What do Daniel Perel, Nick Berg, Jews in Hebron in 1955 and members of the Vogel family have in common? They were slaughtered. 

They were not simply killed by knife stabs, but a deliberate operation was performed on them designed to cut off their heads or cause them to bleed fatally from the jugular vein. Another detail they all have in common: they were slaughtered by Muslims. 

One can add to them countless Muslim girls and women who were slaughtered around the world in a similar way by their brothers, their fathers or other relatives, against the background of what is known as "the dishonor of the family". 

The question that arises is where does this tendency of Muslims come from butcher their victims.

The answer to this is simple: slaughter is a common and routine practice among many Muslim families. Many Muslim children see how their ancestors slaughter a lamb to celebrate an important event, and the whole family on Eid al-Adha, the holiday of the sacrifice, is present during the slaughter of the sacrifice, which is part of the holiday's mitzvot.

On the other hand, in modern societies, slaughtering animals for the purpose of consuming their meat is done in slaughterhouses, away from the eyes of the public and especially from the eyes of children. People get the meat to eat when it is usually free of blood and hair, cut and ready to cook or eat. Meat in this sterile state spares the public the sight of the slaughter, the blood and the sounds that accompany it. In the West, many of those who were present when an animal was slaughtered, become vegetarians.

But in many Islamic societies, slaughtering is usually done at home, in front of the boys and girls, and it becomes part of their daily routine. They are immune to the sight of the slaughter, are not moved by the blood oozing from the animal's neck and are not horrified by its snoring and convulsions. In many cases, the children hold the sheep's legs during the slaughter to pin it to the ground, and they feel very well its intense reactions when the knife slices its throat in terrible pain. The presence and involvement of the children in the act of slaughter makes them mentally immune to its effects, and as they grow older they observe the custom of slaughtering the victim with their own hands and knives, in the presence of their children.

The mental immunity from the act of slaughter allows a Muslim to resort to this method whenever he feels that he must get rid of someone definitively.

Slaughtering a lamb on the Feast of the Sacrifice is accompanied by the recitation "In the name of Allah, the Merciful and the Merciful", and the slaughter of girls who do not behave properly is also carried out in a kind of execution ceremony.

The butcher feels that he is doing an important and worthy deed, in a routine action that he has been used to since childhood.

To members of Western societies, slaughter seems barbaric, while members of Muslim societies see slaughter as a proper and correct act, when adapted to the situation in which it is carried out.

Therefore, slaughtering a Jew, a Christian or someone else perceived as an enemy is not considered in a traditional Islamic society as an act that deviates from the known routine. This is what is known in professional parlance as a "cultural difference".