"My mother hired a hitman to kill me..."

So why are they living here if they abhor our culture and lifestyle? Utterly stupid idiots.

Back your claim up with some evidence relating to this event.

Don't pull random evidence from other incidents...use the information here in this story to back your claim up.

Because if you tell me that it's "always" the case that it's cultural then you are committing the hasty generalization fallacy.

It wasn't random evidence anyway, but if you want your evidence that it wasn't religion, she herself says that Islam means peace, and the article is about her being abused. So if she was blaming religion she wouldn't have said that, she blamed how it was interpreted, not how it is. Just because her parents believed that what they did was right religiously doesn't mean it was.

But then how do you know what's right?

If Islam is just fully open to interpretation like that, then how do you know that the parent's interpretation was wrong? It would seem that they have as much chance of being right as anyone else if the book is open to interpretation like that?

If you don't know what's right or not, you can't blame religion. If the parents had the support of the Islamic community, then you could argue that religion was to blame, but seeing as they didn't it's more than likely that their interpretation wasn't right.

Something like that would have been mentioned in the article. And besides, if that would have been the case then the local Imam would have been involved in the case, which he wasn't.

Honour killings don't happen in Islam, they happen in Islamic countries. There are no accounts of honour killings in the Qu'ran, they happen in those countries due to the culture.

It doesn't have to be in the Quran to be related to Islam you know. The Quran isn't some master book of everything.

There are a lot of things that are not in the Quran but are automatically linked to Islam...for example: niqab/hijab (which many muslims argue has nothing to do with the Quran as they are mentioned in the hadiths)

I have no words for that... :/

For a moment I wondered if this was a title of a Jeremy Kyle story.

She looks like a man yo! I'd be well disappointed with offspring looking like that !

Oh that's mean

This was posted from The Student Room's Android App on my GT-S5830

LOOL forreal

Don't you feel sorry for her?

Naa why should I. There are more worthy people in the world that deserve my sympathy.

Obviously what her parents done was wrong, but it happened like 20 years ago..

Read this DM article (yeah yeah Fail Mail) ages ago, and then stumbled across it again recently:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1210799/My-mother-hired-hitman-kill-The-shocking-story-Muslim-woman-parents-disapproved-Western-lifestyle.html

Opinions?

Oh, and by the way...

Whats wrong with the Daily Mail??

Look forward too the response!

thats disgusting. Killing to correct dishonour? these people who think this are mentally ill.