Muhammad Ali, Efrîn, Southwest Kurdistan
In
less than one year, ten girls have been shot or slaughtered in Afrin
region in southwest Kurdistan under the pretext of honor retaliation
or preservation. These accidents have brought to the minds of
intellectual people the miserable situation that we, the Kurds are
living in against the situation of our ancestors, unfortunately, with
customs permeated into our society; we have derogated the sacred and
the pride position of the Kurdish woman, and violated its right of
living and equality.
Undoubtedly, the phenomenon of woman killing under the pretext of
preserving the honor of the family, is vicious and notorious idea, The
Kurdish woman has always been the source of Kurdish pride and the
spine bone of Kurdish family, it is she, who breeds brave Kurds,
brings them up and teaches them the virtues of preserving their
identity, and sacrificing for the freedom of their people and nation.
With all these favors and deeds, should we reward her by cheaply and
inhumanly killing her, on the Islamic law and way, by stabbing or
beheading her?.
When
we look into the history of our nation, we will readily discover that
these bad customs have come from the outside of our society, and
specially from Islam - the religion that passively effected all
aspects of our daily habits, for instance, The Kurdish woman has
played a major role in our social, economic and political life, even,
the most celebrated Kurdish episode and epics has given a principal
role to the woman, and when we look into the love stories of Kurdish
people, we will easily see this reality, from Zinê as a main character
in the episode of mem û zînê, and Siyaben û Xecê….etc. So has been the
Kurdish woman’s role in the vivid braveness military acts, and Leyla
Qasimlo, and Adêla Xanim, who presided CAF clan in Halabcha region for
more than fifteen years, in the course of them she was, the leader,
the diplomat negotiator and the compassionate mother that enjoyed the
respect of her clan men and women, youngers and elders, by the way she
was Shex Mahmoud Hafid brother’s wife.
But
today when we look into our Muslim Kurdish society, not our Ezdi’s, we
will see the miserable situation that the woman has reached, she is
deprived from all of her rights, her role is restricted to the daily
household duties, such as washing, cooking…, and even in its sexual
intercourse, she is deprived from having just and natural pleasure,
that effects the whole character of ensued life.
Now
when we want to diagnose this phenomenon that inflicted Kurdish
community, we shall find that there are three major factors that
influenced and resulted this phenomenon. First of all, the spreading
of Islam among the Kurds, and due to long time of close-minded,
created an atmosphere in which the Kurds have lost their original
customs and acquired strange and foreign customs that do not suit
neither their way of living nor their mentality, and this
contradiction caused the emergence of new mixed customs, but of course
ascended by the effect of the conquerors’.
The
second factor, is the profound slumber of ignorance that spread in
Kurdistan, after all Kurdish instructional institution were looted and
destroyed by the conquerors, from Arabs, Persians and Turks;
consequently, the Kurdish instructional system was completely replaced
with religious institutions, that do not teach anything but poisonous
ideas from despotism, chauvinism to extremism and racial segregation.
The
third factor is the ruinous economical situation that struck the
Kurdish society, and systematically imposed plans by the Islam state
first, and then boosted by the sharers of Kurdistan occupation.
Because it is known that the poverty is the box of all deficiencies,
then the all these deficiencies were deeply planted in the Kurdish
society and with time passing became an essential part of this
society.
Beside these three major factors, we should not forget the negative
role of Arabs’ and Muslim’s drafted constitutions, these constitutions
that save the criminals of what is called, honor retaliators, and the
terms that preserve the right of honor retaliators are seen in the
constitutions of turkey, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia …etc.
Along
with aforementioned factors, there are brutal people, who exploit
these gaps in the laws of their states, to fulfill personal
interests, there are people who kill their sisters or mothers under
the label of honor redressing to steal their inheritance or prevent
her form asking for it, and the ten cases of honor killing that I
mentioned above in the Afrin region are all of this kind, non of them
stems from honor aspects, all of them related to the matters of
inheritance, or girl’s asking for her father’s properties as a legal
right.
In
his Book “the Kurds, Historical and sociological study” the celebrated
Russian Kurdiologist, Basily Nikkitin, addresses “I think that the
Kurdish woman would play a principal role in the renaissance of the
Kurdish nation”, but with such a miserable situation, I doubt that The
Kurdish woman will ever be able to play a tiny role in any future
Kurdish resurgence, if she is going to be treated this manner.
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