muslim majority countries, specially the issue of honor killings. The film was based on the narratives of nine women, activists for women’s rights in Muslim committees in various parts of the world. These women experienced or had members of the family that experience ill treatment in Muslim communities. The film focuses on the importance of honor, in which the Islamic principles are grounded upon. The way the women dress, act, and who she marries must bring honor to not only the their families but to their communities as well. Depending upon the stringent values of family and the country, a woman would be killed by her family or the community if she acts out of her place. Some of these attacks including pouring acid, cutting the nose and ears of women, stoning them to death, etc. Honor killings are more of a cultural practice than it is religious practice since it is not mentioned in the Quran directly. However, we do see texts within the Quran

Honor practices, wife battery and early child marriage mentioned in the Quran have become a commonplace and an accepted practice. These are all practices that hurt and degrade women by questioning the their ability to be pure. The Quran only mentions that a woman can maintain her purity by wearing a modest dress. However, in the narrative mentioned in Submission, the niece was still raped by her paternal uncle even though she wore a niqab