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

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24. like I said

It may have to do with "honour killings" as the west chooses to define that term, and as some men exploit it. It does not have to do with the true phenomenon of honour killings.

The distinction you assert between "a man thinking he has complete control over the lives of his children or step-children, and can thus kill them as well as killing himself" and cases like the Shafia murders is one without much difference, in my opinion. Men kill their wives and/or children in the west without killing themselves. And a "father's hatred for the daughters because of their behaviour" can hardly be characterized as anything but "a man thinking he has complete control over the lives of his children".

The west excuses misogynist violence against women in many ways. The man in the random case I cited was "distraught" over the breakdown of his marriage. A man who kills an adulterous wife does it "in the heat of passion". A man who goes to a public place and guns down random women, whether because they allegedly prevented him from becoming an engineer (Marc Lépine) or because women in general failed to provide him with the sexual relationships he deserved (George Sodini), etc., "snapped". Men do these things; socially agreed excuses are provided for them. Everywhere.