how many of you personally know of any honor killing ?

a valid point and the only thing i might add to that is that MURDER or taking another human beings life is in no form acceptable for whatever reason, it is not right and rightfully condemned. Eventhough i totally understand what you are saying but even that no where can killing someone be justified. I will not go far but i was a fairly disobedient and disrespectful kid in my "teens" but somehow i am still alive and with time i realised things and changed. Those kids maybe needed that opportunity as well which they were not given just cuz their parents could not take the insults from our so called hypocrite society.