Your Thinking. Your Choice

This topic makes me think about how the men who commit the crimes and the families of the victims feel about honour killings. I could not even imagine any of my family members being killed because the committed an act of dishonour. The way society works in different parts of the world is amazing and the interpretation of religion is very different. For example an american Muslim will read the Qua-Ran and think that women are just as equal as men where as a Muslim in Pakistan will read the same teachings and interpret them in a very different way. Very rarely will you hear about honour killings in Western society but when they do occur the punishment is very sever because of the way we enforce our laws. We do our best in Western society to stop any kind of violence against women especially when it comes to murder