Pakistan police on Friday said a father shot dead his daughter after she refused to delete her account on popular video-sharing app TikTok.
In the Muslim-majority country, women can be subjected to violence by family members for not following strict rules on how to behave in public, including in online spaces.
“The girl’s father had asked her to delete her TikTok account. On refusal, he killed her,” a police spokesperson told AFP.
According to a police report shared with AFP, investigators said the father killed his 16-year-old daughter on Tuesday “for honor.” He was subsequently arrested.
Media needs to give a new term to the concept of Pakistani “honor”. Governments are afraid to touch it (esp. the UK govt.) with regard to Pakistanis in particular and Islam. Probably for fear of being victims of ‘honor’ killings themselves given recent history.
Exactly, Australia did this. We used to call hidden punches from the side “king hits”, and now they are called “coward punches”, which is far more appropriate. In the same way that Australian men who do it are absolute cowards, these family members who kill their daughters are absolute filth of humanity.
I don’t know the appropriate term, but it has to be changed.
Yep, unfortunately, media have the right to be afraid following the Charlie Hebdo nonsense, here are some examples of criticisng Islam:
My proposal is “legal cause to slit the dad’s throat in self-defense”.
Well in this case it would have been a 16 year old girl against an adult man with a gun.
Not the best chances for self defense.
Some chance is better than none. If a dude was pointing a gun at me, fully intending to blow my head off, I’d fight him with my bare fists if I had to.
Oh, and adrenaline is a powerful thing. Eye and throat are excellent targets in a fight to the death, and any weapon you can get your hands on is allowed.