Korteweg and Yurdakul argue that economic and social forces, combined with the immigrant experience and the integration policies of the receiving countries, contribute to the gendered violence from which some Muslim women in the West suffer. Moreover, when the media focuses on cultural or religious explanations for honor-related violence, it fails to connect the victims of this violence to other victims of gendered abuse and violence. It is worth repeating that in EU countries, one in three women have suffered from physical or sexual assault. In the United States, one in five women have been sexually assaulted, and one in four have experienced violent abuse by an intimate partner. Domestic abuse, and even domestic murder, are realities affecting large numbers of women with a wide range of cultural and religious backgrounds.

XREF: Connects to broader feminist and migration scholarship on how structural marginalization, not culture alone, produces gendered violence. QUESTION: The claim that media framing isolates honor violence from other gendered abuse is a testable media studies hypothesis worth investigating further.

Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Intro…, loc. 513