And, remember, Jordan is one of the most liberal of Arab states (far more so than, say, Kuwait or - possibly worst of all - Saudi).

Strictly speaking, in more liberal Arab states, there is no legal justification for "honour" killings (i.e. they are still murder in legal terms) - but practice is that they would never be brought to court.

This is rather close to my heart . . but, as I have said before, do resist the temptation to raise UK or US society to a higher plane than Arab societies on the single basis of their treatment of women. And that's very much the view of our Arab women friends, including those living in the west.

G.