Q2:Where did HBV come from?Where did honor killings come from as well?
A2: Let’s shift gears now into History-
The Assyrian laws-, the codes of Hammurabi- allowed violence against women for the expression of her sexuality ( 6000 BCE).
In Numbers 25:6-19, Phineas (figure) kills a man and a woman in a temple for having an interracial marriage.
Guru Gobind Singh, a nuclear force in the Sikh religion claimed that
“whosoever takes food from the slayers of daughters, shall die unabsolved’ . Despite his dislike for people who kill in honor, honor killings are still a very big problem in India, with the followers of this religion commonly being the suspects and the presumed.
In Roman times, the patriarchs had dominion over all- including life or death. When females were to have violated sexual code, fathers were obligated to take action. If not, they were persecuted by friends, or a community.
Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini, the legal code in medieval Albania prohibited the murder of women who committed adultery in “terms of blood revenge’.
Adulterous women were drowned the the Rhône river during John Calvin’s control over Geneva, Switzerland.
In the Chinese Qing dynasty, husbands and fathers had rights to murder their daughter or wife who is being “dishonorable”.
Female abuse related to honor was that of the exchange of young women as a compensation for a male relatives crimes and a levirate across Sub-Saharan Africa. Honor killings and HBV were also documented Southern Mediterranean, including Greece, Spain and Italy right up to the modern era.
