Muslims believe very strongly in the inferiority of women, and they take every opportunity to prove it.
This page contains news and commentary about so-called "honor killings" and other ways that Islam treats
women like livestock. These incidents occur in the U.S., Canada and England, yet the great feminist
leaders — the cowards! — are all totally silent. One would think that the feminists
would have the loudest voices in support of a war that brought democracy to Iraq and allowed women
to vote — and girls to attend school — for the first time.
Rape
as 'Resistance': On October 31, 2008, an Egyptian female lawyer by the name of Nagla Al-Imam
suggested on the Arab TV channel "Al-Arabiya" that Arab men should sexually harass Israeli women, stating:
"Leave the land so we won't rape you." She then argued that Israeli young girls and women are fair game
for all Arab men and that there is nothing wrong in using this kind of threat as a form of resistance.
Situating
Honorcide: The subject of "honor killings" is gradually becoming a matter of public controversy these
days. The incidence of these crimes appears to be rising although the response to them is ambiguous and
vacillating. There is little doubt that something alarming is happening — and has been happening for a
long while — and that what we are really witnessing is a form of culture-specific violent behavior. But
the general tendency among Muslim spokespeople and social activists is to average out these tragic events as
part of a garden variety social phenomenon that is statistically inevitable.
Girl
set alight for wearing lipstick. An 11-year-old girl has been set on fire by a relative in
India's northern city of Jaipur for wearing lipstick and being inappropriately dressed. Police say the
girl suffered burns over 90 percent of her body and her chances of survival are bleak. They've
arrested her great uncle who allegedly poured kerosene on the girl and set her alight yesterday. Investigators
say the 55-year-old man, a conservative Muslim, told the police he was enraged at the girl wearing lipstick and
being scantily dressed. But relatives have accused the man of trying to molest the girl and setting her
on fire when she objected.
Woman murdered in 'honour killing'.
A Jordanian man has murdered his sister for allegedly leaving home without permission, a security official said today.
"The crime took place in the (southern) province of Aqaba four days ago. The man claimed that he killed his sister
to cleanse his family's honour," the official said. The official refused to elaborate "because the authorities are
still investigating the killing". In Jordan, between 15 and 20 women are murdered annually in the name of
"honour". Last year 17 such killings were recorded.
Women are the Losers When We Concede to
the Muslim Hardliners. It is extraordinary that a government which has made such a fetish
of its commitment to equality should be creating a legal system which enshrines open discrimination against
women. For, like the rest of Islamic culture, sharia is profoundly misogynistic with women treated
as second-class citizens in everything from child custody to inheritance. Thanks to political
correctness, there has been a reluctance to tackle the oppression of women by Muslim men.
Somali woman executed by stoning. A woman
in Somalia has been stoned to death after an Islamic Sharia law court found her guilty of adultery. The woman was
buried up to her neck and then pelted to death with stones in front of a large crowd in Kismayo.
Raped girl, 13, stoned to
death. A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death in Somalia after being
accused of adultery by Islamic militants, a human rights group said. Dozens of men stoned Aisha Ibrahim
Duhulow to death on October 27 in a stadium packed with 1,000 spectators in the southern port city of Kismayo,
Amnesty International and Somali media reported, citing witnesses.
Stoning victim 'begged for mercy'.
A young woman recently stoned to death in Somalia first pleaded for her life, a witness has told the BBC.
"Don't kill me, don't kill me," she said, according to the man who wanted to remain anonymous. A few
minutes later, more than 50 men threw stones. Human rights group Amnesty International says the victim
was a 13-year-old girl who had been raped.
A war of words over honour killings.
In its initial poster seeking fugitive Texas cab driver Yasser Abdel Said — sought for the double homicide
of his teenaged daughters — the bureau said he disapproved of their dating non-Muslim boys and stated that
they were murdered "due to an 'Honour Killing.' Though family members speculated that the father's Islamic
belief motivated the crime, the use of the phrase "honour killing" incensed the local Muslim-American community,
who argued that the accused's religion should not be linked to the double homicide, which left his two daughters
dead in the back of his taxi. After a public outcry, the FBI struck the offending words three weeks ago.
