an honor killing in syria

[rm]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/magazine/23wwln-syria-t.html

Comments

[lakme.livejournal.com]

Honour killing, my lily white fanny. The girl had been raped!

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I have no words for that. My sincere hope is that the influence of secular Western media continues in that nation and that in a decade or two people in their 20s and teens will look back at the horrors of the past with utter disgust. It's also difficult for me to read such an article and see organized religion, not Islam in particular, but every organized religion as anything other than a blight upon humanity.

[coriander.livejournal.com]

This is so seriously messed up. This is one tradition/custom that I can't understand.