[bluester]

Oh please, as though it couldn't have happened in some non-Muslim family, for whatever reasons....

[another cricket]

Oh please, as though it couldn't have happened in some non-Muslim family, for whatever reasons....

Are there loonies all over the world? Yes. But Jordan is not a big country so three in a week is rather excessive.

Everybody doesn’t do it. And everybody does not have a culture that encourages it. So your argument is rather silly.

I wonder if any of these relations were even arrested.

a.cricket

[AzJP]

There are parts of Mexico, America, and Africa that behave similarly.

The assumption that any of these are representative of a typical religion is as huge a misguided leap is believing that Bill Clinton (or Monica) are epitomies of Christianity and Jew.

[john in missouri]

I'm sure it happens in some other cultures as well, but something is obviously culturally wrong here.

Or would you consider it normal, on a single given day in the United States, that 20 fathers and brothers would throttle, blow away, and hack to death their own daughters and sisters -- for no reason more profound than that said fathers and brothersthought the victims might have had sex with somebody -- in many cases, the person they had already married some time ago?

[FITZ]

The two latest cases raise to three the number of woman slain over the past week in the spate of so-called "honour crimes"

In a non-Muslim family they wouldn't be called "honor crimes", that's the difference. Just like suicide bombers are considered heroes to that religion so are these murderers.

[Mr. Mojo]

Oh please, as though it couldn't have happened in some non-Muslim family, for whatever reasons....

This sort of thing happens all the time in Islamic countries. I challenge you to provide a link to one story where a similiar "honor killing" happened in an American family. Just one.

[ovrtaxt]

as though it couldn't have happened in some non-Muslim family, for whatever reasons

Yeah, but only Muslims call it an 'honor' killing. Any other family would call it a capital crime.