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Originally Posted by Fast Forward
I speak 7 languages, 4 of them fluently and the others "good enough to get around". Tell me what language you speak and maybe we can come to an agreeable understanding with one another.
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I don't really care to respond to the rest of your posts. English is my first language. What's yours? I assume you're fluent in Icelandic or Thai, with all your 7 languages?... if so, feel free to PM me. I'd also appreciate you answering a couple of my questions asked earlier, such as which country you live in.
As for the rest of the posters, I don't think any one of us is condoning this behavior. Murdering people is wrong. But there is no one single ethnic or religious group who has the corner market on murder, or even on honor killings. Even Italians were doing it not very long ago. No one should get off scot-free from murdering anyone, in any ethnic group.
That doesn't mean we can't consider the bigger picture of what's going on, and to try and understand why people behave the way they do, even if you don't like it. That's called cultural relativism. It's not EXTREME relativism, which is what a good deal of you are chalking it up to be. There is a big difference between the two ideas, and anyone who took any kind of basic anthropology course worth its salt ought to have learned that. If you haven't taken a course like that, then that'll be our next area of discussion on this thread.
Just because you are trying to understand another way of thinking does not mean that you approve of it. How difficult is that to understand?