Honor killings

in Texas?

Sacrificing one's children to an angry and vengeful god is as old as religion, and was a staple of Punic culture, most (in)famously in Carthage, where babies were sacrificed to appease their gods. It's somewhat hazy, but one version has the sacrifice being to the god Baal in a ritual called moloch; other versions have the god named Moloch. In any event, as Will Cuppy noted, they did this to save their own skins, since it obviously did the children no good.

It is inherently selfish on the part of the parents, particularly the fathers. And it is a mark of barbarity that has no place in civilization. Indeed, it is the opposite of civilization.

One might use these descriptions for the version of the Islamic faith that demands such practices. Anyone who insists on doing this stuff, or that it is somehow OK, should be taken out and shot. It is absolutely unacceptable.