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Honor killing is the barbaric practice of murdering a woman in order to restore a family's "honor" after the woman had "dishonored" it through real or imagined sexual misconduct. Especially distasteful to Western Christians, Jews and also Atheists and Agnostics, is the idea that even a victim of rape is considered to have brought dishonor and will be punished in this way.

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  • Honor killing is the barbaric practice of murdering a woman in order to restore a family's "honor" after the woman had "dishonored" it through real or imagined sexual misconduct. Especially distasteful to Western Christians, Jews and also Atheists and Agnostics, is the idea that even a victim of rape is considered to have brought dishonor and will be punished in this way.
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  • Honor killing is the barbaric practice of murdering a woman in order to restore a family's "honor" after the woman had "dishonored" it through real or imagined sexual misconduct. Especially distasteful to Western Christians, Jews and also Atheists and Agnostics, is the idea that even a victim of rape is considered to have brought dishonor and will be punished in this way. * Anthropologist James Emery found that, "Palestinian culture continues to equate the value of a woman's life to her inviolable purity. Whatever her progress, ancient traditions still engulf her. Should she become the unfortunate victim of rumor or rape, she'll be sacrificed, just as her ancestors who swept across the Arabian Desert sacrificed sheep and other animals in the name of honor and Islam." The practice is especially prevalent in highly traditional societies, ranging from Islamic communities of the Middle East to Catholic Brazil and Eastern Orthodox Greece. When these people migrate to Western Europe or the United States or Canada, they sometimes bring these traditions along or tolerate their fellow immigrants who commit an honor killing. . * Most schools of Islamic jurisprudence legitimate the killing by the family of a married person caught in the act of adultery. Under Syrian law, an honor killing is not murder. * "Mahmud Ahmad Ghazi, director of the International Islamic University in Islamabad, was interviewed in a BBC film on the honor killing of women, in which Pakistan has established a sad record. Ghazi coldly defended those feudal practices as Islamic, an opinion Islamic scholars all over the world mostly dispute." * "We know of some women who are pushed to become suicide bombers," says Yariv Ovadia, consul for communications and public affairs with the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles, California. "If you dishonor your family, you will be killed anyway, so you can save something of your honor by becoming a suicide bomber. (ibid) * Honor killings are sanctioned in the Qur'an ... in Islamic prophetic tradition and law in general, there is a very strong presumption of women’s chastity along with numerous safeguards to prevent any imputation of unchastity. However if that chastity is broken --the Qur'an and Hadiths have a strong resolution -death by stoning.
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