why are we Arabs telling the Western press that honor killing is cultural, that it is not really part of Islam? Our way of life is based on maintaining our honor. And make no mistake about it: a woman does tarnish her family's honor by engaging in pre-marital sex, or by getting herself raped, when she seeks divorce and when she marries against her family's
Statistically, most honor killings are Muslim on Muslim murders:
In the West, such murders are mainly done by Muslims (it is a Muslim-on-Muslim crime)
Hence, if non-Muslims were truly anti-Muslim, wouldn't they just ignore honor killings in the expectation that Muslims would just kill each other off?
UPDATE
Apparently, the recent beheading in Buffalo, NY wasn't an honor killing. It was all the fault of corrupt American KKKulture & Starbucks.
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This post has caused many thoughts to leap to mind, but I've had a bugger of a time putting words to them. I guess the shortened version would be:
ReplyDelete1. Man-on-man violence among Muslims has been all too common through the centuries. There's very little I can do about it, so why should I care?
2. Man-on-woman violence among Muslims has been all too common through the centuries. There's very little I can do about it, so it P*SSES ME OFF!
3. This dissonance probably makes me some kind of hypocrite but I don't really care.
innominatus is SEXIST!!!/sarc
ReplyDeleteEven though it's un-PC to think, man vs man is usually more of a fair fight physically than man vs woman.
See links under 'Honor/Shame culture', 'Humiliation' and 'Women' at The Religion of Peace™ Subject Index.
ReplyDeleteI saw on your website, kwelos, that you have a link to "Godel's Incompleteness Theorem". Have you ever read Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher, Bach"?
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