Honour killings

The clash of cultures leads to these barbaric killings. It is very hard as a Western person to understand the thought processes that underpin the ideas that a woman is property, and that she marries to benefit a families status, and has no real choice in the matter. Young women who have been brought up in the UK face being between a rock and a hard place - and those brave enough to make their own choice face being brutally killed by those people who say they are there to 'protect' them. In this case the brother said 'We only allow marriage within the family'. I am pleased that those responsible have been sentenced to 20 and 10 years in jail, but there is SO much more work to be done to make sure no other woman is killed just because she loves the 'wrong' man...

'You're not my mother any more,' shouted Samaira. Then her family killed her