Honor killing may be defined as the premeditated murder of a person by a close relative on behalf of a family, tribe, or group as a means of restoring the group’s honor by retaliating against a group member judged to have brought public dishonor upon them. Honor killing has long history in many cultures. It is little known or understood in the West, but is becoming more common there as immigration from practicing groups increases. Honor is the pre-eminent value in many collectivistic societies where the group is considered more important than the individual. Such societies take actions which cause dishonor very seriously because dishonor affects the entire group. Actions of women and even rumors about their behavior, especially sexual behavior, may lead to honor killing in this setting. This paper will examine the practice, how it is viewed in cultures which practice it, how Judeo-Christian and Islamic scriptures bear on this problem, and efforts to stop the practice. The latter have been largely ineffective and have included legal strategies, efforts to increase enforcement of existing laws, grass roots and international efforts based on human rights, economic sanctions for abusing human rights, efforts by community leaders to lead and encourage change, efforts to achieve a “critical mass” for social/cultural change, and efforts to convince men that honor killing affects entire families and is not purely a women’s problem. New ideas and efforts are badly needed. Because one’s culture is assumed and largely transparent to the individual who has not been exposed to other cultures, one effective strategy might be to develop ways to bring cultural assumptions to light so they can be consciously examined. An effective means to that end may be the use of questions to bring about a “disorienting dilemma” and provoke critical reflection on the issue. The paper will propose questions which might be used to create disorienting dilemmas and challenge people who believe in this practice to reconsider it.