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

[iverglas]

57. I didn't call it a crime of passion

I, and others more learnèd than you, have drawn the analogy to "crimes of passion" -- the various excuses that various cultures offer to men who commit acts of violence against women.

That is not what honour killings are. Calling acts of violence committed against women in particular cultural communities "honour killings" when they are not does no one, including the women, any good.

The Shafia murders were NOT "tied to a cultural concept of women carrying the 'family honour'."

Shafia referred to HIS honour, NOT the family's honour. His choice of words does NOT define the nature of his acts.

This has nothing to do with "PC" and your very use of the noxious term is bizarre.

You have decades of experience at this and that, whatever. I actually have a professional background that includes study of various phenomena that are related to real honour killings: trafficking in women, forced marriage, rape as a weapon of war, and like that. Perhaps my concern for women who are the victims of such phenomena is the agenda/motive on my part that you asserted.

I will now look for edit/clarification of your previous post, which you have now had time for.