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Originally Posted by moeloubani
You guys say this as if the girl has no choice, can't refuse the marriage and is stuck no matter what. That doesn't happen, and if it does, it's called rape and it is prosecuted as such. Women have a right to refuse marriage in Islam and marriage can't happen if the woman isn't willing even if her family wants it to happen.
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Then explain to me why there are so many honor killings in islamic families, one of the main reasons for them being
wanting to terminate or prevent an arranged marriage or desiring to marry by own choice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing
Of course official islamic sites deny the existance of honor killings inside the religion and it's laws:
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/S...=1119503543392
But that doesn't change the fact that many, not just a few but MANY islamic families have and do take the law into their own hands and perform honor killings throughout the islamic world.
Again, widely investigated, widely documented, several credible documentaries done on this over the years. I saw on a tv newsmagazine series just recently about a few that have been reported within the past few months.
http://www.islam-watch.org/SyedKamra...or_killing.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...orkilling.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kamran..._b_168401.html
http://www.islamist-watch.org/928/do...honor-killings
Sorry, but again you're off-base and sadly misinformed. If you think that thousands of young women in the muslim world aren't being brutally killed, some for having the temerity to simply want to marry who they want rather than who they are told to marry, then you simply aren't keeping yourself informed or you are flat-out ignoring the problem. I can see why you'd choose to ignore it, since it's a complete and utter shame on your entire way of life and belief system.
Fact is, that kind of thing doesn't happen over here in the evil decadent "Canada & US". If it does it's almost always if not always muslims doing it who have emigrated here. I can't recall a single news story of it happening here in fact, but I do remember an episode of Law & Order that dealt with it, something about muslims doing forced clit-ectomies on their daughters (and trying to justify it).
Explain honor killings to me if you can.