National Post
The following is a condensed version of a speech delivered by National Post columnist Barbara Kay on Monday at the “Islamism’s War Against Women” seminar in Toronto.
Every time I write about honour killings of girls or women in which the father or brother who killed them claimed, sometimes with pride, to be redressing family honour, I am sure to get one or two readers responding, “Oh, I wish you wouldn’t use the word ‘honour.’ We should call them crimes of dis-honour, because that is what they are.”