Barbarians?

From several months back:

Police in Berlin arrested three Muslim brothers in what appears to be the latest in a series of so-called "honor killings."

The slaying of a 23-year-old Turkish woman, Hatun Surucu, who died of multiple bullet wounds to the head and chest, bears all the marks of an honor killing, a police psychologist said, according to BBC News.

"In Islamic culture, the woman is the bearer of the family decency," explained Karl Mollenhauer. "She must maintain the honor of the family. Men must defend that honour."

It would be the sixth honor killing in as many months among Berlin's 200,000-member Turkish community and the 45th in the past eight years.

Surucu had taken her 5-year-old son and run away from her husband of eight years, a cousin with whom she was united in an arranged marriage.

The killing has prompted an unusually strong response, with Turkish women taking to the streets to protest, the BBC said.

"This tragedy has shaken us awake. We've been very surprised by the response," Eren Unsal from the Association of Secular Turks told BBC News.

Unsal noted that for the first time, political decision-makers and private groups in the community have been willing to sit down together to talk about addressing the problem.

The BBC reported, however, that just yards from the site of the killing, children on a school playground were heard praising it, saying the victim had lived like a German.

"Living like a German" is a reason for execution in the children's minds?
Despair for the future as well.