”Honour Killing”is not a Christian thing. It's not a Jewish thing. It's not a Hindu thing. It's not a Budhist thing. It's a Muslim thing. Naturally, that doesn't mean that all Muslims agree with the pratice. But no matter how you look at it, it is Muslims (Arabs in particular) who commit ”Honour Killings”. To say it out loud is a exercise in the obvious. And to deny it is ridiculous. Do you really think that Arabs, or any Muslims, would take offense in that fact of knowledge? Members of this board seem to think that they would!
Had any one individual from that "culture" come forward to call me out on my original comments, the two of us would have come to an understanding whereby neither of us would have felt offended. My original comments were directed to those cultures that sanction ”honour killings” but it would be wrong to believe that all persons of such a culture would disagree with my damnation of such crimes. To believe that would be
EQUALLY racist as to believe that each and every person of that culture is guilty of the crime.
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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
My clumsy guess is that he means that it's only Muslims who are maniacs in this way, who honor kill family members.
I think he needs to realize that his post needs more precise wording, as it can easily be interpreted to be saying "not all Muslims are maniacs, but all maniacs are Muslims". Which, if that's actually what he meant, is at least naive and probably racist as well.
I do think that you leaped a little with the "all Muslims/Arabs are maniacs" interpretation. I didn't see that in his wording.
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I appreciate both your understanding AND your critisizm.