Responding to an article on the murder of a Turkish woman in Berlin by her own brothers and the concept of "honor crimes," DW-WORLD readers dismissed the idea of ethics class to counter entrenched attitudes.
Hatin Sürücü was gunned down on a Berlin street by her brothers
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Ethics classes may touch some of the people in the Muslim community, but I don't think it will solve all the problems with Islamic traditions meeting western law and values. The law is the law and I believe the Germans bend their principles too often to appease the Muslim community. Perhaps the punishment for these crimes should be expanded -- more years in prison or expulsion for the entire family from Germany all together. The claim that a family can carry out these "honor killings" under the pretense of Islamic tradition is simply a cover for murder, plain and simple -- Boyd Lawrence, United States
The idea of a class being offered to change deeply held cultural/ religious beliefs and practices is absurd. What needs to be done is enforce the law rigorously and abandon the pretense that is "multi-culturalism." Call murder, murder and promptly try and punish the perpetrators and let it be known that Germany will not condone killing done in the name of honor or of religion -- Manuel H Rodriguez, United States