Аннотация:This article discusses a Swedish verdict in which the cultural affiliation of an Arab man who has killed his own daughter is used as an extenuating circumstance. The meaning of gender functions as a point of departure from which the court's description of Arab and Swedish culture as opposites is called into question. That which, on an explicit level, is said to be an expression of opposite norms for gender might, if one takes a closer look, show crucial similarities.
