The column Our culture must combat injustices (SN 2/11) concerning a Turkish man killing his daughter over her talking to a boy suggests that domestic violence is a problem that women in America don’t face. The author comments on the girl’s killing with “Many might automatically jump to the conclusion of specific religions being the primary reason for such injustices. It isn’t always about religion, but rather ignorance.”

Rather, domestic abuse and violence against women is an affliction that women of all religions, be it Islam or Christianity, face in all its forms. The examples given of a Turkish girl being the victim of an honor killing and an American girl facing abuse in the form of her being besmirched on a bathroom wall as a “huge skank” distort the universal struggle women have against violence, whether it occurs in Turkey, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Germany or East Lansing.