I do not think it has anything to do with religion, honor killings, I think it is more cultural like the female circumcisions are. In Iraq, for example, there are certain Kurdish areas where female circimcisions are carried out. In some of the countries in the Middle East, there are literally hundreds of different tribes who have their own dialects and customs. When you see a village like Nabi Saleh, for example, where all the residents have the surname Tamimi, you are dealing with a specific tribe of people with their own history and customs.
Thanks so much for a paragraph from the mosque literature ---sherri.
In fact----circumcision is not only ALMOST totally a practice of muslims---
it exists in virtually all places where islam was imposed----in some places
it is rare. In general it is not at all prevalent in Iran ---or Pakistan.---but
it still exists. It is exremely rare in non muslim populations----
with the exception of some groups in subsaharan africa (CHECK THE
W.H.O findings ----or---go to a nice large medical library). In the
world today---female circumcision is A MUSLIM religious
practice
As to arabic ----it has the characteristic of the majority of its
speakers being illiterate-----when a language is spoken
but not written----is does change lots and persons from
different places do not understand each other in speech SO???
the rest of your post is chock full of misleading assertions
and errors----but that is ok-----you lie all the time