January 24, 2006

The gift of indiscriminate immigration.

This excerpt is from a longer article that is nothing less than bone chilling for the portrait it paints of the utter ignorance and evil that enters with immigrants from primitive societies. It is a story of fathers and brothers -- and mothers -- turning on their own kin and slaughtering them like animals.
Honor killings claim an estimated 5,000 women worldwide every year in overwhelmingly patriarchal cultures. Family honor is a tangible value in these societies, and women are considered family property. Emigres, even far away, can feel bound by such codes.

"No one could believe that it could happen, but we kept giving evidence that honor killings are here," said Diana Nammi, founder of the International Campaign Against Honor Killings, a non-profit group in London.

"We told police: Immigrants come here and they bring traditions--all their traditions," Nammi said.
"For family honor, she had to die. European police weren't looking for this kind of violence steeped in tradition. They are now." By Christine Spolar, Chicago Tribune, 11/17/05 (emphasis added).

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