Honour Killings - the whats, hows and whys...

What am I in denial about? I just put the issue in perspective for you.

It was a clich�. I said it in order to convey to you that the actual numbers of honor killings that take place are extremely small compared to the overall populations of the cultures where the practice may be traditional.

I hope the UN mails these statistics to my house. I would like to inspect them for myself.

You know what else is interesting? That 35,000 Iraqis have perished since the beginning of the invasion of their country. That comes to almost 32 people a day and 224 per week. It would take 8 buddies to count that.

You named five women who may have been the victims of honor killings. As far as I am aware, there is a substantial population of Middle Easterners and Indians in Western Europe and one-half of them would be female � and all you have are the names of five women? That would imply that the practice is not common in any part of Europe.

You had good intentions but you need to be more open-minded. Remember, you are a student to our history � not a judge of our history.

No modern government allows for honor killings as far as I am aware. There are isolated communities where the practice may take place but trust me when I say that the people of these countries are just as shocked as you when they hear of such an act.

It is not as common as you are making it out to be.

I don't have time to go through all your posts. The fact is that some others and I may have been offended by some of your comments � whether your intentions were malicious or not is up for debate. We should all be more careful about the things we say lest we unwittingly offend another person. We are all human beings and as such, we react emotionally to different things. What you may find offensive � I may not, and vice versa, so great care must be taken into consideration when debating sensitive issues.

I am a man of conviction. If I have wronged without cause, then yes, I shall. If I have wronged where I felt it to be just � then I may not. 

@ mamikon

It was insinuated.

Murder is unacceptable under Sharia Law.

The Western media is inherently biased against the Middle East. It's a simple fact. You have felt threatened by us since the Moorish conquest of the Iberian Peninsula and the Turkish threat on your eastern borders.

Then why not afford us the same respect? We too are perfectly fit enough to decide which of our traditions to keep and which to discard.

The very fact that a topic was made and we are discussing it implies as much.

Let us decide how we should live our lives. Aren't there enough problems in the Western world that you would be more qualified to opine on?