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Old 08-26-2007, 07:09 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
I think they reckon that there is about 1 of these a week in the UK - a lot of them never even really get reported cos its just portrayed like the girl ran away. Hard to see how you can come to understand your God in a way that finds honour in slaughtering your own children... but people have a lot of funny ideas. I guess it does seem to be that these idea's are concentrated in certain faiths and certain ethnic communities right now... but above and beyond being an ethnic or a religious issue, I think we do need to say it is a "a person being a degenerate fucking piece of shit issue" first of all.
I don't think it's too far a stretch from the fact that you accept someone robbing someone to someone else accepting that their death is honorable reclaiming them from their dishonor.

I think that crimes on their face are deplorable but if this is how the community polices itself within their own belief systems and structures, sucks, but it is what it is. People hiding their stuff behind religious beliefs doesn't make it any more right.
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