The biggest crock of a sentence in this article:
"Honour killings have nothing to do with Islam"
Yeah, right.
Maybe not....
I think it has more to do with an @ss-backward culture than it does with Islam.
Honor killings are unknown or rare in a number of Muslim countries.
They are common in a number of countries and cultures that are not Muslim.
For example, honor killings are frequent in Hispanic cultures.
Of course, they usually kill the seducer of their sister or daughter, rather than their own family member, which makes a whole lot more sense to me.
Not to start a brush fire here.... We have honor killings every day in America.... What else would call a murder-by-way-of-abortion that takes place because someone doesn't want her family (or his family) to know a child now exists (though not out of the womb, yet) as a result of sexual activity? Or the older woman/man who doesn't want to deal with an additional life - they wouldn't think of letting it live and giving it up - because it would make them look bad to their own circle of friends....Sounds an awful lot like a 'honor killing,' if you take off the rose colored glasses...
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