Oh Dear: One in Ten British Asians Believes Honour Killings Are Justified

[DimPrawn]

All this stress.

What we all need is a nice bar of chocolate to relax with.

Enjoy

[Joe Black]

Oh FFS. It just ain't Kosher.

[lilelvis2000]

Are there any documented instances of non-Muslim honour killings?

Honour killings are a cultural problem not a relegious one. I'm sure there were many in English history. But definitely in Japanese Samurai history there were many.

[mcquiggd]

Killing yourself is a little more acceptable than stabbing your daughter as she didn't want to marry a man three times her age that she hadn't met.

[xoggoth]

Never met. Exactly. You put your finger on it there MQ.

While honour killings may be a cultural thing and not a tenet of Islam as lilelvis says, they can only flourish in a society of arranged marriages and those are definitely a tenet of Islam. Is a family really going to kill a daughter because she decided after all not to marry that nice young man she met at the college disco? Of course not, the honour part comes in when the families are disgraced by having their arrangements and understandings scorned.

Honour killings may not be Islamic but they are certainly a product of Islam.