I tiny strip of land, settled by Jews, who formed a democracy and turned that little strip of uninhabitable land into a thriving, educated, scientificly leading country is a problem for those who can't destroy it? Israel has had to build walls feet thick to protect themselves from being blown up because Muslims at some point in time inhabited some of what is now Israel. By that thinking Muslims have the right to return to much of Europe because before the Crusades they killed their way through many countries we now think of as the European Union. Nobody can justify by any standard of legal fairness what the Palestinians thugs think and do. The problem is that nobody wants them, not the Egyptians, the Jordanians or anybody else in the region. They want a country, they will have to do more then beg for money and kill people, that they don't seem to know that is a BIG PROBLEM.

When you are dealing with a culture that is so primitive that they make prudes look like 5 dollar hookers, then yes, there is a problem.

Sexual repression and a violent culture that seek to use genocide to eliminate a thriving culture that has in less than 100 years done what they could not do in 10 centuries, even with billions of petro-dollars, shows that it is their culture that needs to be eliminated.

I seriously doubt that education is going to be the answer.

Where is the outrage from woman's groups?!? I thank God that my daughter was born in the U.S.

Why stop at Palestine? When will these libs put their money where their mouth is and give Spain back?

The reason you don't hear from the feminists is that they don't dare criticize someone from another culture because that would be asserting cultural superiority and they hate America so much they cannot stomach the idea of promoting our nation and it's culture.

Having said that, you have to assume that they expect nothing else but 7th century barbarianism from muslims. In which case they are every bit the racist, cultural snobs they so dread revealing themselves to be.

txleggs: "Where is the outrage from woman's groups?!"

To answer this question, you need to ponder a couple of other questions and the answers to those questions.

(Full disclosure, I'm reiterating ideas and observations that have been around for decades.)

Q1) What do you get when you cross a minority rights activist and a leftist? Ans: A leftist

Q2) What do you get when you cross an environmentalist with a leftist? Ans: A leftist

Q3) What do you get when you cross a feminist and a leftist? Ans: A leftist

See the pattern?

In the end, leftist ideology trumps all other concepts/principles/ideas. Further, these ideas of minority rights, feminist power etc are simply tools used by leftists in their political battle with conservatives. They don't believe a word of it. It's just handy.

Further, leftist ideology calls expressly for the devaluing of western culture and values.

Thus, no criticism of other cultures will be allowed, nor even noted.

The West and it's institutions are the enemy of the left (and most of the liberals), that's why it's ok to drop a crucifix in a jar of urine, call it art and call for funding it with tax dollars while simultaneously refusing to even allow a simple critical word about muhammed and his islamic political bs on SouthPark.

You asked for questions you could ask. I would imagine that Mr. McLaren and his kind have been asked inumerable questions, but that would mean actual thinking not just feeling. They feel sorry for the Palestinians. They do not feel sorry for the Jewish people. Case closed. Feelings always trump facts when dealing with leftists.

In this particular, horrible story, they probably feel sorry for the girl, but after all, it is all the fault of the oppression of this people. They are excused because of it.

It is almost impossible to have a debate or rational argument when feelings trump everything.

Honor killings are part of Kurdish culture, not Turkish, Kurds have complete different language(not even in the same family with Turkish) and ethnicity, they are not related. Most immigrants outside Turkey are from poorest part of the country, southeast where is called as Kurdistan by some. These people do not send their children to schools, and whenever Turkey forces them, EU's self righteous people blame Turkey for assimilating this "precious" culture. In fact, these policies proven to work and there are only few of these "honor killers" in rural mountain villages. The situation in EU is different they are even more isolated then Turkey and keep living their "traditions".