In The Thousand and One Nights and NY Times article, there is a similar theme of individuals having no control over others. For Shahrayar and Shahraman, lamenting their ability to control their women. Sirwan Hama Amin, when her family kills her husband.
Shazaman says, “By God, I am king and sovereign in Samarkand, yet my wife has betrayed me and has inflicted this on me” (B, 409) Shahrayar said, “My brother Sharhzaman, look at this sorry plight. By God, it is worse than the ours. This is no less than a demon who has carried a young woman away on her wedding night, imprisoned her in a glass chest, locked her up with four locks, and kept her in the middle of the sea thinking that he could guard her from what God had foreordained, and you saw how she has managed to sleep with ninety-eight men, and added the two of us to make a hundred. (B, 413)
“She opened the bathroom door and saw her husband covered in blood and one of her brothers aiming a gun at her. ‘I saw only my brother, but someone else shot Aram,’ she said. Before the smoke cleared, gunmen fired 17 bullets into Mr. Rasool’s chest and 4 into Ms. Amin’s leg and hip, General Salih said.” (NY Times article)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/world/middleeast/21honor.html?ref=middleeast
Yuan, your post consists of extensive citations, but it’s hard to evaluate your comparison because you give no context for your citation from the New York Times. When doing this kind of blog post, you must contextualize your citations from the Times within an argument about what makes them comparable to the passages you cite from our course reading.