Hi canary! yes I agree with you when you said (about the film EAST IS EAST) "that film got a good write up and it is all about keeping up
with the Joneses in a way".

And that's how I see what is happening with those atrosities dubbed 'honour killings'. A 'keeping up with the Jones's' gone mad!

And to all: I read the article and so far the police have declined to give details of the way in which the girl received the injuries which eventually caused her death. Her fellow students and neighbours have "suggested" there was a problem with her father and what she wore.

" ... teenager was killed in a family dispute over her choice not to wear traditional Muslim clothing, her friends say...."

I seem to recall having a similar problem with my own father. I used to call out 'goodbye' as I left to go out, then crept back in and plastered my face with make-up and crept out again. Happily my father was more rational than this poor girl's dad was.

Who knows what went on in that household to cause such a temper to flare up and harm his own daughter.

No where in the article does it blame anyone or anything except the father - who was so mortified he rang the police !!!