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Originally Posted by willravel
As someone who not only is friends with many devout Muslims, but has read the Qu'ran a great deal, I can tell you with great confidence that this barbaric behavior is not Islam anymore than burning a woman at the stake for witchcraft is Christianity.
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This is true, except Christians no longer burn women at the stake. This may not have a religious cause, but it certainly has a cultural one.
The United Nations Population Fund estimates that the annual worldwide total of honor-killing victims may be as high as 5,000 women. Morocco: Article 418 of the Penal Code states "Murder, injury and beating are excusable if they are committed by a husband on his wife as well as the accomplice at the moment in which he surprises them in the act of adultery."
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Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 08-27-2007 at 03:54 AM..
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