The Modern World and Shari'a Law
What happens when modern technology combines with the widespread practice in Islamic cultures of honor killings?
The participants use their cell-phone cameras to catch close-ups of the girl's face as they stomp and stone her to death.
Warning -- that link goes to an Islamic site with the video taken by one of the cell phones. The girl is clearly still alive at the beginning. It is horrific, and consists of a large crowd of young people shouting and encouraging each other as they kill this girl at close range, ultimately smashing her head with cinder blocks.
Here's an essay, translated into English, written by a Muslim women decrying the practice.
Honor killing has been a growing feature of Western countries as their Muslim populations have grown. And it now becoming more visible in the United States.
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The participants use their cell-phone cameras to catch close-ups of the girl's face as they stomp and stone her to death.
Warning -- that link goes to an Islamic site with the video taken by one of the cell phones. The girl is clearly still alive at the beginning. It is horrific, and consists of a large crowd of young people shouting and encouraging each other as they kill this girl at close range, ultimately smashing her head with cinder blocks.
Here's an essay, translated into English, written by a Muslim women decrying the practice.
Honor killing has been a growing feature of Western countries as their Muslim populations have grown. And it now becoming more visible in the United States.
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