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Nations that have permitted large-scale immigration from the Muslim Middle East have all experienced "honor killings"--the murder, almost invariably of women by men, of those deemed to have departed too far from Muslim social norms.(The Week)(Brief article)

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Nations that have permitted large-scale immigration from the Muslim Middle East have all experienced "honor killings"-the murder, almost invariably of women by men, of those deemed to have departed too far from Muslim social norms. These are, in other words, murders motivated by hatred of assimilation. The recent killings in Texas seem to follow the pattern. The two daughters of 50-year-old Egyptian immigrant Yaser Abdel Said were found shot to death in the taxi Said owned. Friends and relatives have all spoken of Said's distress that his daughters wished to mix with non-Muslims and dress like other ...

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