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To: Elroy who wrote (243535)9/30/2007 4:05:27 PM
From: c.hinton  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Sorry elroy we are talking about religion and killing ....and in america most killings are done by christains.

you dont condone murder do you?...honor killing is murder and so is shooting to rob.

Last year Minneapolis had 49 homicides. So far this year 41 people have been killed, most of them shot in the street by men in search of money or drugs, or with a score to settle. The level of violence in this city of 370,000 is “off the chain”, according to Lee Edwards, who investigates murders. Minneapolis's homicide rate is now almost twice that of New York. And it is moving in the wrong directio



To: Elroy who wrote (243535)10/1/2007 12:20:31 AM
From: c.hinton  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
re honor killing....The practice, she said, "goes across cultures and across religions."

"In countries where Islam is practiced, they're called honor killings, but dowry deaths and so-called crimes of passion have a similar dynamic in that the women are killed by male family members and the crimes are perceived as excusable or understandable," said Widney Brown, advocacy director for Human Rights Watch.

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