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[[Anthropologist]] [[James Emery]] found that, "[[Palestinian]] culture continues to equate the value of a woman's life to her inviolable [[purity]]. Whatever her progress, ancient traditions still engulf her. Should she become the unfortunate victim of rumor or [[rape]], she'll be sacrificed, just as her ancestors who swept across the [[Arabian Desert]] [[sacrifice]]d sheep and other animals in the name of [[honor]] and [[Islam]]."<ref>''World&I'' May 2003, p. 190</ref>

[[Anthropologist]] [[James Emery]] found that, "[[Palestinian]] culture continues to equate the value of a woman's life to her inviolable [[purity]]. Whatever her progress, ancient traditions still engulf her. Should she become the unfortunate victim of rumor or [[rape]], she'll be sacrificed, just as her ancestors who swept across the [[Arabian Desert]] [[sacrifice]]d sheep and other animals in the name of [[honor]] and [[Islam]]."<ref>''World&I'' May 2003, p. 190</ref>

The practice is especially prevalent in highly traditional societies, ranging from Islamic communities of the [[Middle East]] to Catholic [[Brazil]] and Eastern Orthodox [[Greece]].  Many of these countries have statutory laws against honour killing, but traditional or customary law permists the practice.<ref name="Law">{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=oIjxVimxO_wC&pg=PA70&dq=honour+killing+india&hl=en&sa=X&ei=psdrT6yWJYjqgQfJ6vXJBg&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=honour%20killing%20india&f=false|title =Women in Developing Countries: A Reference Handbook|author=Karen L. Kinnear|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|quote=Many of these countries have statutory laws against honor killing, but traditional or customary law permits the practice.|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref> The practice has also been imported into the Western World due to globalization.<ref name="Globalization">{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=t-01IYC8ROgC&pg=PT4213&dq=honour+killing+india&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sclrT_y4O8n9ggfz8oyhBg&ved=0CFQQ6AEwBjgK|title =Encyclopædia of Immigrant Health|author=Sana Loue, Dr Martha Sajatovic|publisher=[[Springer]]|quote=Honor killings may thus be expected to appear in societies and migrant communities where the idea of “honor” and the concomitant anxiety of social shame constitutes one of the focal cultural values is being primarily attributed to the proper behavior of the consanguinal female family members.|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref>  

The practice is especially prevalent in highly traditional societies, ranging from Islamic communities of the [[Middle East]] to Catholic [[Brazil]] and Eastern Orthodox [[Greece]].  Many of these countries have statutory laws against honour killing, but traditional or customary law permists the practice.<ref name="Law">{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=oIjxVimxO_wC&pg=PA70&dq=honour+killing+india&hl=en&sa=X&ei=psdrT6yWJYjqgQfJ6vXJBg&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=honour%20killing%20india&f=false|title =Women in Developing Countries: A Reference Handbook|author=Karen L. Kinnear|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|quote=Many of these countries have statutory laws against honor killing, but traditional or customary law permits the practice.|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref> The practice has also been imported into the Western World due to globalization.<ref name="Globalization">{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=t-01IYC8ROgC&pg=PT4213&dq=honour+killing+india&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sclrT_y4O8n9ggfz8oyhBg&ved=0CFQQ6AEwBjgK|title =Encyclopædia of Immigrant Health|author=Sana Loue, Dr Martha Sajatovic|publisher=[[Springer]]|quote=Honor killings may thus be expected to appear in societies and migrant communities where the idea of “honor” and the concomitant anxiety of social shame constitutes one of the focal cultural values is being primarily attributed to the proper behavior of the consanguinal female family members.|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref>  

Most schools of Islamic [[jurisprudence]] legitimate the killing by the family of a married person caught in the act of [[adultery]]. Under [[Syria]]n law, an honor killing is not murder.<ref>"Honor, Crimes of." in ''Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures: Family, law, and politics'' ed. by Suad Joseph, (2005)[http://books.google.com/books?id=4Uyypm6T7ZsC&pg=RA1-PA221&dq=%22Under+Syrian+law,+an+honor+killing+is+not+murder,+and+the+man+who+commits+it+%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false online edition]

Most schools of Islamic [[jurisprudence]] legitimate the killing by the family of a married person caught in the act of [[adultery]]. Under [[Syria]]n law, an honor killing is not murder.<ref>"Honor, Crimes of." in ''Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures: Family, law, and politics'' ed. by Suad Joseph, (2005)[http://books.google.com/books?id=4Uyypm6T7ZsC&pg=RA1-PA221&dq=%22Under+Syrian+law,+an+honor+killing+is+not+murder,+and+the+man+who+commits+it+%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false online edition]

== Middle East ==

== Middle East ==

In the [[Koran]], it says, "If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, take the evidence of four (reliable) witness from amongst you against them; if they testify, confine them to houses until death do claim them. Or God ordain for them some (other) way." <ref>Koran 4:15 [http://www.searchquran.org/?k=4:11&t=1&h=off&noar=]</ref>

In the [[Koran]], it says, "If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, take the evidence of four (reliable) witness from amongst you against them; if they testify, confine them to houses until death do claim them. Or God ordain for them some (other) way." <ref>[http://www.searchquran.org/?k=4:11&t=1&h=off&noar= Koran 4:15]</ref>

