“Recently I was reading a book called “Moral Minds” by Marc Hauser of Harvard. The book is about the underlying grammar of our moral judgments, but in the middle of it, he has a section on honor killings. He describes a killing that took place in Jerusalem in 2001. A guy named Mr. Asasah stood in front of his 32-year-old daughter. She was single and pregnant. Asasah had a noose and an ax and a group of about 30 men and women behind him. He asked his daughter to choose the means of her death. She chose the noose.
He then began strangling his daughter and she did not resist. As he killed her, the audience chanted, “Stronger, stronger, you hero, you have proven that you are not despicable.” After the woman was dead, her mother and sister served coffee to their guests.”
http://theconversation.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/going-to-extremism/?apage=3#comments
Comment:
Extremism is not confined to Islam alone.Christianity, Judaism practiced it.It is born of a feeling of insecurity.It shall pass.
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