Who
Is Afraid to Say "Honor Killing"? The FBI removed all mention of the controversial term "honor
killing" from the wanted poster of a double-murder suspect after FOXNews.com ran a story announcing the use
of the term. Yasser Abdel Said, wanted for the murder of his two daughters, has eluded authorities for
almost a year. ... According to family members, Said felt he was compelled to kill his daughters because they
had disgraced the family by dating non-Muslims and acting too "Western."
13-year-old
female suicide bomber kills four guards. A 13-year-old girl blew herself up at a checkpoint in central
Iraq on Monday [11/10/2008], killing four Sunni guards and wounding at least 15 civilians, a military and a medical
official said. ... Since the beginning of the year in Iraq more than 30 women have committed suicide compared with
only eight in 2007.
Laura Bush
Condemns Taliban Attack on Schoolgirls. Laura Bush, broadening her reach as a foreign policy
spokeswoman for the Bush administration, condemned the Taliban on Thursday as "cowardly and shameful" for
this week's attack on eight Afghan schoolgirls who were doused with acid.
Taliban Blamed for Acid Attack on Afghan
Schoolgirls. No students showed up at Mirwais Mena girls' school in the Taliban's spiritual
birthplace the morning after it happened. A day earlier, men on motorcycles attacked 15 girls and
teachers with acid. The men squirted the acid from water bottles onto three groups of students and
teachers walking to school Wednesday [11/12/2008], principal Mehmood Qaderi said. Some of the girls
have burns only on their school uniforms but others will have scars on their faces.
Afghan acid attack victim vows to continue
schooling. A victim of an acid attack on schoolgirls in Afghanistan says she is determined to stay
in school even if that means risking death. The girl, who gave her name as just Shamsia, was the most
seriously injured of a group of girls attacked outside their school by unidentified men in the southern city
of Kandahar on Wednesday [11/12/2008].
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buried alive 'tradition' — Pakistani pol. A Pakistani lawmaker defended a decision by
northwestern tribesmen to bury five women alive because they wanted to choose their own husbands, telling
stunned members of Parliament to spare him their outrage. "These are centuries-old traditions, and I will
continue to defend them," Israr Ullah Zehri, who represents Baluchistan province, told The Associated Press
Saturday [8/30/2008]. "Only those who indulge in immoral acts should be afraid."
This is apparently the same incident, with the
death toll revised downward...
Three teenagers buried alive
in 'honour killings'. Three teenage girls who planned to defy their families and marry men of
their choice were buried alive in "honour killings". Now the Pakistani Government has been forced to
order an inquiry, six weeks after the crimes.
Saudi cleric urges Muslim women to cover up all but
one eye. Saudi cleric Sheikh Mohammed al-Habadan has declared that a Muslim veil, or hijab, that covers
all but the eyes encourages women to use eye make-up to look seductive, the BBC reported Friday. Al-Habadan has
called on Saudi women to wear a full veil, or niqab, which covers the entire face, including one eye. The
question of how much of her face a woman should cover is a controversial topic in many Muslim societies.
Nigerian man to divorce 82 wives.
A Nigerian religious leader with 86 wives has accepted an Islamic decree ordering him to divorce all
but four of them, local authorities say. A spokesman for the emir of Bida told the BBC that Mohammadu
Bello Abubakar, 84, agreed on Saturday [8/30/2008] to comply with the decree.
Disembowelled, then torn apart:
The price of daring to teach girls. The gunmen came at night to drag Mohammed Halim away from his
home, in front of his crying children and his wife begging for mercy. The 46-year-old schoolteacher
tried to reassure his family that he would return safely. But his life was over, he was part-disembowelled
and then torn apart with his arms and legs tied to motorbikes, the remains put on display as a warning to
others against defying Taliban orders to stop educating girls.
The Sham of Women's
Rights Under the Shari'a. The United Kingdom is on taking a first step toward a parallel legal
system for Muslims, and garnering applause for it. Both the Guardian and the Telegraph have
recently lauded a new Muslim marriage contract drawn up by a group of British Muslim organizations as a
breakthrough in Muslim women's rights in the UK. … But if this new marriage contract was required to give
Muslim women equal rights, how can these rights have already been enshrined in the shari'a?
