I find his writing (carefully using “South Asian” as opposed to “Muslim”) repugnant.

Nor do I think a “significant human rights campaign” will do the trick.

Look into this assassin’s face, a man who strangled his 25 year old daughter with a bungee cord after she filed to be divorced from her arranged marriage. Look directly at this man who is currently making a big deal of only having properly prepared Islamic food in jail and who has told the judge he has done “nothing wrong”.

Then you can circumvent all the explanatory verbiage, as well as for parallel father slaughtering daughter stories in Britain, in Canada, in Italy… (In Pakistan, in Saudi Arabia… but some of those may not make “the news”)

And I say besides, that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and turban’d Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduced his state,
I took by the throat the circumcized dog
And smote him, thus. (Stabs himself)

Second, honor killing and domestic violence mask an obsession generally for the female which is DELUSIONal. But in honor murder it is an incestuous obsession and delusion of the tiniest and most vulnerable female. This preprograms the female to expect unconsciously abusive behavior so that when they marry the male abuses them and they don’t realize it is abnormal. In domestic violence for example to take Shakespeare’s Othello who was a Muslim military Moor vs. Desdemona the daughter of an Italian senator – the relationship was not incestuous but Othello was delusional and in his culture abuse of women was normal. What people don’t realize is that delusional jealousy in domestic violence is a known precursor of homicide.

Third, the problem with the media – mainstream colludes and
also play off of the hype the pornography of abuse which is at the heart of the matter. Could we even call it a kind of yellow journalism snuff film?? – I don’t know how to put it
exactly but the sadomasochism of it is huge and unacknowledged.

It spreads into the west b/c it taps into this unspoken universal
sadomasochistic bondage. We know in domestic violence that there is a traumatic bonding between abuser-victim that dates back to early childhood Dutton has written on this extensively and I believe that is why early childhood rearing practices occurring in Arab Muslim cultures and other shame-honor cultures must be put on the table for discussion to better understand the ramifications of its violence — not to excuse it.

So how is the veil of darkness pierced?
How to manifest light amidst all this darkness?

Define light first – as in speaking truth
And sharing in community on a daily basis what needs saying as by Dr. Phyllis Chesler and others whose gifts indeed are the essential weapon – means – that with the help of God – can reverse the insanity that has “normalized” in the world we now live.