"I haven't heard any statement from clergy in the region to say honour killing is wrong."
"Honour killing's Aussie link," by Sian Powell in The Australian (thanks to all who sent this in):
MORTALLY wounded and bleeding profusely, Pela Atroshi covered her head with her hands, pleading "please don't shoot me, please don't shoot me". As her sister and her mother screamed, her uncle Rezkar Atroshi raised his gun and killed her. The family's honour had been cleansed.Rezkar had already shot Pela twice in the back in the upstairs room. Helped downstairs by her mother and her younger sister, the 19-year-old Kurdish Swede was confronted by four resolute men - her father and his three brothers. The men pulled the women apart. Her youngest uncle then finished the job, shooting Pela in the head. The bullet went through one of her fingers and into her brain.
The decision to kill her was made by a council of male relatives, led by Pela's grandfather, Abdulmajid Atroshi - a Kurd who lived in Australia.
One of his sons, Shivan Atroshi, helped pull the women away from Pela so his younger brother could get a clean shot. Shivan, too, lived in Australia.
It is the first time an officially confirmed honour killing with a connection to Australia has ever publicly come to light, but it is likely there have been other Australian-connected honour crimes that have been kept hidden within the tight-lipped Australian Kurdish community. [...]
In Australia, Muhammad Kamal, a lecturer in philosophy at Melbourne University, remembers Pela's grandfather, Abdulmajid Atroshi - the patriarch.
In the early 1990s, Dr Kamal had been broadcasting a Kurdish program on SBS radio, and Atroshi was behind a campaign to have the program taken off air because he believed it was preaching immorality.
"He was a practising Muslim and a tribal man," Dr Kamal said, adding that religious leaders in Kurdistan never condemned honour crimes because they believed it was an essential bulwark against immorality. "I haven't heard any statement from clergy in the region to say honour killing is wrong," he said....


























Psychopaths. A whole society, a whole culture of psychopaths. This is beyond simple murder. This starts to look like ritual human sacrifice.
Women must be killed as Punishment if they overstep the rules. Then, the rules are set up so that it's in fact virtually impossible for a woman to be pure enough, perfect enough, obedient enough...while the male Enforcers of the Rules are programmed to be hypersensitive, viciously eager to suspect and to believe the worst..and thus, over and over, a victim is found, and the ritual murder is duly performed.
How do the women stay sane, in a society in which, between one second and the next, their brother, their father, their son, their uncle, (and yes, on occasion, other women, too, even their own mother) can suddenly be transformed, on the flimsiest of pretexts, into a merciless and murderous Judge, Jury, and Executioner?