Purge on Muslim clerics who
turn a blind eye to the abuse of women. Muslim spiritual leaders could be denounced publicly by
their own community as part of a campaign to expose imams whose silence on domestic abuse is leading to women
being burnt, lashed and raped in the name of Islam. Muslim scholars are to present the Government with
the names of imams who are alleged by members of their own communities to have refused to help abused women.
Imams are also accused of refusing to speak out against domestic abuse in their sermons because they fear
losing their clerical salaries and being sacked for broaching a "taboo" subject.
Honor Killings Among the
Palestinians: If a woman brings shame to the family — through allegations of
premarital or extramarital sex, by refusing an arranged marriage, or attempting to obtain a
divorce — her male relatives are bound by duty and culture to murder her.
Father Kills
Daughter; Doubted Virginity. A Jordanian man fatally shot his 17-year-old daughter whom he
suspected of having sex despite a medical exam that proved her chastity, an official said Thursday.
The man surrendered to police hours after the killing, saying he had done it for family honor.
Sister shot six times in alleged 'honour'
killing. A 26-year-old Jordanian man was charged with murder today [8/1/2008] after his 23-year-old sister was
shot dead in an apparent "honour" killing. The unnamed suspect allegedly shot his sister six times last night in
the Nqeira area south of the capital Amman, a security official said.
Muslims "Honor" Family by
Killing Women: In Pakistan and other predominantly Muslim countries, the phrase "family values"
has a somewhat different meaning than it does in civilized countries. In the United States and Canada, for
instance, when we refer to family values we are speaking of protecting the family and its members. To
Muslims, an important part of family values involves murdering female members of the family. It is called
"honor" killing.
Honor
Killings: Made in the USA. They have dishonored our shores for quite some time and
more keep coming our way. I am talking about honor killings in North America. In The Death of
Feminism, I write about honor murders in Missouri, Ohio, and in parts of New Jersey, New York, and Canada
which took place during the last quarter-century. Earlier this month, an Egyptian Arab Muslim father
in Dallas, Texas allegedly shot his two beautiful teenage daughters to death because he disapproved of
their American-style ways.
Police Say Georgia Man Killed Own Daughter to
Protect Family Honor. The 25-year-old victim, Sandeela Kanwal, was wed in Pakistan in an
arranged marriage. Police said Kanwal hadn't seen her husband, who lives in Chicago, for months.
According to police, there was "friction between father and victim" in the weeks leading up to the killing.
Saudi ban on woman
drivers may be eroding. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that bans all
women — Saudi and foreign — from driving. The prohibition forces families to hire
live-in drivers, and women who cannot afford the $300-$400 a month for a driver must rely on male relatives to
drive them to work, school, shopping or the doctor.
Court to consider divorce for 8-year-old
girl. A Saudi court will next month hear a plea for divorce from an eight-year-old girl married off
by her father to a man in his fifties, the Arabic-language daily Al-Watan reported today [8/24/2008].
A
Response to Feminists on the Violent Oppression of Women in Islam. As recently as December 10,
a Muslim teenager was strangled by her father for refusing to wear a hijab without a protest from the American
feminist movement. And that is only one of many crimes committed in the name of Islam against Muslim
women over which the feminist movement continues to be silent. On New Year's Day, Amina Said, 18, and
her sister Sarah, 17, were shot dead in Irving, Texas. Police are searching for their father, Yaser
Abdel Said, on a warrant for capital murder. The girls' great aunt, Gail Gartrell, told reporters, "This
was an honor killing." Apparently Yaser Said murdered his daughters because they had non-Muslim
boyfriends.
'Honor'
killing comes to the US. No one knows just how many Muslim girls and women are murdered
each year in the name of family "honor," since their deaths frequently go unreported and unpunished.
The cases that do come to light are ghastly. "Women and young girls are set ablaze, strangled, shot at,
clubbed, stabbed, tortured, axed, or stoned to death," a United Nations report noted in 2004. "Their bodies
are found mutilated with their throat slit, or they are chopped into pieces and thrown in a ditch."
Islamic Shariah Law Killings On Rise In
U.S.. Fox News aired a special on July 26 dealing with the rise of so-called Muslim honor
killings in America. The special described several cases involving Muslim teenage girls who were killed by
their fathers because they were dating non-Muslim boys — or objected to arranged marriages.
