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The Independent has unearthed after a 10-month-long probe into chilling honor killings in the Middle Eastern area that they are rapidly increasing. Amnesty International suggests that only around 5,000 of these killings happen a year, while other figures suggest around 20,000 annually.

Sadly, honor killings â€" the practice of killing someone for something he/she did wrong to restore honor back to the household, is not entirely a Muslim practice, like many thought. However, in areas where it’s practiced, Christians and Hindus have, and are, for the most part abandoning the brutality.

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