there, Amerigo Vespucci, so this fails as Argumentum ad I-don't-know-how-to-read-a-mapium. And if this were a map of HBV (I couldn't find one) those two would be the same colour again, in the opposite direction, as they have more HBV than any other countries in the world -- yet they're dominated by different religions. So what DO they have in common? Geographically historical culture.
>> The cultural features which lead to honor killings are complex. Honor killings involve violence and fear as a tool of maintaining control. Honor killings are argued to have their origin among nomadic peoples and herdsmen: such populations carry all their valuables with them and risk having them stolen, and do not have proper recourse to law. As a result, inspiring fear, using aggression, and cultivating a reputation for violent revenge in order to protect property is preferred to other behaviors. In societies where there is a weak rule of law, people must build fierce reputations.
[22]
In many cultures where honor is of central value, men are sources, or active generators /agents of that honor, while the only effect that women can have on honor is to destroy it.
[22] Once the honor is destroyed by the woman, there is a need for immediate revenge to restore it, in order for the family to avoid losing face in the community. As
Amnesty International statement notes:
The regime of honour is unforgiving: women on whom suspicion has fallen are not given an opportunity to defend themselves, and family members have no socially acceptable alternative but to remove the stain on their honour by attacking the woman.
[23]
The relation between social views on
female sexuality and honor killings is complex. The way through which women in honor based societies bring dishonor to men is often through their sexual behavior. Indeed, violence related to female sexual expression has been documented since Ancient Rome, when the
pater familias had the right to kill an unmarried sexually active daughter or an adulterous wife. In medieval Europe, early Jewish law mandated
stoning for an adulterous wife and her partner.
[22] Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, an anthropology professor at
Rhode Island College, writes that an act, or even alleged act, of any female sexual misconduct, upsets the moral order of the culture, and bloodshed is the only way to remove any shame brought by the actions and restore social equilibrium.
[24] However, the relation between honor and female sexuality is a complicated one, and some authors argue that it is not women's sexuality
per se that is the 'problem', but rather women's self-determination in regard to it, as well as
fertility. Sharif Kanaana, professor of
anthropology at
Birzeit University, says that honor killing is:
A complicated issue that cuts deep into the history of Arab society. .. What the men of the family, clan, or tribe seek control of in a
patrilineal society is reproductive power. Women for the tribe were considered a factory for making men. The honour killing is not a means to control sexual power or behavior. What's behind it is the issue of fertility, or reproductive power.
[25] -- Wiki
Meanwhile, if this (FGM on the map) is supposed to be an "Islam" thing.... how can it be heavier in Africa than in ... Saudi Arabia? Including Christian countries in Africa? What's with Turkey, being at the same level as, say, Norway? And Syria? Is Syria not part of the "Middle East"? How do you explain Algeria? Morocco?
It has no function in Islam. It has no function in any religion. As I've told you about 375 times ---
one.
