Dishonor amongst barbarians. A young Saudi Arabian woman from Riyadh was murdered by her father after she was discovered in the middle of an online conversation with a man on the social network site Facebook, the al-Arabiya website reported.
The War on Muslim Women
It is a culture in which shame and honor repeatedly play antagonistic roles and in which the abuse of women is the norm. From The War on Muslim Women: More than 25 “honor killings” have been confirmed in Britain’s Muslim community in recent years. Many more are suspected. In Basra, Iraq, more than 40 women who wear Western-style clothing have been killed so far this year by...
Father killed daughter for not wearing hijab
Daddy knows best? Shyeah, riiiiiiiiight. A murder in Canada, via Breitbart: Friends and classmates of a 16-year-old girl who police say was murdered by her Muslim father in a Toronto suburb told local media Tuesday she was killed for not wearing a hijab. Police said in a statement they received an emergency call at 7:55 am local time Monday from “a man who indicated that he had just killed...
Gaza: Where Murder of Women Is Easy
From Gaza: Gaza: Where Murder of Women Is Easy: At 10 p.m., Yehia Abu Moghaseb, a Gaza gravedigger, watched several men lift three large bundles wrapped in black plastic from the back of a car and carelessly dropped them into freshly dug pits lined with cinderblocks at the Martyrs’ Cemetery in Wadi Salgah. They shoveled a few scoops of sand on top, before driving off. “There’s...
Honor killings: Defying a Clan Code of Silence on Unspeakable Crimes
From Defying a Clan Code of Silence on Unspeakable Crimes: The Abu Ghanem women are buried just inside the main gate of the old Muslim cemetery in Ramla, Israel, eight in the last seven years. So-called honor killings among Muslims are a phenomenon across the Middle East, including in Israel, where Arabs, most of them Muslim, make up almost 20% of the population. The Israeli police and courts...
‘This time, we said, enough’ (Arab women speaking out against “honor” killings)
A little glimmer of evolution. From Ha’aretz: “This time, we said ‘enough.’ Every year they murder not one, but two of us. We’ve had enough.” That is what a female memberof the Abu-Ghanem family from Ramle said this week to Haaretz. Along with another 20 female relatives, she decided to rebel against tradition. One by one, they reported to police investigators...
Turkey Works to Stop “Honor” Killings
From Turkey Works to Stop “Honor” Killings: The killing of women and girls by male relatives who think the females have brought shame to the family’s honor is an atrocity that has plagued Turkey and other Islamic countries for generations. Thousands of women have died, been attacked or compelled to commit suicide in so-called honor killings. In Turkey, the government has...
From a Muslim outlook, imams have missed the point on flight behavior
For whatever this is worth, I am republishing this article, from the Arizona Republic in full. I disagree that the majority of American Muslims are aligned with M. Zuhdi Jasser , the author of this article. If that were the case, M. Zuhdi Jasser would be just one of thousands of Muslims in America writing with the same sentiment. Sadly, M. Zuhdi Jasser is the only American Muslim I know of at...
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