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The question has therefore been, what is the root cause of femicide?<\/p>\n
Researches, activists, reporters and victims have all provide different answers which sometimes contradict each other, among other things they seemed to agree that patriarchal is the chief cause of femicide. They share the view that femicide is the sexist violence against women because of a patriarchal system that believes in the inferiority of women themselves.<\/p>\n
In their article, \u201cFemicide: A social challenge,\u201d Corcuello, Corradi, Weil and Boira are convinced that \u201cfemicide is a more than a criminal behavior.\u00a0 It encompasses a cultural, political, legal and penal framework.\u201d Using the trio\u2019s views, this peace chooses to focus on the cultural aspect, because behind culture there is religion, and South Africa is a religious country.<\/p>\n
Referring to Doctor Lucas Ngoetjana, a critical theologian, of the KwaZulu Natal Council of Churches, He argues that South Africa is mainly a society of diversity and religious pluralism. He is convinced that, in search of tools that can help the society to respond to social challenges and encourage moral regeneration, dialogue in the religious sector is needed.<\/p>\n
This peace partially responds to the call for dialogue made by the Doctor Ngoetjana by asking the question:\u00a0 GBV and femicide: Can popular monotheist dogmas and doctrines be questioned?<\/p>\n
Without undermining religious practices, any attempt to respond to the above question, increases the appetite of looking at femicide objectively. This is explained by the fact that cultural and religious believe are very complex when subjected to a social phenomenon such femicide. Drawing from existing data, when femicide is analyzed at global level a very interesting variable pop-ups, monotheism.<\/p>\n
Theologically speaking monotheism is the belief in one God\/god\/goddess. The simplest definition of\u00a0\u00a0 monotheism is the belief in the existence of only one God who created the world, is all-powerful and intervenes in the world. Monotheism as a variable in this discussion gives us another way of engaging in this discussion.<\/p>\n
A plethora of literature shows that femicide is the order of the day in countries where monotheist religions have many followers. It may be not incorrect to hypothesize that in countries like South where most popular Monotheistic religions are very influential, Christianity and Islam, there are highest number of cases of femicide.<\/p>\n
This hypothesis is very well quantified, the top five countries where femicide is at its worst are highly populated by monotheists: Argentina, El-Salvador, India, Honduras and Mexico.<\/p>\n
As far as femicide in monotheist societies is concerned, this hypothesis ignites a very critical question that needs an objective answer: Can popular monotheistic dogmas and doctrines be questioned?<\/p>\n
The answer to this question can be Yes or No, and even perhaps Yes and No at the same time. However It is a mistake to forget that this very same question may not be allowed the conservative monotheistic space.<\/p>\n
For\u00a0\u00a0 most of monotheists, it is a taboo to question their doctrines and dogmas, a sacrilege.\u00a0 In his article titled \u201cDogma, Doctrine, and Theology: What Are They?\u201d Jimmy Akin argues that the word doctrine is derived from Latin word doctrina, which means \u201cteaching.\u201d In the context of this peace, it can be said that doctrines are \u201cteachings derived from God\u201d as Akin would suggest. At same time, the word dogma is derived from Greek word dogma. Akina defines dogma as opinion, in this case Akin\u2019s interpretation is adopted, \u201copinions derived from God.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the understanding of these two concepts which Akin links to God\u2019s wisdom, expecting the above question to be rejected by conservative monotheists is not a miracle. Because the question aimed at questioning the core features of religion, dogmas and doctrines.<\/p>\n
However, despite how biter or sweeter the above question can be statistics which support the hypothesis, societies that are highly populated by monotheists have highest level of femicide may force people to be interested on the question. Without being forced though!<\/p>\n
Statistics in the countries that have highest level of femicide case show that, about 76.5% of Argentines, number 1, are Roman Catholic, 11.3% religiously indifferent, 9% Protestant (with 7.9% in Pentecostal denominations), 1.2% Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, and 0.9% Mormons.<\/p>\n
