But in the Arabic world, honor killings are regarded as a "better" kind of killings, since they are carried out to restore the honor of entire "families of men" who have been dishonored by the actions of one particular woman.
I've not been following this one too closely and I certainly wouldn't count myself as being in any way knowledgeable about the subject, but this caught my eye and I'm curious, Ann, about that phrase in quotes - families of men - and wondering where it comes fun.
Only because, sadly, it is often the entire family that feels honour must be restored by killing - often mothers are as much participants in that as their husbands. I read of one case, where a young woman here in the UK was lured to her parents home and it was her mother who pushed her to the ground and then sat on her chest, holding her down so that the father could kill her.
So it's not just the men in a family, it seems.
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