Sorry but you are wrong. The father explicitly said it was his Islamic duty to kill his daughter. Now you may successfully and correctly argue that this is forbidden in Islam but someone should tell that to the father and the millions that think like him.
This may not be your Islamic culture but it IS HIS Islamic culture - think about it, what is it that could drive millions of people to believe that killing your own daughter is the right thing to do? I suggest the answer is the deluded belief that an all powerful supernatural entity demands it of his slaves to quench some perceived slight, or that it is written by said god, and who is this mere human to go against the wishes of the all powerful creature who controls your after-death "destination for all eternity?
It may not be Islamicly correct to pursue such courses but it does denote what happens when one is blinded and deluded by religious fervour, of whatever religion.
This man killed in the name of his god whether YOU think it right or not.
It is the duty of Muslims to teach those Muslims that think this is religiously justified that it is not. I know many do but the standard response is always - "this is cultural, Islam has nothing to do with this" - well clearly in the minds of people that carry out these crimes it has everything to do with religion.
This is a problem within the Islamic society and Muslims need to address it pro-actively and not just dismiss it as 'cultural'.
It is 'your' mothers, daughters, sisters and cousins that are dying because of these crimes, not 'ours'. Especially in Islam you can't separate religion from culture, so we are always told, so if some muslims are perpetrating these(Islamic) crimes in the name of Islam it is your duty to stand up and not just bleat, "it's cultural!".
"Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions." - Blaise Pascal
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.: - Steven Weinberg
"Of course these people are insane, but this insanity is fueled by their ideologies" - Anon.
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
Sorry but you are wrong. The father explicitly said it was his Islamic duty to kill his daughter. Now you may successfully and correctly argue that this is forbidden in Islam but someone should tell that to the father and the millions that think like him.
This may not be your Islamic culture but it IS HIS Islamic culture - think about it, what is it that could drive millions of people to believe that killing your own daughter is the right thing to do? I suggest the answer is the deluded belief that an all powerful supernatural entity demands it of his slaves to quench some perceived slight, or that it is written by said god, and who is this mere human to go against the wishes of the all powerful creature who controls your after-death "destination for all eternity?
It may not be Islamicly correct to pursue such courses but it does denote what happens when one is blinded and deluded by religious fervour, of whatever religion.
This man killed in the name of his god whether YOU think it right or not.
It is the duty of Muslims to teach those Muslims that think this is religiously justified that it is not. I know many do but the standard response is always - "this is cultural, Islam has nothing to do with this" - well clearly in the minds of people that carry out these crimes it has everything to do with religion.
This is a problem within the Islamic society and Muslims need to address it pro-actively and not just dismiss it as 'cultural'.
It is 'your' mothers, daughters, sisters and cousins that are dying because of these crimes, not 'ours'. Especially in Islam you can't separate religion from culture, so we are always told, so if some muslims are perpetrating these(Islamic) crimes in the name of Islam it is your duty to stand up and not just bleat, "it's cultural!".
"Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions." - Blaise Pascal
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.: - Steven Weinberg
"Of course these people are insane, but this insanity is fueled by their ideologies" - Anon.
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."