I am Dua Khalil

http://whedonesque.com/comments/13271

The link above is to an essay by Joss Whedon on the recent "honor" (????) killing of 17yo Dua Khalil, while dozens looked on and even videotaped but did nothing to help her. Joss is the creator of (among other things) our much-loved "Firefly" TV series. Here, he gets political—or perhaps simply human.

If you want to watch the horrific video—and maybe we all owe it to this girl to at least look head-on at what was done to her—the video is available here.

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I am Dua Khalil, and I refuse to accept honor killings and the inequality of women as an acceptable status quo.