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To: faq
These honor killings seem to defy how we expect humans to behave. The normal reaction we would expect from a father is for him to be angry at the boyfriend rather than at his daughter.

That reaction would make sense if the father views his daughter as his daughter. But what if the father views his daughter as something more -- then all of the sudden these honor killings start to make sense in terms of human nature.

The primary emotion no longer is shame, but jealousy. I wonder how often in these situations something much more perverse is going on under the cover of the father upholding 'family honor'.

5 posted on 06/01/2008 11:04:44 AM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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6 posted on 06/01/2008 11:06:31 AM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: vbmoneyspender
But what if the father views his daughter as something more

Actually they're viewed as something less, namely personal property.

These savages aren't worth another single drop of American blood nor another dime of our treasure.

Screw this 'nation building' crap. Kill the bad guys and anyone who gets in our way while we do it.

L

8 posted on 06/01/2008 11:09:30 AM PDT by Lurker (Islam is an insane death cult. Any other aspects are PR, to get them within throat-cutting range.)
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To: vbmoneyspender

If he loved her, he would not have killed her, but the supposed offending male.
But Muslim men seem incapable of loving women, only using and abusing. Thus he was disposing of an offending object.


10 posted on 06/01/2008 11:45:35 AM PDT by tbw2 ("Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell" by Tamara Wilhite - on amazon.com)
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To: vbmoneyspender

Well, when a girl is still unmarried she belongs to her family. Any dishonor on her is a dishonor on the whole family. The only way to cure the dishonor is to kill the source of it - her. Once she’s married, she belongs to another family. Then it’s her husband’s problem. When wives are raped, you are more likely to see the perpetrator killed instead of her because the perpetrator has violated the husband’s property.


16 posted on 06/02/2008 1:31:34 PM PDT by forkinsocket
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