Again I read the news and become frustrated and confused. The Guardian (A UK newspaper) is reporting on yet another honor killing.
Honor killings, if you are unfamiliar with them is the process of killing females for disgracing the family. This horrible practice is barbaric and yet it is still practiced by SOME "radical" Muslims today. There have been a couple of high profile news articles on it in the past few months, one in Canada and the other in my neck of the woods, Texas. Both stories were similar. The girls were becoming too "westernized" and were beginning to slip away from the ways the family practiced. All three girls that were killed had non-Muslim boyfriends and wore non-traditional western clothing outside the home. This infuriated the fathers who in turn killed the girls. In the Canadian case, the girl was held down why the father strangled her. In the Texas case, the father shot both daughters and then fled.
My simple question to you all: If you do not want to assimilate to western ways, WHY MOVE THERE?
By the way, if you want to keep up to date with many of the atrocities that radical Islam perpetrates, read, "The Religion of Peace", also know as TRoP. If you do, you will see that I am not as crazy as some think I am.
1 comment:
I'm as opposed to dishonor killings as a person can be.
But they are believed to have their origins in misinterpretations of pre-Islamic Arab tribal codes. They pre-date Islam by centuries and are, in fact, un-Islamic. They have more to do with culture than with faith.
Ellen R. Sheeley, Author
"Reclaiming Honor in Jordan"
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