AUSTRALIAN JUDGE: ''THE WHOLE BASIS AND ORIGIN OF HONOUR KILLINGS IS THE NOTION THAT A WOMAN IS THE CHATTEL OR POSSESSION OF A MAN … SUCH A NOTION HAS NO PLACE IN THIS COUNTRY.''

From Atlas Shrugs:

If this were happening in America, Hamas-CAIR would insist that the honor murderer's religious rights were violated, and that the NSW Supreme Courtjustice was an islamophobe. The Justice said, "women are not the chattels or possession of men."

But under Islam, they are. That's the rub. That's the sharia.

18 years is hardly enough. Life without parole. Period.

'Honour' killing abhorrent, says judge, as man convicted and son starts 18-year term The Ridge News

SO CALLED ''honour killings'' have no place in Australian society and must be seriously punished because women are not the chattels or possession of men, a NSW Supreme Court justice has said.