Jihad Comes to Dallas.
Amina and Sarah Said were murdered in Irving, Texas, an area with a large Muslim population that is also known to some
experts as a place where Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood may be active.
Murderous Mothers:
Texas-born Patricia ("Tissie") Said, formerly of the Owens family, is the mother who lured her two teenage daughters, Sarah and Amina,
to their deaths at the hands of their own father this past New Years Day in Dallas. How can a mother do such a thing?
How Honor
Murderers Become Victims. Muslims have never launched a campaign against their own racism.
The Arab Muslim slave trade continues to this day in many forms, both in the Middle East and in the West,
especially among United Nations diplomats who are posted here. Muslim employers in Saudi Arabia are
not apologizing to their Philippina servants whom they imprison and routinely force to work around the
clock as domestics and sex slaves.
When
love is a crime: the horror of Britain's 'honour' killings. Police say 12 or
13 Britons — mainly women but very occasionally men — are the victims of honour killings
each year. Activists say the figure dramatically understates the true number and police
agree: they are reviewing 117 cases of women who died in mysterious circumstances in
the past 15 years, many of which are thought to have been honour killings.
Facing
jail: Violent husband who beat Muslim 'slave' bride 'every day' after arranged marriage. A
husband who constantly beat up his young wife and treated her as a 'slave' has been told he will be jailed.
Sania Bibi, 20, arrived in Britain from Pakistan following an arranged marriage to Haroon Akhtar and was forced
to work 17-hour days cooking, cleaning and washing clothes for his family.
A
Cutting Tradition. When a girl is taken — usually by her mother — to
a free circumcision event held each spring in Bandung, Indonesia, she is handed over to a small group of
women who, swiftly and yet with apparent affection, cut off a small piece of her genitals. … Female
genital cutting — commonly identified among international human rights groups as female genital
mutilation — has been outlawed in 15 African countries. Many industrialized countries
also have similar laws.
Oslo couple charged with mutilating their daughters.
The mother and father of five daughters born and reared in Norway have been charged in what's considered the first enforcement and test of
the country's new law against genital mutilation. The couple is originally from Gambia but both partners are now Norwegian citizens.
They have a total of six daughters, and five of the six have been subjected to genital mutilation, according to Hanne Kristin Rohde of the
Oslo Police District.
Ruth Rendell
speaks out against female genital mutilation. Female genital mutilation has been practised for
centuries, principally in the Horn of Africa; the UN estimates 6,000 young girls are subjected to it every
day, in 28 countries. Those under the age of 15 are "cut", their genitalia maimed or even removed, and
the wound sewn up. The practice is believed to encourage chastity and prevent sexual pleasure, and
many parents still believe it is the only way their daughters will be able to find good husbands.
A right to
asylum? Growing up in the West African nation of Mali, Alima Traore assumed that girls
everywhere had to undergo the procedure. "In my country, it is usually an old lady" who performs
the crude surgery, the 29-year-old woman said during an interview in her attorney's Rockville office.
"They have a traditional knife for it. They cut your intimate parts. This knife is used for
many girls."
The Subjection of
Islamic Women and the fecklessness of American feminism. The subjection of women in Muslim
societies — especially in Arab nations and in Iran — is today very much in the public
eye. Accounts of lashings, stonings, and honor killings are regularly in the news, and searing memoirs
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi have become major best-sellers. One might expect that by now American
feminist groups would be organizing protests against such glaring injustices, joining forces with the valiant
Muslim women who are working to change their societies. This is not happening.
Religion of
Peace update: The image hardly fits our idea of the happy couple's wedding picture —
but this haunting photograph taken in Afghanistan graphically captures life for millions of girls given in
marriage while under age. It shows Mohammed, 40, with his new 11-year-old wife, Ghulam.
Harems Pay Off for
Muslims. Hundreds of [Toronto area] Muslim men in polygamous marriages — some
with a harem of wives — are receiving welfare and social benefits for each of their spouses,
thanks to the city and province, Muslim leaders say. Mumtaz Ali, president of the
Canadian Society of Muslims, said wives in polygamous marriages are recognized as spouses
under the Ontario Family Law Act, providing they were legally married under Muslim laws
abroad.
