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Rifqa Bary, the 17-year old girl raised as a Muslim who converted to Christianity and ran away from home, claiming her parents were going to murder her, suddenly turned up on a conference call a few days ago, led by Shirley Dobson, wife of Focus on the Family’s James Dobson, ...
Islam, Rifqa Bary, Honor Killing, Apostasy, bigotry, Anti-Islam, Tony Perkins, Religious Right, James Dobson
The anti-Islam blogs have been hyperventilating for months over the case of Rifqa Bary — a Muslim teenager who converted to Christianity, ran away from home, and found a new home with a radical fundamentalist Christian preacher, Blake Lorenz of the “Global Revolution Church.” People like Pamela Geller and Robert ...
Islam, Rifqa Bary, Honor Killing, Apostasy, bigotry, Anti-Islam, Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller
The story of one of the most disgusting publicity stunts I think I’ve ever heard of: Chris Selley: How not to memorialize Aqsa Parvez. As the Toronto Sun’s Joe Warmington reported last week, the online campaign to properly memorialize Aqsa has been led by one Pamela Geller, proprietor of ...
Honor Killing, Aqsa Parvez, Publicity Stunt, Pamela Geller, Idiocy
Here’s a good essay by Phyllis Chesler on the question: Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence?
When modern society collides with powerful traditions from the Dark Ages, women die: Police: Arranged marriage led father to kill daughter. A Clayton County man faces murder charges in the strangling death of his 25-year-old daughter early Sunday over her desire to end an arranged marriage. Chaudhry Rashad, 54, ...
Remember this horrifying story the next time an Islamic advocacy group tries to tell you that wearing the hijab is a completely voluntary choice for Muslim women: Murder Charge for Brother Whose Sister Shed Scarf. TORONTO — The brother of a Canadian teenager who was slain in what friends described ...
LGF, Islam, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Hijab, Headscarf, Honor Killing
Sickening. And this depraved murderer will probably get (at most) a slap on the wrist: Khaleej Times Online - Jordan police question family for ‘honour killing’. AMMAN - The Jordanian authorities are questioning a 22-year- old man, who allegedly killed his pregnant married sister for reasons related to family ...
At least 17,000 women are victims every year. Up to 17,000 women in Britain are being subjected to “honour” related violence, including murder, every year, according to police chiefs. And official figures on forced marriages are the tip of the iceberg, says the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO). ...
Honor Killing, Britain, Women's Rights, Misogyny, LGF, Islam
I was practicing the 24-hour rule on this story because it’s important not to jump to conclusions (sadly, there are murders every day, even murders of children by their parents), but as more information emerges, this double murder in Texas has many of the characteristics of an “honor killing:” Lewisville ...
Modern reconstructive surgery meets the Dark Ages: Why one Muslim girl became a born-again virgin for her wedding night. When Aisha Salim marries her fiance in Pakistan next March, it will be the wedding of her dreams. Wearing a veil and gown, she will be every inch the fairytale ...
The 16-year old girl who was attacked and strangled by her own father in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga for refusing to wear the Muslim head scarf has died. UPDATE at 12/11/07 9:39:13 am: It’s almost unbelievable, but the ultra-left Toronto Star is actually trying to whitewash this story: Hijab ...
Honor Killing, Canada, Women's Rights, Misogyny, LGF, Radical Islam
A Pakistani Muslim cab driver in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga has been arrested for trying to kill his own daughter, reportedly because she refused to wear the hijab. A 16-year-old girl is in critical condition after being choked by a man believed to be her father, apparently after ...
Honor Killing, Canada, Women's Rights, Misogyny, LGF, Radical Islam
An absolutely sickening story of barbarism from Hamas’ Islamic paradise in Gaza: Caught on tape: How a 16-year-old girl was lynched in Gaza. UPDATE at 9/29/07 3:04:31 pm: Well, it’s certainly an evil, barbaric video, but it looks like someone has misled Khaled Abu Toameh on this one; it seems ...
