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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
what percent of Muslims think the Danish cartoonists ought to be killed, I wonder?
In which countries do they look away when it comes to honor killings?
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That would be an interesting study, particularly to see how responses vary across Islam.
As for honor killings, this is not unique to Islam (can be found in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, India for example) and I think is more a factor of the "civilization" effect. The more civilized a society becomes, the more protective it is of human rights and, naturally, more intolerant of such practices.
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