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Hindu Honor Killings? Yes, In India by Phyllis Chesler NewsRealBlog June 29, 2010 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/806/hindu-honor-killings-in-india Send Comment RSS Share: Excerpt: Over the last six weeks, a spate of articles about Hindu honor (or "honour") killings began appearing in the Indian and British media. I had arranged to receive Google alerts for honor killings; only recently did I add the British way of spelling the word: "honour." Initially, I was very surprised. Why? First, because honor killings occur quite rarely in the Indian diaspora in the West. See my latest study in Middle East Quarterly. In North America and Europe, Hindus committed only 3% of the honor killings. I was also surprised to read about many Hindu honor killings because Hindu human rights activists, whom I had queried, hotly denied that Hindus ever commit honor/honour killings. When I pressed one such gentleman, he insisted that "anyone who says Hindus do this is a Marxist or a Muslim troublemaker." Read the complete original version of this item... Related Topics: Honor Killings
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