Thread: Honor killing and the difference in cultures.

Not wanting to hijack the recent thread on the beheading in Buffalo,NY I am posting another thread on the question of "honor killing" The beheading thread brought to mind this report I heard on NPR back in 2005 concerning "honor killing" in Iraq .

It is eight minutes long and you can listen to it here . When I heard the murderer of poor Fatima say that the family couldn't have held their head up unless he had done what he did I knew that our cultures were so far apart that it is unlikely we would ever find a peaceful co-existence.

For my culture and I hope yours killing Fatima would have been the dishonorable action. How do we "win" and bring democracy to people who have a mindset such as this ?