Chachacha brought up the religious element of the honor killings in Germany, except that the article focuses on the cultural elements of it. It's a tribal tradition not so much a religious one. These honor killings happen because it has been done in these small communities some of whose members have immigrated to Germany.

It is like trying to defend blood feuds-- which have occurred since people starting writing things down-- based upon whatever religion happens to be in that society at the time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feud

"In the ancient Hebraic context, it was considered the duty of the individual and family to avenge evil on behalf of God. The executor of the law of blood-revenge who personally put the initial killer to death was given a special designation: go'el haddam, the blood-avenger or blood-redeemer (Book of Numbers 35: 19, etc.). Six cities of refuge were established to provide protection and due process for any unintentional manslayers. The avenger was forbidden from harming the unintentional killer if the killer took refuge in one of these cities. As the Oxford Companion to the Bible states: 'Since life was viewed as sacred (Genesis 9.6), no amount of blood money could be given as recompense for the loss of the life of an innocent person; it had to be 'life for life'" (Exodus 21.23; Deuteronomy 19.21)'." From the Wikipedia "Feud" article.



My point in bringing up The Bible is that even though it is a Holy Book it is still the work of probably hundreds of people over 3000 years. So, you find the same kind of tribal thinking within some of the writers of The Bible.

Pac refers to some of the Republican posters on TOTV ganging up on more liberal posters and attributing them positions they never took. It has happened again and again on these TOTV political boards. So much so that it is not much fun to even look at these boards, let alone post on them.