The Editor asks...
What about the Muslims with 11-year-old wives? Will that be allowed, too?
11-year-old
marries 10-year-old cousin. An 11-year-old boy has married his 10-year-old cousin in the
ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Mohammed al-Rashidi and his unidentified cousin will
seal the marriage they contracted under the sharia laws of Islam and move in together after a ceremony to
take place in the summer, Al-Shams newspaper reports today.
The Editor says...
There is nothing "ultra-conservative" about arranging for your grandchildren to marry each other.
Muslim cleric
marries 12 year old. An Indonesian child protection agency is investigating reports
of a marriage between a Muslim cleric and a 12-year-old girl, the Jakarta Post newspaper reported
on Sunday. The newspaper said the 43-year-old cleric from Central Java allegedly married the
minor girl with her parents' consent in August and planned to marry two more girls, aged seven and
nine.
Britain clears the way for polygamy
benefits. Bigamy is outlawed in Britain, but authorities have never prosecuted Muslim men who
had legally married more than one woman abroad and continued to live with them after immigrating.
Shariah permits men to have up to four wives at one time.
I do, I do, I do,
I do There has been an angry, even hysterical reaction to the revelation that there are a number of
polygamous families in Canada where Muslim men are married to up to four wives. Immigration law is fluid on
the issue, with some experts arguing that immigrants already in such relationships may continue them in
Canada. … And thus the inevitable. I predict that polygamy will be legal and accepted in this
country within five years.
Murder in the Family: Honor Killings in
America. Zein Isa, a Palestinian terrorist who lived in St. Louis, was convicted of killing his
daughter Palestina in 1989. Investigators say he was furious she had a black boyfriend, went to a school
dance and got a job at Wendy's. Palestina's mother held her down as Isa plunged a 9-inch knife into his
daughter's chest, actions the FBI picked up on a microphone as they investigated Isa for his terrorist ties.
The
Islamist war on Muslim women. The "Qatif girl" won a reprieve last week. On Dec. 17,
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah pardoned the young woman, who was sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in
prison after she pressed charges against seven men who had raped her and a male acquaintance in 2006. … But
for every "Qatif girl" or Nazanin who is saved, there are far too many other Muslim girls and women for whom
deliverance never comes.
Saudi punishes gang
rape victim with 200 lashes. A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is
punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on
Thursday [11/15/2007]. The 19-year-old woman — whose six armed attackers have been sentenced
to jail terms — was initially ordered to undergo 90 lashes for "being in the car of an unrelated
male at the time of the rape," the Arab News reported.
[Bias alert: There's nothing "ultra-conservative" about punishing a woman for being raped.]
Update:
Saudi rape victim's
husband blames judge for punishment. The husband of a Saudi rape victim sentenced to 200 lashes
and six months in prison said his wife is "a crushed human being," but blamed a judge — not the
Saudi judicial system — for treating her as a criminal.
Islam vs. Women — Where are the
Feminists? If a woman is raped in an Islamic-run country, it is the woman's fault. She
will be put to death in an "honor killing," while the rapist goes free to commit other future rapes.
Still, U.S. feminists remain silent and U.S. leaders continue in their attempts to make us believe that
Islam truly is a "peaceful" religion — just misunderstood.
Imam
E-Date from Hell: A Wall Street stockbroker fears for her life after she rebuffed a Brooklyn imam
she met on a Muslim dating Web site. In an explosive $50 million lawsuit that blows the lid off the
wacky world of Muslim dating in New York, Cherine Allaithy alleges the religious leader promised he would make
her one of four future wives and boasted of a cousin in al Qaeda. When she dumped him, he trashed
her reputation in the Arab press.
Woman shot in honour killing a virgin.
Police said they had charged a Jordanian with premeditated murder after his 23-year-old sister and her boyfriend
were shot dead in an apparent "honour killing". "The suspect shot his sister four times and her Syrian
shepherd boyfriend six times when he caught them (together) red-handed early on Sunday" in the eastern Shumari
natural reserve near the desert city of Azraq, a spokesman said. "He turned himself in shortly after the
crime, and forensic tests proved that his sister was still a virgin when she was murdered."