Sahi Muslim number 4206 says, "There came to him (the Holy Prophet) a woman from Ghamid and said: [[Allah]]'s Messenger, I have committed [[adultery]], so purify me... And she was put in a ditch up to her chest and he commanded people and they [[Stoning|stoned]] her. Khalid b Walid came forward with a stone which he flung at her head and there spurted blood on the face of Khalid and so he abused her." <ref>Hadith of the holy prophet (may peace be upon him) [http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/017.smt.html#017.4206]</ref>

Sahi Muslim number 4206 says, "There came to him (the Holy Prophet) a woman from Ghamid and said: [[Allah]]'s Messenger, I have committed [[adultery]], so purify me... And she was put in a ditch up to her chest and he commanded people and they [[Stoning|stoned]] her. Khalid b Walid came forward with a stone which he flung at her head and there spurted blood on the face of Khalid and so he abused her." <ref>[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/017.smt.html#017.4206 Hadith of the holy prophet (may peace be upon him)]</ref>

== Europe ==

== Europe ==

== South Asia ==

== South Asia ==

In [[India]] and [[Pakistan]], honour killings contine to be a problem, with 73 crimes reported in India and over 600 in Pakistan in 2009.<ref name="SouthAsia">{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=oIjxVimxO_wC&pg=PA70&dq=honour+killing+india&hl=en&sa=X&ei=psdrT6yWJYjqgQfJ6vXJBg&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=honour%20killing%20india&f=false|title =Women in Developing Countries: A Reference Handbook|author=Karen L. Kinnear|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|quote=In India and Pakistan, honor killings continue to be a problem, with 73 crimes reported in India and over 600 in Pakistan in 2009 (U.S. State Dept. 2009).|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref>

In [[India]] and [[Pakistan]], honour killings contine to be a problem, with 73 crimes reported in India and over 600 in Pakistan in 2009.<ref name="SouthAsia">{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=oIjxVimxO_wC&pg=PA70&dq=honour+killing+india&hl=en&sa=X&ei=psdrT6yWJYjqgQfJ6vXJBg&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=honour%20killing%20india&f=false|title =Women in Developing Countries: A Reference Handbook|author=Karen L. Kinnear|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|quote=In India and Pakistan, honor killings continue to be a problem, with 73 crimes reported in India and over 600 in Pakistan in 2009 (U.S. State Dept. 2009).|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref>

==Further reading==

==Further reading==

* Besse, Susan K. "Crimes of Passion: The Campaign against Wife Killing in Brazil, 1910-1940," ''Journal of Social History,'' Vol. 22, No. 4 (Summer, 1989), pp. 653-666 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3787542 in JSTOR]

* Besse, Susan K. "Crimes of Passion: The Campaign against Wife Killing in Brazil, 1910-1940," ''Journal of Social History,'' Vol. 22, No. 4 (Summer, 1989), pp.&nbsp;653–666 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3787542 in JSTOR]

* Korteweg, Anna and Yurdakul, Gökçe. "Islam, Gender, and Immigrant Integration: Boundary Drawing in Discourses on Honour Killing in the Netherlands and Germany," ''Ethnic & Racial Studies'' 2009 32(2): 218-238 in [[EBSCO]]

* Korteweg, Anna and Yurdakul, Gökçe. "Islam, Gender, and Immigrant Integration: Boundary Drawing in Discourses on Honour Killing in the Netherlands and Germany," ''Ethnic & Racial Studies'' 2009 32(2): 218-238 in [[EBSCO]]

* Safilios-Rothschild, Constantina. "'Honour' Crimes in Contemporary Greece," ''British Journal of Sociology'', Vol. 20, No. 2 (June 1969), pp. 205-218 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/588531 in JSTOR]

* Safilios-Rothschild, Constantina. "'Honour' Crimes in Contemporary Greece," ''British Journal of Sociology'', Vol. 20, No. 2 (June 1969), pp.&nbsp;205–218 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/588531 in JSTOR]

* Van Eck, Clementine. ''Purified by Blood: Honor Killings amongst Turks in the Netherlands'' (2003) [http://www.questia.com/read/109341020?title=Purified%20by%20Blood%3a%20%20Honour%20Killings%20Amongst%20Turks%20in%20the%20Netherlands online edition]

* Van Eck, Clementine. ''Purified by Blood: Honor Killings amongst Turks in the Netherlands'' (2003) [http://www.questia.com/read/109341020?title=Purified%20by%20Blood%3a%20%20Honour%20Killings%20Amongst%20Turks%20in%20the%20Netherlands online edition]

* "Honor, Crimes of." in ''Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures: Family, law, and politics'' ed. by Suad Joseph, (2005)[http://books.google.com/books?id=4Uyypm6T7ZsC&pg=RA1-PA221&dq=%22Under+Syrian+law,+an+honor+killing+is+not+murder,+and+the+man+who+commits+it+%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false online edition]

* "Honor, Crimes of." in ''Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures: Family, law, and politics'' ed. by Suad Joseph, (2005)[http://books.google.com/books?id=4Uyypm6T7ZsC&pg=RA1-PA221&dq=%22Under+Syrian+law,+an+honor+killing+is+not+murder,+and+the+man+who+commits+it+%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false online edition]