Stories not at all unlike this happen in all sorts of cultures following all sorts of religion.
No, they
don't. Honor killing and FGM are
not the province of numerous religions. And, Di, it's pretty glib- sick, really- to try to place
filicide on a par with the Jimmy Swaggarts and Jim Bakkers. It's not only a tu quoque, it's a false tu quoque, it's a morally insulting tu quoque.
And while various diocesia engaged in a shameful coverup of priestly paedophilia, nowhere ever, ever, ever has the Church claimed that priests have the right (or even the obligation!) to molest little boys- which would be the only remotely equivalent situation.
Moreover, I would remind you that in many countries, marriage to children as young as 9 or even 6 is completely legal, and common. And, no, these countries do not represent a spectrum of religions.
Like the ghastly distortion of Christianity that went on during the Crusades
You mean the first serious Western counteroffensive against Islamic imperialism, attempting to reclaim formerly Christian Byzantine territory? I am SO tired of the PC meme that the Crusades represented some sort of horrendous crime on a par with the Holocaust. It is the lamest sort of false moral equivalence and revisionist history.
Or perhaps you mean the Holy-War-with-free-tickets-to-paradise? Gee, I wonder where Pope Urban might have picked up that idea......
But, again, it's not the Vatican that STILL pushes that belief now, in the 21st century, is it?