Muslims have an obsession with honour killings - Allah Hu Akbar!

Do you know that honour killings are mostly committed in Muslim regions?

• http://www.photius.com/countries/saudi_arabia/national_security/saudi_arabia_national_security_crime_and_punishment.html 
  

  Well to me it wasn’t a surprise because we are always hearing or seeing certain Muslims blowing themselves up and taking other innocent people with them. In addition, we also hear how some Muslim regions like Saudi Arabia are known as a strict country which emphasizes legal punishments such as death for committing crimes such as adultery, murder, drug smuggling and also one can be executed under certain conditions of raping and committing armed robber
• So you can’t blame the Muslim regions for having a high number of honour killings because their laws are strict and anything seen as immoral would be quickly taken into account. The fact that there legal punishments are so strict and severe shows that people justify honour killings in Muslim regions because they regard the actions or behaviour of the girl or guy as immoral which for them death can easily be justified.
• I believe these people who kill innocent lives have no respect for other people’s life so for them killing a woman or a man because of dishonour doesn’t make a difference.
• Viewing a couple of websites i have come to the conclusion that  most honour killings are carried out in Muslim regions. "Thousands of such killings have occurred in Muslim countries such as Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, and Palestinian territories, according to the World Health Organization." http://www.truthandgrace.com/muslimhonorkilling.htm
• The websites which indicate that honour killings are popular in the Muslim world are: http://www.islamawareness.net/HonourKilling/honour_killings.pdf
• http://www.mwlusa.org/topics/violence&harrassment/hk.html
• http://www.ccgm.org.au/articles/Articles/ARTICLE-0109.htm

Not all Muslim countries practice this dreadful activity.

• Another useful website which I came across mentioned that “Honour killings happen only to some designated Muslim nations such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, the Gaza strip and the West Bank (Palestine), Jordan, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Somalia, Turkey, Iran and some other south and central Asian countries”http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/SKM50702.htm

Looking at this picture doesn’t it make you cringe? Don`t you feel sorry for the woman because I certainly do. Is this Islamic?

Looking through these websites and reading the materials which are provided by the authors the questions which concern me are: 

 Are honour killings just a problem which is faced only by Muslims?

 Or is it a problem which is faced by many, irrespective of being a Muslim.