Shafia trial jurors find family guilty of 1st-degree murder

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17. "I think it shows that honor killings can and do happen in North America"

Or put another way, it shows that misogyny and violence against women and familial violence and killing as a way of exerting patriarchal control happen in every culture and are perpetrated by people of every religion.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2011/04/21/calgary-louie-trial-verdict.html
On the night of Nov. 27, 2009, James Bing Jun Louie, 44, used a rope to strangle his son Jason, 13, and a pillow to smother his daughter Jane, 9.
Louie then tried to strangle his wife Ying Tang as she arrived at the couple's former home in the city's northwest.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20031002/jay_handel_verdict_031001/
A British Columbia father who killed his six children has been found guilty of first-degree murder.
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20030929/handel_court_sane_20030929/
Jay Handel killed his six children as part of a dark plan to crush the soul of his wife Sonya, a B.C. Supreme Court jury heard Monday.

... on a quick google in Canada. Just for a start in the US:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/03/27/MN11348.DTL
A retired Santa Clara County sheriff's deputy, distraught over the breakup of his marriage, fatally shot his young daughter and three stepchildren yesterday in their Merced home before turning the gun on himself, authorities said.

"Distraught", my ass. Seriously pissed off, just like Mohammad Shafia.

"Honour killings" themselves, in their actual historical and cultural context, are a complex phenomenon.

This multiple homicide had nothing to do with honour killing, and everything to do with a power-hungry, woman-hating patriarch. You find them everywhere.