The UK: Slightly Less Screwed!

This is an encouraging news story. A judge in the UK has called for the end of the term "honour" killings, and railed against an abusive Pakistani-whoooooooooops-"Asian" family. (Confirimation of Pakistani origin in this article.) "A senior judge has called for an end to the use of the phrase “honour killings” to describe what is “in reality sordid, criminal behaviour". In the first ruling by appeal judges on the issue, Lord Justice Wall condemned the idea that arson and acts of revenge likely to result in murder were matters of “honour” for Muslim familes. As he gave a controversial ruling refusing a Muslim father permission to challenge the placing of his children in care with non-Muslim foster parents, the judge said that the activities brought to light by the case had nothing to do with any concept of honour known to English law. “They are acts of simply sordid, criminal behaviour and a refusal to acknowledge them as such," he added. "