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In reply to the discussion: Two girls murdered in Texas taxi: Were they honor killings? [View all]arely staircase
(12,482 posts)8. yeah, 'honor' doesn't belong in the term for what this is nr
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One wonders if the victims of the Charleston church shooting would have agreed with that sentiment..
LanternWaste
Jun 2015
#6
I shit on your post. "Crimes of Passion" are between jilted LOVERS, not dads and their daughters
Pooka Fey
Jun 2015
#14
Okasha: "This behavior is not exclusive to Islam or to Third World cultures."
Pooka Fey
Jun 2015
#16
"I know how to invent an "Honor Killings" equivalent for the WEST - A new MADE UP word!!!
Pooka Fey
Jun 2015
#52
"Honor" killings are perpetrated because the killer believes the women are being unchaste.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jun 2015
#41
A USA dad can "honor kill" his daughter for refusing the husband he picked for her? Really?
Pooka Fey
Jun 2015
#50
You are giving cover to the asshole honor besmirched killers here in the US. Why?
boston bean
Jun 2015
#40
So now we're broadening the topic to include the entire subject of violence against women?
whathehell
Jun 2015
#56
Um, no. American and European families of non-Islamic heritage don't murder their kids for "honor"
whathehell
Jun 2015
#59
Family annihilators kill because they feel they are no longer the head of the household.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jun 2015
#42
I guess I see the "sin" in the Islamic case as secondary: he does it from shame
Recursion
Jun 2015
#51