‘Honor’ killing comes to the US
By Jeff Jacoby
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | NO ONE knows just how many Muslim
girls and women are murdered each year in the name of family "honor,"
since their deaths frequently go unreported and unpunished. The cases
that do come to light are ghastly. "Women and young girls are set
ablaze, strangled, shot at, clubbed, stabbed, tortured, axed, or
stoned to death," a United Nations report noted in 2004. "Their bodies
are found mutilated with their throat slit, or they are chopped into
pieces and thrown in a ditch."
The report singled out as especially horrifying the honor killing in
Pakistan of "a 16-year-old girl who was reportedly electrocuted to
death after being drugged with sleeping pills and being tied to a
wooden bed with iron chains." Her offense: marrying a boy from the
wrong community. Countless others have lost their lives for refusing
an arranged marriage, wearing Western-style clothing, having a
boyfriend, or even being raped.