Reply #20: Lebanese "culture" is influenced by it's majority religion

[maxsolomon]

but have it your way - ultimately, there's no qualitative difference between the west, where distraught men kill their wives for leaving them, or cheating on them, and the Islamic world (of which lebanon is a part), where men kill their daughters and sisters for 'offenses' we find laughable.

are you saying we must eliminate spouse-killing in America before we can criticize this LARGELY islamic practice in islamic countries? or merely that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones? or that it's the not the monotheism, but the misogyny (that is an integral part of the religion)?