El Salvador, number 2, Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 36%, other 2%, none 12%.<\/p>\n
According to the 2011 census, 79.8% of the population of India, number 3, practices Hinduism and 14.2% adheres to Islam, while the remaining 6% adheres to other religions; Christianity is the 3rd largest religion in India.<\/p>\n
Honduras, number 4, in recent years, the principal religious groups are Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Jehovah\u2019s Witness, Mennonite, approximately 300 evangelical Protestant groups, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon).<\/p>\n
As of 2010, religious demographics in Mexico, number 5, were estimated as follows, Roman Catholic Christianity 82.7%, other Evangelical Churches 5%, Pentecostal Christianity 1.6% and Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses 1.4%.<\/p>\n
The above statistics makes the analyzed question relevant despite how disgracefully bad or unpleasant it may sound in the mind of some of the members of monotheistic religions.<\/p>\n
Even though this peace\u2019s aimed at initiating a theological conversation the answer would not be necessary the way this peace suggested earlier, the answer would be a paradigm shift in femicide\u2019s mainstream analysis. This is explained by evidences from monotheists\u2019 holly scriptures.<\/p>\n
Monotheistic holly scriptures outlined a clear paradigm that expects to shape any society into a peaceful space for all beings. However, the painful reality is that grass root realities in monotheistic societies provides the opposite of peace, among other evils, femicide!<\/p>\n
The non-smiling facts revealed in most of reports show that in almost every femicide case in the above top five countries, women were trying to leave their relationship. But most women stayed in their dysfunctional hell because they either had nowhere to go or no way to financially support themselves, or they felt that no one would take them seriously in a society dominated by men.<\/p>\n
From these ugly facts, is it relevant to question religious authorities for not preaching anti-femicide messages?\u00a0 Or is it theologically and morally correct to argue that the interpretation of certain monotheistic dogmas and doctrines does create a space for femicide to flourish?<\/p>\n
Dr Riffat Hassan, Pakistani-American theologian and a leading Islamic feminist scholar of the Qur\u2019an, provides an answer to these questions which may directly or indirectly attempt to respond to the main question raised in the title of this peace.<\/p>\n
The theologian feminist scholar, Riffat Hassan argues that one can not necessarily question the dogmas and doctrine because monotheists teachings on the origin of man gives women a second place on earth.<\/p>\n
Using one of the key pillars of holly writings, Dr Riffat Hassan provides a very interesting argument.<\/p>\n
Using professor Farid Esack, a fellow theologian and Islamic scholars\u2019 article titled \u201cThe Unfinished Business of the Liberation Struggle\u201d Dr Riffat Hassan, argues that gender discrimination in religion is based on three theological assumptions, the tree assumptions that may be considered to be the ones that provide oxygen to the existence of femicide:<\/p>\n
Man is God\u2019s primary creature. Women are therefore not only secondary but are derivative of a man since they are created from his rib.<\/p>\n
Woman is blamed for expulsion of man from the Garden of Eden, and as a result all of her descendants are treated with suspicion and contempt that borders on hate.<\/p>\n
Woman was not only created from man, she is also created for him. This means that her existence is only meaningful if it is measured in relationship to that of a man.<\/p>\n
Using the above theological assumptions submitted by Dr Hassan, it can be said\u00a0 that monotheist religions have failed to provide a theological paradigm that would shapes their believers, mostly men, to think outside of the Adam and Eve\u2019s historiography.<\/p>\n
The historiography that dogmatically and doctrinally give men in monotheistic societies, such as South Africa, the uncontested right to believe that women are their divine gift from their omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient and omniscience God.<\/p>\n
Can Popular Monotheistic Dogmas and Doctrines be Questioned?<\/p>\n
Feruzi Ngwamba<\/p>\n
University of KwaZulu Natal, School of Sciences College of Humanities.<\/p>\n
This peace is an update of the one posted in July 9,2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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