Honor means: honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions…
To regard or treat
with honor, esteem, or respect; to revere; to treat with deference and
submission; when used of the Supreme Being, to reverence; to adore; to worship.
To dignify; to raise to distinction or notice; to bestow honor upon; to elevate
in rank or station; to ennoble; to exalt; to glorify; hence, to do something to
honor; to treat in a complimentary manner or with civility…
We
could go on telling about the definition of honor but taking a look about what
some of the well-known men once said about honor:
“To
the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever
tracing Newton's ground.” Albert Einstein
“All
the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” Winston churchill
“Life
every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than
life.” William Shakespeare
“You
will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest
quality of the mind next to honor.” Aristotle
But
unfortunately strangely enough the term honor in some communities started to refer to women bodies!!
Since
when and your honor is in your female family members?! Nobody ever described
honor to be that way!!
For
a culture with the majority of its 'well-heard' population are males we see women treated as
inferior since childhood, they don’t have the freedom to be humans as they
should be.. they are tied in their female world apart from freedom and life..
some are tied in ignorance and some are tied in waiting to be married to be
able to continue living their lives.. the sentence: (you’re not a man!) that
hides behind it a lot of other meanings like saying you can’t do this or that!
you can never be independent! your life will never go well till you find a man
besides you! It reached a point that even women can’t see their future unless
it has a man in it.. they themselves feel the inferiority.. they themselves
started to believe they are not good enough for anything without a man!
The
feeling of being less.. the feeling of being afraid of doing anything which
might put them in a position when no man would “accept” marrying them; which
means for them and their families the end of their “good” lives or progresses!!
They
are even treated without justice and accept it because of being afraid of what
other people would say!!
Even
the divorce is considered a shame!! The way of their clothing or talking could
bring shame to the whole family.. even raising their voices or appearing as
independents are considered to bring shame to the family because they are shown
to make the female lose her modesty and chastity!!
Their
successes are nothing when it has no man in it.. Their whole lives are nothing
if it doesn’t contain a name of a man in it!!
Daily
suffer.. daily struggle.. daily killing and daily oppression… that’s the life
for the majority of women in some places in the middle east with less opportunities and less
lives..
But
all of that could be considered nothing compared to the nightmare called “honor
killings”!!
Daily
news.. daily stories and daily struggle we hear everyday where women are killed
just because their father or brother saw them walking or talking with a man or
in some other stories just because they took the notebook of their male
colleagues in colleges or schools.. or because they refused to wear a hijab!!
Where
did the human rights go!! Where did the sacred lives go!! Where did your honor
go!!
Honor
does Not mean by any dictionary or book or definition “female family member”
and it will never be but for that matter it is in the eyes of some men!
The
life of the females are becoming worthless.. their lives.. their future their
hopes or wishes are nothing in the eyes of males… it’s not a joke of any kind
it’s the daily fear the daily struggle for these women!! Their lives could be
ended just because they said “Hello” to any male colleague or sometimes just because
they started to talk or ask for a change!!!
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