This ad gives the impression, and moreover seeks to give the impression, that honour killings are a Muslim — and only a Muslim — phenomenon. Honour killings of girls and women, while statistically heavily skewed Muslim, are a feature of South Asian life amongst many religious groups. Up until 1991 in Brazil, adultery-motivated wife killings were treated as non-criminal and were even called “honour killings.” Nearly 800 of them occurred in one year. While it is true that today honour killings in the West are primarily a Muslim phenomenon (over 90%), they are still troublingly common amongst other groups in certain regions. The Black Lives Matter movement sprang up out of frustration over the social ill of double standards in law enforcement, but its consciousness-raising activism has arguably fomented the secondary social ill of uncontrolled rage on both sides of the issue.

Source: National Post August 22, 2016 14:26 UTC