The thing with honour killings it mainly has to with marrying within your own caste and if that doesn't happening your gonna get the chop. Don't know how people can use religion as a basis for this.
Anyway peoples opinions won;t change about Islam which isn't suprising at all. So we have to make the change we have to show them how it is meant to be, one person at a time. It will be a struggle but hopefully we'll get out of this phase sooner rather then later.
Phase is a good way to describe it, though i'd still like to know why Islam and why now
I don't really have the answer to that. Maybe I'm just way too liberal for my own good.
Through this whole thread why am I thinking of Gundam Seed Destiny
"Life is but a gentle death. Fate is but a sickness that results in extinction and in the midst of all the uncertainty, lies resolve."