he culprits would be charged with a crime, such as attempted murder. That’s the way most modern democracies in the West work

Except that it isn’t how it works in the Muslim community. Most Honor killings are disguised and only in the last years the police is making an effort to identify them.

feminist.com

For in the shadows of the famously tolerant and peaceful Netherlands has long lurked a secret it took Hirsi Ali’s courage to lay bare: Honor killings.

Because these killings long were kept hidden and unspoken in the Muslim community, the actual number of such murders that occur in Holland every year is unknown, though Hirsi Ali believes it could be as many as 50, possibly more. While Muslims account for less than 6 percent of the Dutch population, Muslim women are 60 percent of those in battered women’s shelters. The government was reluctant to talk about the situation, Hirsi Ali says, because they believed tolerance required respecting different cultures and traditions. ..