Honor killings

The Independent has unearthed after a 10-month-long probe into
chilling honor killings in the Middle Eastern area that they are
rapidly increasing. Amnesty International suggests that only around
5,000 of these killings happen a year, while other figures suggest
around 20,000 annually.

Sadly, honor killings — the practice of killing someone for something
he/she did wrong to restore honor back to the household, is not
entirely a Muslim practice, like many thought. However, in areas where
it’s practiced, Christians and Hindus have, and are, for the most part
abandoning the brutality.

Yet men and groups in charge of these killings are obviously clinging to their traditions and trying to spread the practice. Worse yet is the brutality through which their people are being killed — for the most part they are women — for reasons that have no solid grounding.

Women have had their limbs cut off, been buried alive, electrocuted, stoned to death, strangled and even beheaded, to name a few atrocities. The logic and justification for this is insane and baffling.

One young woman was buried alive by her father for adultery when she was carrying his baby after he raped her. Another woman, 13 years old, was stoned to death then buried alive after her parents turned her over for what men said was adultery — she was raped by three men.

Should the U.S. maintain its troop presence in that region and end these atrocities?

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