[lit-ideas] Re: British Honor killings

  • From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:39:07 -0000

From: "Paul Stone" <pas@xxxxxxxx>

JE> >how about the parents who shopped their suicide bomber son to the
police?

> Perhaps he should have done a better job of making sure that he dropped
his
> insane culture when he migrated.

His insane culture?


> One man turns in son to police [our kind of honour], one man kills his
> daughter for 'askin for it' [his kind of honour]. So... both were
> honourable, but neither in the opposite milieu.

What makes you think the first isn't honourable in Muslim culture?

Incidentally, two of the bombers had been thrown out of their mosque because
of their Islamist views.

Judy Evans, Cardiff
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