To assert that people asking questions about honour killings in Muslim communities are bigots is unnecessarily defensive. 'If you're not with me you're against me' is not really an attitude that is conducive to creating a spirit of understanding. Or creating much of a discussion. People with questions are not necessarily members of the BNP.
The lines between culture and religion are blurred. This is the case with Irish Catholicism and in Islam.
To make a hard and fast distinction when it suits between religion and culture, as in the case of honour killings for instance but to refuse to acknowledge that wearing a full veil is a cultural expression and not a religious imperative make no logical sense.
Face veiling is done by many Muslim women. Is that something the Koran orders?
Honour killing of females is done by some Muslim families. Is that something the Koran orders?
This is not a centrally organised religion here. You cannot base a rebuttal of the questions about honour killings in Muslim society on the basis that 'Islam says' this or that about it. It is a religion where individual scholars decide what the beliefs are and what the practices should be, what they prioritise and what their followers should prioritise. This much is abundantly clear from the proliferation of sects within Islam, with each looking down its nose at the rest and holding that it is the only one that has managed to keep the true fire burning. No-one can quote the Koran and insist that their interpretation is what Islam is all about because there will always be someone else saying something else -- that women must be veiled, that jihad must be carried out against America, that girls should not be educated, that boys' education should consist of religious education only, that Israel must be destroyed, etc., and that there is no contradiction whatsoever between all of that and the intention of the Prophet when the religion was first founded.
Cote, just to correct an assertion of yours about Christians worshipping beings other than God -- Christians do not worship beings besides God. Even Catholics, who believe that there are saints, etc., do not worship them. Saints (even Mary) are seen as exemplary, not godlike but examples of the love of God working in the world, our brothers and sisters in Christ, whether alive or dead, who can pray for us and with us (praying for and with our brothers and sisters is a biblical injunction). The focus of prayers is always God (who is held to have three persons, father, son and holy spirit). An example is the Rosary focusing on the life of Jesus.
CrescentMoon -- wrt Leviticus:
'Each major element of the Levitical code has both a valid historical reason and a figurative or mystical meaning'.
Christianity focuses on the figurative or mystical meaning and sees the New Testament as the fulfillment of the promises made or implied in the Old Testament. Hence the structure of the RC church (echoing the Levite priesthood), the centrality of sacrifice (as in the consecration of the Eucharist in RC Mass) and other details that focus on structure, sacrifice, and the relationship between God and people. Leviticus was the book of daily law of the Israelites, prescribing the minutiae of worship and daily life for that particular group. Christianity was the emergence of the new law that superseded the old.
Extraneous elements from Leviticus were eliminated from the Christian canon. The precise letter of the law (the injunction to burn a daughter who profaned her upbringing for instance) was taken at figurative value and the reason behind it teased out -- the basic thought there was discerned to be the need for a priest and the priestly caste to be pure. In Catholicism the interpretation of this injunction to be pure means that a priest should take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, so ideally there should not be a daughter in the picture. RC theology (I can't speak for any protestant interpretation) focuses on the underlying reason for the injunction to burn a daughter who dishonours the household of the priest, and that reason is the necessity for a priest to be pure. The person of the priest is subsumed into the office (when a man becomes a priest he leaves being a man behind in a spiritual sense and in a sexual sense); allowing personal corruption means corruption of the office and hence defilement of the religion.
If you are interested in reading a detailed exposition on the subject of Leviticus and Catholicism.