He comes from a small town in the southern state. Sania Khan, a Pakistani-American woman who was killed in the murder of her ex-husband Raheel Ahmad, had just moved to Chicago last year. Khan’s divorce from Ahmad was completed in May this year. On his Tiktok profile, Khan, he is a professional photographer, documenting his journey that healing from painful divorce.
Apparently, his public statement about his relationship and the response of the South Asian community to him was very disturbing Ahmad so he drove from Georgia where he lived to Chicago. Then he went to the condominium Khan and killed him. Ahmad seems to have lived in a condominium until he heard the police arrive. The officer at the scene reported hearing the sound of a shot and the voice of a man moaned. Inside, they found Khan’s body lying at the entrance; There was a gunshot wound to the back of his head. Ahmad was in another room with a gunshot wound that was caused by himself. Next to him there is a suicide record.
There is no doubt that Sania Khan lives a complicated life. According to his pillars, his mother remained in a rude marriage because he was afraid of the reaction from the South Asian community in Tennessee. In another post, Khan described the threat made to him by members of the community who opposed his divorce. In some videos, he talks about a constant moral assessment by community members about anyone who does not follow the obedient wife’s rules. Khan has decided to leave all these strictures so that he can wear what he wants and create a new identity for himself. Even though she had received an order to detain her ex -husband, she could come to her and kill her.
Khan’s murder tells a dirty story about the South Asian Diaspora community in the West. Chattanooga, where Khan raised, is a small town: The main tourist attraction is a park called Rock City which is full of strange rock formations. The Pakistani Diaspora community in small places tends to be the most rigid. Because the number of families is not too large, everyone is trapped with others. Even worse, like other diaspora communities, morals and ethos tend to follow norms that are at least 20 years old when most families migrate to America.
Unlike the actual Pakistani culture that has developed in the last two decades, the Diaspora family is accustomed to raising children in accordance with the norms dated and give an assessment to every family that diverts them even a few. Divorce is taboo so that women must choose between whether they want to end a bad marriage and face extreme exclusion and exclusion from the community or remain in marriage and bear the harassment of membership and community support.
Khan chose divorce and rebellion. On his Tiktok profile, he only posted the type of video and photos that were rather obscene that disturbed the guardian of their own style of morality in the Pakistan Diaspora community. He spoke openly about depression that accompanied divorce and how difficult it was to recover from him. It seems that he finally broke away from a relationship and a community that did not allow him to live the life he wanted. Working as a professional photographer who took a wedding photo shoot, graduation, wedding proposal and other happy events, he supported himself and realized his dream as a new woman. All of that, seen in Tiktok, seemed very angry with her ex -husband so she decided to kill her.
After Khan’s murder, there was a focus on the reluctance of the Pakistani community to face the problem of harassment in their circle. Time magazine even chose to include “the South Asian community involved in self -reflection” as part of the title of the article about the incident. The premise is that the Pakistani community promotes a retrogressive version of marriage that demands wives to submit to their husbands and continue to be on their becks and calls. The satire is that Khan will remain alive today if people support women and lacking so men like Ahmad who harass and exploit women.
Hard heart of the South Asian community about divorce problems (which they understand strangely as a very American concept rather than universal) is no doubt. At the same time, it is true that the killing of Khan was also clearly America. In the US, the possibility of a woman killed was the highest after she left the relationship. The violence of intimate couples of the type that killed Khan is the number one cause of death in women under 35. Adding this is the fact that one in five American women reported to be victims of domestic violence.
If these numbers are not burdensome enough, there is a problem due to weapons violence. The ease of procurement of weapons makes it very simple for prospective wives killers to get deadly weapons for their evil plans. Maybe if it’s not easy to get weapons like today in the US, you might still be alive today.
Unfortunately, Femiside is a universal phenomenon. That is the grip of the norms of patriarchy noses that seem to have known how to protect young women who leave harsh relationships. In the week since the murder of Khan has been there at least one more suicide in the US. This last weekend a soldier pursued his wife to a mall where he killed him and then himself. It is very possible that at the time this article was published there would be more. Of all these examples and from the tragic death of Khan, it seems that the world needs to focus on how to save women from the ego of men who are thirsty for blood who will not stop to eliminate women who dare to leave them.