LGF, Palestinians, Fatah, Hamas, Gaza, Honor Killing, Misogyny
The practice of “honor killing” is sickening enough, but this horrifying story sets a new benchmark in depravity: Woman raped before honor killing: court. LONDON (Reuters) - A Kurdish woman was brutally raped, stamped on and strangled by members of her family and their friends in an “honor killing” carried ...
The Dark Ages comes to Pennsylvania: Police: Father, Son Try To Kidnap Daughter’s Fiancé. MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A Bucks County father was accused of going to extremes to break-up his daughter’s romance. Police said the father and his son tried to kidnap her fiancé by beating him up and ...
Britain’s Sunday Telegraph reports that “honor killings” are becoming appallingly common in the UK—in a three-page article that never once mentions the “M” word: Revealed: rising toll of deaths before dishonour. A Sunday Telegraph investigation has established that honour killings are increasing rapidly in Britain. Home Office statistics suggest that ...
LGF, Britain, Multiculturalism, Londonistan, Dhimmitude, Islam, Honor Killing
This time it’s a pregnant teenager, originally from Pakistan, living in Manchester, followed to her new home by the Dark Ages: Husband of ‘honour killing’ teenager arrested on suspicion of murder. The husband of a pregnant teenager found stabbed to death has been arrested on suspicion of her murder. The ...
LGF, Britain, Multiculturalism, Londonistan, Dhimmitude, Islam, Honor Killing
Here’s an example of an “honor killing” (a horrible term for an evil practice) that is not linked to Islam or perpetrated by Muslims. In this case the Dark Ages barbarism was committed by members of the Yazidi religion, a pre-Islamic, pre-Christian pagan faith, and the girl was murdered because ...
People keep talking about giving the Palestinians a state, but in truth, they already have one—a society that sanctions and breeds murderers: Gazans upset by three suspected ‘honor killings’. Three Palestinian women have been murdered in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, Palestinian Authority security officials and local ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Death Cult, Militant Islam, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Honor Killing
In the blood-stained annals of “honor killing,” this is surely one of the most appalling stories ever to emerge: Abu-Ghanem women speak out against serial ‘honor killings’. The murder of Hamda Abu-Ghanem, whose bullet-riddled body was found in mid-January at her parents’ house in Ramle, surprised nobody. As police ...
Honor Killing, Islam, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Palestinians
A horrible atrocity in Britain: Father killed family for being too western. A father killed his wife and four daughters in their sleep because he could not bear them adopting a more westernised lifestyle, an inquest heard yesterday. Mohammed Riaz, 49, found it abhorrent that his eldest daughter wanted to ...
Police: Chicago Man Bludgeoned Relatives to Death Because He Felt ‘Disrespected’. CHICAGO &md ash; An enraged Iranian immigrant used a 3-pound hammer to beat his wife, sister-in-law and mother-in-law to death and then stabbed them repeatedly because he felt “disrespected,” police said Monday. After the attack, Daryoush Ebrahimi, 55, also struck ...
Honor Killing, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Chicago, Assyrian Christian
Another “honor killing” reported today in Jordan, the showcase “moderate” Arab Islamic state, where Islamist legislators have consistently blocked tougher laws to deal with the barbaric practice: Father kills daughter; doubted virginity. This poor girl was killed because her father was an obsessed paranoid freak, who refused to believe she ...
Turkey’s government and ruling elites are eager to be admitted to the European Union, but there are certain cultural/religious traditions that could be deal breakers for the Europeans. Such as “honor killing.” So the Turkish government has launched an unprecedented campaign against the barbaric practice: Turkey works to stop ‘honor’ ...
A teenage girl in Australia made the mistake of telling her parents she didn’t want to be a Muslim: Religion blamed for stabbing. (Hat tip: NJDhockeyfan.) A RELIGIOUS feud between a Muslim father and his teenage daughter may have sparked a bloody domestic dispute on the Gold Coast which left ...