I SHOULD HAVE HONOR
by Khalida Brohi
is an autobiographical memoir of a Pakistani girl/woman who grew up in Tribal Pakistan. Her self-revelation is a testament to what is possible no matter the odds With courageous activism Khalida gives voice to women and girls who are denied their very lives by a male-dominated culture. Here are powerful first-person stories of Tribal Pakistan and the injustices faced by all females there. She explores this entrenched social custom with insight and determination. She reveals the hideous side of "murder" for (cultural) honor. She shares her escape from a fate as a child-bride, through the assistance of an understanding father/mother who dare to risk living counter-culturally at the risk of their own lives. A devout believer in God, she exposes a different perspective of a non-fundamentalistic Islam that shares much in common via the Muhammed, Jesus, Moses, etc.
I am midway through in my reading. As a Christian man, a father and a widower, I find her story a terrible tragedy. an unimaginable devaluation of females that God created with equal honor to that of men. The injustice is horrendous and I greatly admire her honesty, her insight, and her persistence in pursuing truth.
There is much to be learned from writers like this educated Muslim lady who is spending her life lifting up downtrodden Muslim women/girls and bridging understanding and better relationships between Eastern and Western cultures.
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Be blessed one and all.
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