Tel-Chai Nation

The Jerusalem Post reports of an attack by Muslims on a Christian village after a Muslim woman was found having a forbidden affair with a Christian man. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.)

Efforts were under way on Sunday to calm the situation in this Christian village east of Ramallah after an attack by hundreds of Muslim men from nearby villages left many houses and vehicles torched.

The incident began on Saturday night and lasted until early Sunday, when Palestinian Authority security forces interfered to disperse the attackers. Residents said several houses were looted and many families were forced to flee to Ramallah and other Christian villages, although no one was injured.

The attack on the village of 1,500 was triggered by the murder of a Muslim woman from the nearby village of Deir Jarir earlier this week. The 30-year-old woman, according to PA security sources, was apparently murdered by members of her family for having had a romance with a Christian man from Taiba.

"When her family discovered that she had been involved in a forbidden relationship with a Christian, they apparently forced her to drink poison," said one source. "Then they buried her without reporting her death to the relevant authorities."

Under Islam, as Robert Spencer explains, while Muslim men are allowed to marry Christian women, Muslim women are forbidden to marry Christian men, and under Islamic-Arab custom, it's possible for the family to murder the woman for violating "family honor".

But of course, it isn't honor at all.

One Jerusalem's also got a topic that talks about the subject.

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