A "Cultural" Offense/Defense - But For the Prosecution
Some Thoughts for the Prosecutor of the Buffalo Beheading.

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
February 20, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/423/a-cultural-offense-defense

Excerpt:

The profile of a classical honor killing is one in which a young girl or young woman in an Islamist household is, from a modern, western, and feminist point of view, kept secluded and subordinate, normatively abused, force-veiled at a young age, and held to a 7th-8th century view of woman's honor and family honor as practiced in the past and still today among many people in the Muslim Middle East, in the increasingly Arabized Islamic world in Asia, and in Muslim immigrant communities in the West.

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