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To: AK2004 who wrote (19074)	1/29/2003 8:07:53 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Moderate islam?? The following article is now, not a thousand years ago but now. Can a nation like this ever catch up to the civilized world? PAKISTAN: Focus on honour killings Jan. 2003 " Methods of carrying out honour killings vary across the country. In the southern province of Sindh, where it is often referred to as "karo kari", the victim is hacked to death, often with the complicity of the community. Among the tribal Pashtun communities in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Balochistan in the southwest, where the practice is known as "tur", the victim can be hacked, stabbed, burned or shot. In both cases, the practice's name means "black" in the local languages, in reference to the perceived culturally unacceptable behaviour of the victims." " The victims range from pre-pubescent girls to grandmothers. They are usually killed on the mere allegation of having engaged in 'illicit' sexual relationships. They are never given an opportunity to give their version of events: most significantly of all, often the making of the allegation alone suffices to defile a man's honour and, concomitantly, to justify killing the woman." Full article >>> oneworld.org.