Absolutely Horrific!

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/middleeast/iran-teenage-wife-beheaded-intl/index.html

There is no “Honor” in the so-called practice of honor killing. I’m generally not one who likes to stick my nose into the lives and traditions of a country that I don’t know anything about, but killing your wife, or other family member, in order to win back honor is more than I can handle. Especially when the person being killed is a child.

What ever happened that made someone think that they had to kill a person to restore honor is not something that can ever be undone. The action will forever remain in history. If a husband murders his wife because she ran off to another country with her family, the fact that she ran off will always be there.

“But I restored my honor by killing her because she ran off.” Yea, OK, but she still ran off in the first place. No matter what you try to do to undo that, it can’t be done.

Fortunately this sort of thing only appears to be a practice of a small part of the Eastern World. Unfortunately, it seems to be such an old, and accustomed practice, that getting these areas to change their views is not going to be an easy thing. It’s going to be up to the leaders of that country, filtering down to the leaders of that area, to tell the people who still believe in the practice that they have to find a new way to restore honor without killing anyone.