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To: Pessimist
I didn’t know they had their own tradition of that too.

Honor killing is not a Muslim tradition - it's common in patriarchal cultures throughout the Third World. Even Palestinian and Lebanese "Christians" sometimes do it.

5 posted on 07/20/2010 7:01:33 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

The ones described here concerns communal endogamy, which the tribe mentioned considers to be the equivalent of incest.


6 posted on 07/20/2010 8:52:38 AM PDT by James C. Bennett
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