This story is long and sad but it intrigues. I think the Dallas Morning News is their mainstream paper, this story is from the Observer, not sure if that makes any difference. The writing is sloppy and sweeping. Also I'm not sure what Hindu text would even deal with this topic

http://www.dallasobserver.com/2008-06-19/news/american-girls/

I think one of the gentleman who posts on here lives in or near Lewisville, Rose Hill or something

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I'm surprised no one has commented on this, it was a long read lol, perhaps too long lol

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This is what happens when these socially challenged ****heels bring their neanderthal folkways to our great melting pot...Turn down the heat,for Chrissake!and behave like HUMANS.

Guilty ... I read the first two pages and got bored. I didn't feel like investing myself into 9 pages of negativity. I'm sorry about what happened to the girls, but I'm already aware that this stuff happens in the world.



I watched a movie titled "Sabah" which was about intercultural relationships.
Sabah is a Muslim Arab woman who falls for a Canadian man. It has a happy ending and a groovy soundtrack.

http://www.sabahthemovie.com/about.htm

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Ironically, the same sort of incident reported here...this time in Georgia:

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/georgia-man-charged-in-honor-killing/20080708154209990001

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I think the article is geared to those in the industry. I think the author has visions of glory and a permanent job at the New Yorker in mind. Ideally he could have added a little story about the Okapi on page 7, telling us how the Okapi first made its western appearance at the Antwerp Zoo in 1918, and how the Philadelphia Zoo (our nations oldest and most prestigious) was disappointed by this, and how the first Okapi born in the west was born right here in Chicagoland, but I digress.

Sabah is great, when I heard the soundtrack I thought 'lebanon', but Syria is great. Unfortunately Amazon.com is asking about $26 for this film, so that particular avenue of pleasure has been closed to me.

Ciao

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All hail the religious zealots.. My family is of russian/middle eastern background - non practicing muslim basically. My parents came to the U.S. in 1965 and I was born in 1967. My dad explained what the muslim religion, as well as what other religions are about when I was 6 years old. He basically said to make my own choice when I grow up - "Become a Buddhist monk if it's what you want". We never went to a mosque. A carpet was never unrolled in our house. My mom did make me go once to a "medrassa" (improper pronunciation of course) as the media likes to point out about B.O. when I was 8. "Meh-dressah" is an arabic word to reference a SCHOOL, any school, not specifically a religions one. After sitting there for an hour, I left. When she picked me up I told her I don't want to ever go back to one. The subject never came up again.

After he passed away the following year, some others in the "community" tried to get my mother to offer up my sister - 17 at the time, to some guy that was 42. They even offered a dowry of I don't recall what, but I do recall my mom saying "If you throw in a washer and dryer, you have a deal", and walked out. We never got involved with the religious & cultural zealots and my mother was shunned for it. It really didn't bother her or us.
The "ring leader" was our neighbor for 30 years. She did the whole pilgrimage to Mecca bull$hit, covered her head and prayed 5 times a day. Meanwhile, both sons had criminal records - she didn't care where the air conditioner came from as long as she was cool, and she was the first to point to other people - "Her daughter is a tramp. She went away to school so she can sit with men", she spread through the "community" about my sister. At the same time, her daughter that's around my age, was leaving the house late Friday & Saturday nights in velvet cat suits and not getting home til dawn, got involved with an engaged man and broke it up because they were "caught" by family, therefore it was a shame so THEY had to get married.

Anyone, whether Egyptian,Canadian, from Texas or Alaska, that would stand in the way of their children's happiness due to their stubborn old cultural or societal beliefs (let alone kill them) aught to be strung up by their nuts and have a small, jagged cut to a major artery so they can bleed to death slowly... I know, I'm disturbed..

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I wouldn't say disturbed. I'd say spot on actually.

- Peter.

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Any wonder our cultures don't understand each other?

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No wonder at all since those "zealots" span most all cultures and ethnic backgrounds.....

A close friend is first-generation Greek-American. To his parents, if it ain't Greek, it ain't $hit in their eyes. I work with some good ole' boys that would slit their daughter's throats if they came home with a ni**er or a spic".....

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I have yet to hear of a Greek killing his kids over marriage to non-Greeks. Same with some slope-headed redneck. Not saying it hasn't ever happened.

Would you suppose that the proportions are equal among all cultures?

I don't know the stats. Maybe you're right but "someone" doing it once versus someone doing it 10 times is any less heinous ?

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Greeks don't kill their children for marrying non-Greeks, they commit suicide.

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