Comments on: Who Framed Peter Rabbit? All the Publishers Who Bring You Cheesy Knock-Offs http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/who-framed-peter-rabbit-all-the-publishers-who-bring-you-cheesy-knock-offs/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: heehler http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/who-framed-peter-rabbit-all-the-publishers-who-bring-you-cheesy-knock-offs/#comment-828 Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:26:07 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/who-framed-peter-rabbit-all-the-publishers-who-bring-you-cheesy-knock-offs/#comment-828 I suspect she means it literally, and not metaphorically. Which is to say, how could the West ever hope to coexist with cultures so wanting, that they would sanction the killing of their own wives and daughters in the name of honor? Are we to assume that these Islamic men would treat those they deem as “infidels” any better?

Moreover, the extreme practice of honor killings seems to frame the role of women in such a way as to enable the less extreme , yet more widespread practice of marginalizing whole populations of Islamic women. Is it a coincidence that societies which have evolved to welcome and receive the contributions of “all” their citizens are markedly more successful than those which have not? If Islamic resentment of other more successful cultures is the root cause of terrorism, and Islamic societies are less successful because one half their populations are kept barefoot and pregnant, then the Islamic practice of honor killings could literally very well be the most important issue we face in the 21st century.

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/who-framed-peter-rabbit-all-the-publishers-who-bring-you-cheesy-knock-offs/#comment-823 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:12:50 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/who-framed-peter-rabbit-all-the-publishers-who-bring-you-cheesy-knock-offs/#comment-823 What an interesting point. I hadn’t considered that Hirsi Ali might be using the “honor killings” as a metaphor for something larger, or a directional signal. The problem is that if she’s thinking that way, she doesn’t express the connection as clearly as you do (though the book does deal with 9/11 and related events).

]]> By: heehler http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/who-framed-peter-rabbit-all-the-publishers-who-bring-you-cheesy-knock-offs/#comment-822 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:21:43 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/who-framed-peter-rabbit-all-the-publishers-who-bring-you-cheesy-knock-offs/#comment-822 But Jan, when you think about it, the very notion of killing a woman in the name of “honor” strikes me as eerily similar to the idea of killing a movie director considered to be scornful of Islam. It would seem to be the same mentality that would sanction the killing of thousands of New Yorkers as retribution for the basing of U.S service members on holy land in Saudi Arabia. It could even be the very same mentality that would justify the detonating of an Iranian thermo nuclear device somewhere in Israel. In this respect, the Islamic practice of killing women in the name of honor may in fact have more global significance than we might first have thought. She might be on to something here.

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