What’s Behind The Enormous Denial That Beheadings Are Related To Islam?

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
February 27, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/426/whats-behind-the-enormous-denial-that-beheadings

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These People Claim That Honor Killings Are The Same As Domestic Violence

Hard on the heels of the Buffalo beheading, the mainstream and feminist media hosted many Islamic clerics, Muslim, Jewish, and Christian religious writers, as well as liberal, secular feminists, all of whom insisted that honor killings are no different than domestic violence; that both are crimes; and that honor killings have nothing to do with Islam just as domestic violence has nothing to do with religion.

Even so, everyone also said that an anti-Muslim bias (or “Muslim baiting”), controlled the perception of honor killings in general, and saw honor killings even when they did not exist–for example, in the case of the Buffalo beheading.

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