Reply #12: According to Ha'aretz it wasn't an honour killing...

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It was a robbery carried out by thugs and not some 'vice and morality' patrol or an honour killing as JPost appears to falsely claim. The idea promoted by JPost that any crime that happens in the Gaza Strip is only happening because it's related to religious extremism is kind of ridiculous. Crimes like this one happen for other reasons, and it ought to be remembered that not everyone who is involved with Hamas is a religious extremist. There's other reasons why the vice and morality police story falls apart on inspection, but I guess the Ha'aretz article wouldn't carry the appeal that the JPost one does to folk who are looking for anything to paint the Palestinian population as a bunch of religious fanatics who shouldn't be trusted with their own state...

*disclaimer for those who need this sort of stuff explained clearly to them. In no way am I saying that Hamas isn't a religious extremist group whose aims for the Palestinian people if and when Israel clears out leave a hell of a lot to be desired when it comes to women, gay, and secular Palestinians. What I'm saying is that in this case the motive for the murder appears to have been robbery and not religion...

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