Re: British Honour Killing
[QUOTE=davetlv]One of the reason why Europe might have been, as you say Yao, too lenient is because of Europes recent history and the mass murder of 6 million Jews in the 30's and 40's.
However, that said, there are certain laws a country MUST uphold for all its citizens, regardless of where they were born. The bottom line is this, in the UK murder is illegal - it doesn't matter whether its an 'honor' killing or something else. Murder is illegal. Therefore, regardless of who commits the crime or even what motavation they think they have for committing the crime, MURDER IS ILLEGAL and the full weight of the law should be used to punish those who commit such crimes for what ever reason.
Now, Bart believes that if someone, not native to the UK commit a crime, they should be sent back to where they came from. I can not agree with this at all. Crimes committed in one country should only be punishable by that country. By jailing these murderers it has shown that the UK will not tollerate this type of barbaric behaviour in the same way as it wont tollerate any other crime.
Peace and love to you all. :twisted:[/QUOTE]
I understand what you say Dave, and that would and should be the normal way of things, if it weren't for the context in which this is all taking place. It makes very clear that some people are still not tended to integrate in this society, and not just that: that is a symptom of a current in the Islam which is not only resistant to integreation, but even agressively opposed to our way of life. Now the best nuance I can make on this, that you relate the extradidion to the level of integration AND the intention with which such a crime was committed.
Say what you want, but this was not just a murder, it's also a bit of Islamic culture being displayed which is not supposed to be excercised in our communties...