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In reply to the discussion: Two girls murdered in Texas taxi: Were they honor killings? [View all]Pooka Fey
(3,496 posts)25. It takes a herculean effort to clean up after your falsifications
and outright fabrications. I see what you've done in your post 23, so I will point it out publicly.
It's refusing to give those other cultures a pass, as the person I was responding to seems quite insistent on doing.
You've just claimed in writing that I, Pooka Fey, have tacitly defended CHILD MURDER when it happens in the West. This is not only false, it is a truly schizophrenic assertion.
No intellectually honest person would assert that, by my action of DENOUNCING the ME and Asian cultural practice of "honor killings", I have ACCEPTED, that I have "given a pass", to filicide, murder of a child by his or her parents as it has been known to occur in Western cultures though is by no means a common or regularly occuring practice.
Your Post 23 is an example of insanity in action and in the printed word. That such an outlandish statement would appear IN WRITING on a public message board means that we have left the world of the RATIONAL and entered the world of pure IDEOLOGY.
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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