re: #171 Romantic Heretic

It had nothing to do with honour and less about Canada. It was about a bunch of control freaks who destroyed something they regarded as property and said property was getting uppity.

The perps just happened to be Afghani Muslims this time. But it’s no different than the thousands of domestic homicides that occur all over the world every year.

Sorry. Totally disagree. I said this yesterday. Violence against women has roots in the same neurosis. However, when there is clan, family, society and cultural support for same, that support is an important aspect to it. It is true it has nothing to do with Islam, per se, but to pretend it has nothing to do with “traditional” societies and how they interact with modern ones in an immigrant context is absurd. Most domestsic violence killings in western society do not involve a father and son and one wife, killing another wife and all the sisters. These things happen in societies where 1) polygamous marriage is allowed 2) women are viewed as chattels and property 3) male life is valued above female life 4) actions by a child are viewed by society as impairing the rights and privileges of the entire family within a particular society.

Your argument would be similar to arguing that female infanticide in China and India is just the same as domestic violence in Manhattan. It is not. The issues are different notwithstanding they may have common roots.