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  A Muslim practice where a male family member (usually the father) kills a female family member ( usually his daughter) for "dishonorable" conduct. Like dating, kissing someone or being raped.
  It's a pretty sick and disgusting practice.
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  I did my family tree and found a very distant cousin (not a direct ancestor) who was a serial killer. He’s the guy they wrote about in Devil in the White City. (Corrected to say distant cousin, not distinct.) >
  
  Almost enough to dox yourself.  Here's hoping your history is clean. >
  
  He said very distant cousin. So they could be one of hundreds of people. >
  
  Technically we are all distant cousins. The most recent individual common ancestor of almost all humans is probably only from 2000-4000 years ago (of course not in the sense that we branched out in the main since then, but that due to the exponentially increasing number of ancestors as we go back each generation to ~10^24 only 2000 years back, people moving around, and incidental mixing, the most recent person who ‘happens’ to be in the ancestry of almost all of us, including most of Africa, Europe, Asia and the New World today is almost certainly more recent than we’d naively expect). That’d be maybe 100-200 generations, making almost all of us at most 100-200th cousins - for just a particular pair of two random humans, the most recent common ancestor is very probably even more recent.
  The only people likely excluded are in those small long-isolated pockets like North Sentinel Island, and even then they may have been isolated recently enough not to be an exception. >
  
  Dont be fucking your 100th cousin >
  
  I don't, I stay within the first 3 to keep the bloodline pure but not too pure >
  
  Get him milk to drink! >
  
  My great great grandfather killed his wife with an axe and then hung himself. Didn’t hear about this story until my grandparents were moving out of their house, I found an old ass photograph of them and asked who’s that? >
  
  Holy fuck dude. At least they had kids first 😯 >
  
  As opposed to having kids after? >
  
  Now I'm laughing in the bus, people are looking, I should just show them your comment >
  
  My grandfather was a parachute instructor for the 101st during WWII. He didn’t kill anyone himself, but taught hundreds of guys to do just that >
  
  My grandad was born in 1941, so he wasn't in the army for obvious reasons, but one of his brothers was in the army and fought in Italy, and another was in the RAF, apparently he was a gunner on a Lancaster bomber, need to find a way to confirm that one.
  Also said his dad was in WW I, seems very likely, but again, I've not been able to confirm that. >
  
  Killing an enemy during war is not murder. >
  
  War is literally nothing but state-sanctioned mass-murder. >
  
  Which by definition means it's not murder since murder is defined as "premeditated unlawful killing of a human being by another." >
  
  The Holocaust was lawful.  
  Are you suggesting that butchering millions of people doesn't qualify as mass-murder because the government says it's okay? >
  
  My mother's side last name literally means "proficient at killing" after our ancestor killed a bunch of English people. 
  It was all the hype in 1400, not sure you'd get praise if you tried to copycat his success story. >
  
  A pleasure to meet you, Mr. Killian! >
  
  Googled my own name and found I have the same name as a murderer and they lived about 40 miles away from where I live, they currently in jail. >
  
  So the wrong one went to jail? And you're out here free with us? >
  
  My grandfather murdered his mistress and their unborn child by blasting them with a shotgun. He died in prison 2 years ago, thankfully. >
  
  My father was a ww2 vet. My grandfather a WW1 vet. I'm the first in three generations that hasn't killed anyone. >
  
  You need to be a WW3 Vet lol >
  
  Not going to be any vets from that one. >
  
  Here in Germany, it's mostly even in the last 4 generations due to WW2. Almost everyone has some ancestor that fought back then. >
  
  We ugh, we just going to ignore the elephant in the room? >
  
  Of course they were all nazi bastards. Many Germans want to forget that they have Nazis in their family tree but denying won't change it. They were Nazis and they deserved to die. >
  
  Wasn’t there forced conscription in ww2? Innocent men who were forced to follow orders do not deserve to die >
  
  I bloody hope so. I am not doing all the work in the family name. >
  
  Don’t have to go that far back….my father was a murderer at 14. >
  
  Sorry, dude. That must be hard. >
  
  Nah he never did any time. It was an honor killing in a rural part of the mid east. I think it’s vile but he never faced any repercussions. >
  
  What is honor killing?