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Cultural Influence and Natural Impulse

Russell Pangborn: The fact that a religious or cultural influence is responsible for overriding that natural impulse, resulting in one honour killing every 90 minutes somewhere in the world, is an appalling, powerful statistic, according to Toronto Star. Saba Qaiser father, who brutally beat his daughter, shot her in the head and dumped her in the river, should not be able to avoid jail and walk free while bragging about his misguided principles. In some situations, a number of us would sacrifice our lives to save our children. Canada has a multicultural society and prides itself on accepting all cultures and religions and I am fine with that. Russell Pangborn, Keswick But no matter what your religion or culture is you should be able to answer true or false to this statement in a citizenship test: In some cases a father is justified in killing his daughter when the family reputation is in jeopardy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.