Re: Non Muslim 'Honour Killing!'
A journalist sitting in London may find context but that is irrelevant unless the criminal him or herself states that they consider it a reason. A random wanker sitting somewhere attributing something to a criminal is retarded and frankly dishonest.
And it goes back to my original question. Show the actual support. Because to date from my knowledge no one involved in Honor Crimes has actually stated that the reason they did it is because Islam allows it.
The "deleted" in question quote academics (some of whom are Muslim) and the UN to explain the social anthropology behind honor killings. When many cases aren't registered let alone investigated, official testimony from honor killers is hard to come by. But to answer your question, the Canadian Shafia family murders is one example.
In wiretapped remarks, Mr. Mohammad Shafia on why he killed his daughters :
"They betrayed humankind; they betrayed Islam; they betrayed our religion and creed; they betrayed our tradition; they betrayed everything."
"Is that what a daughter should be? Would a daughter be such a whore?"
"I'm happy and my conscience is clear. They haven't done good and God punished them."
Source : Global Mail and CBC News
If someone cites religion for their actions, does that indict Islam? Terrorism is justified the same way, and so on. But it's not a mental leap to suggest how someone may validate killing a fornicator to preserve honor/the moral fabric of society when their religion prescribes flogging for the same. Same with the concept of "disciplining" women/wives. My comment that people use religion to garner support for this practice isn't a personal opinion, it was an observation the ICAHK link elaborates on :
"Religion remains an important part in many people’s lives, not least in those societies for ‘honour’ based violence. A majority (but by no means all) of current known cases arise in Muslim cultures or sub-cultures, leading some to conclude that there must be textual backing for the practice, and that therefore an ‘honour’ killing is a religiously mandated murder. Although some ‘honour’ killers do justify their crimes by their religion, many others act in the name of tribal, caste, class, nationalist or other identities. An ‘honour’ killing, seen as an act of vigilante murder, has no support in the key Islamic texts, and similar crimes have been recorded in Hindu, Sikh, Druze, Yezidi and some Christian societies.
‘Honour’ killings are not distinct practices, but the most extreme outcome of a system of social organization which asserts control over women and girls. Certain interpretations of religion are used to justify practices such as non-consensual and child marriage, the control of women’s behaviour, and the structure of the patriarchal family; these feed into the culture of ‘honour’ even where violence or killing is religiously proscribed."