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Entry: Honor-Killings, Islam, and Christendom Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/honor_killings_islam_and_christendom#1794 Post contents: Mr Higdon wrote: "I’m inclined to agree with Peter RV. Killing of women out of sexual jealousy or lust is quite common in the (no longer) Christian West." Good GOD, man! What Western country are you living in? None that I've ever visited. Have you actually witnessed those killings? Do you have any records to support what you said? Yes such things happen in the West. Rarely. But you're way out of line to say it is "common." If anything, in American and Britain, the women have the upper hand, including in violent ways. And in France, they generally have non-violent ways of dealing with erotic passions. And English generally just ignore erotic passions, if they ever have any to begin with. ;-) (Alright I'm being snarky there.) But seriously, what you described is not "common" in Western countries. It happens, but it's not "common." And you wrote: "What’s more, child killing on an industrial scale, is the practice of the West..." What the hell are you talking about? The only way this would make any sense at all, would be if you were referring (Marxist style) to the child labour which exists in third-world countries, from which Western countries benefit economically. But if that's what you mean, then the problem is a non-Western one in the first instance - unless I'm mistaken in my assumption that no European or North American countries allow child-labour. So what the hell are you talking about? You coulc say - arguably - that the West collaborates in child-killing in non-Western countries. But you're being extremely dishonest in implying that "child-killing on an industrial scale" is peculiarly Western - unless you're positing the ridiculous Marxist paradigm which blames all of the barbarities of non-Western countries on "Western imperialism" while exculpating the putatively "Noble Savages" who collaborate in it. Sent at: 2008 11 22