Honor Killings are Pathetic

Question: What do you do when your daughter refuses to follow through with the arranged marriage you set up when she was ten?
What do you do when your daughter wants a divorce?

Answer: You kill her for dishonoring you.

Do you agree with this answer? If so you are probably religious and more than likely Islamic and absolutely deserve the death penalty. If you do not agree - congratulations! you are not among the most pathetic group of humans. Although you are pretty far down there if you inoculate young children with religious teachings. Right now the focus is honor killings. I have seen multiple news reports popping up lately regarding honor killings. According to Fox News honor killings may be on the rise in the U.S.

The United Nations estimates that as many as 5,000 women are murdered in such honor killings each year for offenses like immodesty or refusing an arranged marriage

5,000 women. That's a lot. It is absolutely disgusting that some people put their own "honor" before the lives of their family. There is nothing honorable in killing and god is not going to suddenly smile upon you because you killed an adulterer. I think when people commit an honor killing in America they should be killed in return. Why keep such a pathetic excuse for a human alive? The Fox News story highlighted a couples reports of honor killings:

On July 1, Kanwal filed for divorce, a prospect her father, a 52-year-old immigrant from Pakistan, would not entertain. Investigators say that after an argument on the night of July 5, he strangled Kanwal with a bun-gee cord.

Are you disgusted? There are more killings mentioned in the news story - feel free to read at your own leisure.

The Last Psychiastrist wrote an excellent piece on the story of Noor Almaleki, a 20 year old girl who was killed by her father in Arizona. She didn't marry a suitable Iraqi man and after being abused my her parents moved in with another Iraqi family. Her father just couldn't handle the MASSIVE shame. So he ran her and her friend over with his Jeep - twice. As The Last Psychiatrist said:

He doesn't care that she's Americanized or even an adulteress. He cares that people are laughing at him. This is narcissism, and here I do not hesitate to spell it out explicitly. The obvious is that he sees her only as an extension of himself, only as she impacts his own existence and not as an independent entity. He's not better than her, she's just not a fully formed character, she's an extra. But the more telling and scary part of the narcissism is that he thinks that by killing her, he has not merely stopped her but fixed things, erased his shame, as if it never happened. As if the people back in Iraq aren't still snickering, as if human nature and reality are subservient to the magical thinking of a man who believes a Jeep can alter what God already saw.

The same article goes on the mention some more killings in America:

In Texas, teen sisters Amina and Sarah Said were shot dead in 2008, allegedly by their father, because they had boyfriends. That same year in Georgia, 25-year-old Sandeela Kanwal was allegedly strangled by her father for wanting to leave an arranged marriage. Last year in New York, Aasiya Hassan, 37, was murdered in perhaps the most gruesome way imaginable: She was beheaded, allegedly by her husband, for reportedly seeking a divorce. And this past spring, 19-year-old Tawana Thompson's husband gunned her down in Illinois, reportedly following arguments about her American-style clothing.

I don't think honor killings are going to be come an epidemic - they are not going to be common place. However, they occur an despite what people may wish to say - the killings occur for the most part in Islamic communities. Some people say we (non-Islamic) cannot understand because, well we're not Islamic! There is nothing to be understood here - no matter what your religious affiliation is killing your family members because of your narcissism is wrong. Even if your religion sanctions honor killings, they are still wrong. Morality exists outside the realm of man made religion and no matter what a group claims, honor killing is pathetic and it is wrong.

People who engage in honor killings are only hurting their own religion by giving the world a clear example of what can happen when the religion is followed too strongly. If too much of your religion leads to violence - you have yourself a pathetic religion. Not that other religions are not pathetic - yours is just worse.
If that last remark made you mad - just refrain from killing. Besides you deserve it, your religion makes me mad.