Wow. You are very assumptious. The more 'civilized' any nation becomes (at the median), the more content and carefree the people become. Islamists being mroe violent and radicalized has more to do with their general living conditions and place in the world than it does with the tenets of Islam itself. If WE were the ones behind in personal luxuries, freedoms, and technologies and THEY were more advanced and 'comfortable', there is no doubt in my mind that WE would be the 'holy warriors', violent and unhappy. Any religion possesses the potential for insane, unfathomable violence. We simply have the 'best' standing as a world super-power. Take that away from us and we'll become 'savages'. At least in the eyes of someone else.
I must now admit that I am continually surprised by this line of reasoning - you'd think I'd get over it because this line of reasoning is so easily found - but it's so absurd that I have a difficult time remembering that people actually believe it.
Let me poke a couple glaring holes in the commenter's reasoning. The women are from India, the Hindus their daughters married are also presumably from India. I seriously doubt that the Indian Hindus are ahead of the Indian Muslims in personal luxuries, freedom, and technology. Remember, India is the world's largest democracy - it is boom city there right now (except of course for the slums, but that's a different article). No matter the living conditions - the reason they say they killed their daughters is because they married Hindus - not because the Hindus have more stuff than they do.
Second - there have been enough honor killings in Western countries in which the Muslim families were at the very least middle class. Muslims living in Canada or the USA have the same in personal luxuries, freedom, and technology as the rest of those populations - regardless of which religion they practice.
The author of the comment seems to suggest that we Americans (Christians) don't engage in honor killings only because we are a 'world super power'. However, a little trip through geography and history shows that when Christians are part of a non-world super power, they don't engage in honor killing or turn into savages. Christians also don't engage in that behavior when they are the downtrodden minority in a non-Christian country.
The overall impression I have of the above comment is that poverty causes jealousy and jealousy causes savage behavior and honor killing is simply to be expect by those that are jealous - it could happen to anybody. Yah, I don't think so. When black Americans (Christians) where being persecuted under slavery or Jim Crow Laws they did not resort to killing their daughters for behaving too 'white'.
Yes, there are people in every walk of life that act in evil ways - they even fight each other over trivial matters sometimes - but that doesn't cause them to kill their daughters. Disown them possibly, but kill them - hardly. There is no justification for honor killing. Period.
Another country that kills their daughters is China - but that, too, is a different article.
