DEAR NAIR, ISLAM NEVER ADVOCATE ANY TYPE OF VOILENCE. MUSLIMS ARE HERE ABOUT 1400 YEARS. SO THE BAD PRACTICES, HABIT, CULTURE AND RELIGIIN PENETRATED IN THE MUSLIMS' LIFE. THE INCIDENTS YOU QUOTED, THE ONLY RESULT OF IMPACT OF BAD PRACTICES OF HINDUISM WHIHC OVERWHEMLY INFLUENCED TO THE NORMAL MUSLIM. THIS IS NOT RELATED TO ISLAM. IN ISLAM SUICIDE AND KILLING BOTH ARE PROHIBITED. THIS HINDU CULTURE WHO ADVOCATING SATI PRATHA AND NOT RESPECTING THE WOMEN.