Turkish Honor killings - 16 year old buried alive

Where is the honor in burying a sixteen year old girl alive for talking to boys?

Parents are there to love and raise their children the best they can, to teach them right form wrong so they can grow up to be good and honest people. I cannot see how the Muslim faith allows this they argue it is a cultural thing, it is not, they believe a 'curse' is on a family who allows a female to dishonor them and the only solution is death.

In Turkey a girl was buried alive, they found sand in her stomach, lungs and mouth which indicates that she was alive when put in the ground. There where no poison in her blood nor any proof of a struggle.This happened shortly after she told people that her grandfather beat her because she talked to boys. The police was tipped of that the girl was killed after a family council meeting and buried in the yard underneath a chicken pen.

But what makes this even worse than it is, is that this happens all the time. In fact half of the murders that take place in Turkey are honor killings. That means the Muslim community is killing off their daughters by the hundreds and still people fail to link the two. It is the more extreme Muslims that believe that woman are property to be treated as cattle, even worse. I think the French President Nicolas Sarkozy has it right where he wants to ban the Burca, traditional wear for Muslim women, from public places. The husband will be fined if he forces his wife to wear such clothing.

There is a difference in respecting religion but if that religion is demeaning to a person why should we respect it?

Islam is a cruel, many can argue but the fact remains that there are hundreds of woman punished, put in jail and even killed for trespassing on rules or even just because they 'offended' a man's pride. This story of the poor sixteen year old known as MM is proof of this.

Women killed in the name of honor