https://pjmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/02/20/a-cultural-defense-but-for-the-prosecution-some-thoughts-for-the-prosecutor-of-the-buffalo-beheading/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 11:33:41 -0400<![CDATA[The profile of a classical honor killing is one in which a young girl or young woman in an Islamist household is, from a modern, western, and feminist point of view, kept secluded and subordinate, normatively abused, force-veiled at a young age, and held to a 7th-8th century view of woman&#8217;s honor and family honor as practiced in the past and still today among many people in the Muslim Middle East, in the increasingly Arabized Islamic world in Asia, and in Muslim immigrant communities in the West.]]>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:12:23 -0500<![CDATA[Phyllis Chesler]]>https://pjmedia.com/phyllis-chesler/2009/02/20/a-cultural-defense-but-for-the-prosecution-some-thoughts-for-the-prosecutor-of-the-buffalo-beheading-n104003