Treatment of Women

Treatment of women

Treatment of women

Introduction

Afghan Muslims who come to live in Canada have to face a number of cultural clashes. This situation is not only found in Canada, but it is present in all the western countries of the world. The Muslim girls and women may face different kinds of violence not only in Canada but elsewhere in the world. This is often portrayed by the Western media with metaphors of forced veiling, honor killings and other kinds of violence committed by the male members of the family and their community members. It has been brought into the view of the world that Muslim men are aggressive in terms of their religious and cultural values and norms. They can even kill their most beloved ones if found convicted in the light of Islamic teachings. In various cases girls or women are killed by the Muslim men if they found them not properly dressed or against the teachings of their religion. According to culture of Canada veil is not allowed to worn by women but Islamic principles do not allow women to get out of their homes without veil. Although religion is used to justify violence but the violence based on Islamophobia, racism, poverty and various other factors are not properly addressed according to the Western philosophy. This paper attempts to show the sources of violence faced by the Afghan Muslim families in Canada on the basis of religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation, race and immigration status. Muslims are treated in Canada like pre-Holocaust.

Discussion

Violence against women in Afghanistan is famous all around the world, but the main problem is that it is never in its palpable sense. It is also a well know reality that women in Afghanistan has very limited criteria of enjoying their life with freedom. Certainly, the contemporary history of Afghanistan is in part a record of “power struggles flanked by competing political faction so as to use women's rights as a litmus examination of Islamic legality. This move violently to decide the suitable role and rank of women in Afghan civilization is one of the faultlines that shape a rural-urban, or modern-traditional, divide that goes to the heart of modern Afghan government. According to the census of 2006 about 842,200 Muslims were living in Canada. In Canada, Afghan Muslims are mostly located in Western Canada. (Adams, 2007, p. 8) About 85 Muslim nations and dozens of linguistic and ethno-racial group are living in Canada (Moghissi, Rahnema & Goodman, 2009, p. 84). Muslim youth are highly pressurized by their families to stick to particular values and norms of behavior and it is even stricter for girls.

Afghan men are more possessive when it comes to their wife and daughters; they do not allow them to keep any kind of relation with non-Muslims as according to their religion it's not allowed. If they find their women or daughter in any relationship with any non-Muslim, they can go for honor killing of their own daughter with no ...