MissZooropa
Refugee
Don't know if this is the right word in english but I will try to explain.
Yesterday a 26 year old woman got shot to death by her father after several years of abuse and threats by her brothers and fathers because she fell in love with the wrong man, a swede. The family is from from Turkey and are curds (right?). The family has lived in Sweden for about 20 years and a few years ago she met a swedish guy that she fell in love with and after that her life has been a hell. Her father and brothers have several times tried to kill her, they have threathened her and a few months ago she got a secret identity and just had to move away. But yesterday she went to say goodbuy to some friends and her father showed up at the apartment and shot her. A so called honory murder.
We have freedom of religion in Sweden but we also has a law that says that you are not allowed to kill. In their religion they are allowed to kill someone that goes against the religion, as this woman did. This has happened before here and it has been huge discussions about what punishment the murderer would get. Because according to them, they are innocent, she did a crime, by falling in love with the wrong man and according to their religion her male relatives are allowed to kill her. If they lived in turkey, they would probably not get any punishment at all but here, living in Sweden where you are allowed to practice any religion you want we end up in a tricky situation.
Are you allowed to practice your religion as long as it doesn't goes against the rest of our laws, if so, we don't really have a freedom of religion any more. And if you get an easier punishment because you have different religion, we are not equal to the law any longer.
Of course I don't defend this, killing is wrong but I see how this can be a problem, two laws going against each other.
What do you think? What is your reaction to this? Is it solveable?
Yesterday a 26 year old woman got shot to death by her father after several years of abuse and threats by her brothers and fathers because she fell in love with the wrong man, a swede. The family is from from Turkey and are curds (right?). The family has lived in Sweden for about 20 years and a few years ago she met a swedish guy that she fell in love with and after that her life has been a hell. Her father and brothers have several times tried to kill her, they have threathened her and a few months ago she got a secret identity and just had to move away. But yesterday she went to say goodbuy to some friends and her father showed up at the apartment and shot her. A so called honory murder.
We have freedom of religion in Sweden but we also has a law that says that you are not allowed to kill. In their religion they are allowed to kill someone that goes against the religion, as this woman did. This has happened before here and it has been huge discussions about what punishment the murderer would get. Because according to them, they are innocent, she did a crime, by falling in love with the wrong man and according to their religion her male relatives are allowed to kill her. If they lived in turkey, they would probably not get any punishment at all but here, living in Sweden where you are allowed to practice any religion you want we end up in a tricky situation.
Are you allowed to practice your religion as long as it doesn't goes against the rest of our laws, if so, we don't really have a freedom of religion any more. And if you get an easier punishment because you have different religion, we are not equal to the law any longer.
Of course I don't defend this, killing is wrong but I see how this can be a problem, two laws going against each other.
What do you think? What is your reaction to this? Is it solveable?