There is a book by US writer Karen Tintori, Unto the Daughters, about the after effects in her family of the killing of one of the women by her brothers. This took place in "Little Sicily" in Detroit. In later years, the place where they killed their sister - a public park - became the favorite place for family celebrations and commemorative photographs. The girl was killed for eloping with her lover, when her family had arranged another match.
In more recent times, there have been quite a number of such crimes in the Sikh community in Britain, and in Australia, too. Also in Australia, a man shot his 12 year old daughter dead, because she wanted to live with her mother, and there was a custody dispute.
I think you underestimate the extent of family violence. In the above case, on this thread, all I see is yet another woman who was killed when she tried to leave her husband. Statistics say that is one of the most risky things to do, anywhere. If her father had killed her for leaving her husband, then that would fit the category of an honor killing.
For God’s sake do you not understand the difference between sharia law and those incidents?
When did the incident you spoke of happen in Detroit? Was it sanctioned by the Catholic church or the laws of Michigan?
let me say ONE MORE TIME, S L O W L Y
yes there have been and will be loons in any country who murder woman in their care. and those people when caught will be prosecuted as they should be. Can the same be said about mislims in muslim countries committing HONOR KILLIGS?
do family killings happen? of course but at leat here in America they are not sanctioned by any church or law. and if the murderer is caught he is prosecuted.
There is NO eqivalency between loons murdering and what muslims do in every muslim country and even in civilized countries in accordance with sharia law.
I ma amazed at the people that seem willing to excuse honor killing by saying, well gee others have murdered family too.
Do any of you who want to excuse sharia law think the rest of us think it is ok for anyone to kill?
NO NO NO but those killers have nothing to do with muslims who kill in the name of their laws.
This is about islam and sharia law NOT about other people who commit heinous crimes.
Exactly, that is my ONLY point. People sometimes act like Islam is the sole cause of all the evils in the world, or all the evils in that culture. Hey, it's the cause of a lot of them, IMHO. But let's be honest... it's not humanity's only problem.