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Originally posted by AnonAlumna
I don't really know that much about Islam, but I did recently read an article about 'Honor Killings' among Muslims. Is that part of their religion too?
...just curious...
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Religion no.... culturally yes...
The punishment of
men and women for premaritial intimate contact is 100 lashes, the punishment for adultery for again both
men and women is stoning - only to be administered by the religious/state authority (think religious police).... and for people that think this is wrong or barbaric - take a gander at the Bible/Tanakh and imagine if there was a organized religious police here in the west... or that a nations laws were based solely on the Bible/Tanakh.
Whereas the practice of honour killing, ie. the killing of a woman for "dishonour" (men can also be technically be killed as well, but very rarely) is actually contrary to the Sharia as a extra-legal punishment... and is really a hold over from tribal common law/honour system - a system that many cultures besides "Middle Eastern" possess... for example Honour Killings have a long history in the Indian subcontinent, as well as a prehistoric history in Northern Europe.