Brother
praised for 'honor killing' attempt. A 19-year-old Israeli Arab woman has survived an attempted
"honor killing" by her brother on Tuesday in the Arab village of Na'ura, near Afula, after two bullets fired
at her head shattered on impact, failing to penetrate her skull. Paramedics said the girl survived by
playing dead, leading her brother to stop shooting and kicking her. … The 24-year-old suspect was warmly
praised by some members of his family for the attempted murder. He is in police custody.
'Honor Killing' Motive for Slain Sisters?
It's been one week since two teen sisters were found shot to death inside a cab outside a Texas hotel, and their
father, who police say is the sole suspect in the New Year's Day killings, remains at large. Authorities
tell ABC News that the investigation so far has produced few solid leads as to Yaser Abdel Said's whereabouts,
and they fear he may have fled the country, perhaps even to his native Egypt.
The Editor says...
He probably walked right on to an airplane while
the TSA people were busy
searching a little old lady.
Al-Qaida
Uses Women As Suicide Attackers. Three female suicide bombers blew themselves up
within a few weeks late last year in Iraq, killing or wounding dozens — a tactic that goes
against religious taboos on involving women in fighting and could indicate insurgents are
growing increasingly desperate.
Love, blackmail and
rape — how al-Qaeda grooms women as 'perfect weapons'. A woman pretending to be
pregnant walks up to a hospital in one of Iraq's most dangerous regions and blows herself up. Minutes
later a man, also laden with explosives, attacks the rescue workers who rushed to the scene in Diyala
province, north of Baghdad. Thirty-two people are killed and 52 wounded.
Two
Women Stoned: Feminists Mum. We continue to be stunned but not surprised by the silence of
these feminists who have questioned the authenticity of our concern for Muslim women oppressed by the laws of
Islam. The feminists who recently complained that the media has falsely represented them as indifferent
to the plight of Muslim women have so far been conspicuously indifferent to the plight of Zohreh and Azar.
Women stopped from voting
in Pakistan. Voting stopped at women-only polling stations in parts of northwest Pakistan after
elders decided that women should not cast ballots, police and officials said. … Men and women vote at
separate locations throughout Pakistan, an Islamic republic.
Using the Disabled for the
Jihad. For a while it looked as if the US military's surge was pacifying Baghdad. Now it
seems al-Qaida may have found depraved ways around new security measures — including female
"suicide" bombers, recruited from mental hospitals.
Judge orders man's leg cut
off: A Muslim court in northern Nigeria has ordered that a 45-year-old man's leg be amputated as
punishment for doing the same to his wife. The Upper Sharia in the town of Bauchi made the order against
Adamu Hussaini Maidoya, who cut off the right leg of his wife, Amina. He accused her of infidelity, after
"over exposing" herself to a doctor to get an injection.
A
question of honour: Police say 17,000 women are victims every year. Ministers are stepping
up the fight against so-called 'honour' crime and forced marriages. Detectives say official statistics
are 'merely the tip of the iceberg' of this phenomenon.
US:
Iraqi Women Bomber Trainer Caught. The U.S. military announced the capture Saturday [3/1/2008] of an insurgent leader who was
recruiting and training women, including his wife, to wrap themselves in explosives and blow
themselves up — the latest sign that al-Qaida in Iraq plans to keep using women
to carry out suicide attacks.
It's
time to take a stand against Islam and Sharia. Picture this, says Maryam Namazie: "A child
is swathed in cloth from head to toe every day. Everything but her face and hands are covered for fear
that a man might find her attractive. At school she learns that she is worth less than a boy. She
is not allowed to dance or swim or feel the sun on her skin or the wind in her hair. This is clearly
unacceptable, yet it is accepted when it is done in the name of religion."
Tortured
and murdered … by her father. The 20-year-old was raped and garrotted during an ordeal lasting
more than two-and-a-half hours at her family home in south London last year after falling in love with a man her
family thought was unsuitable. Her body was later found in a suitcase beneath a house in Birmingham,
central England. Members of her family and several family friends had plotted her murder.
Saudi women 'kept in childhood'. Saudi women
are being kept in perpetual childhood so male relatives can exercise "guardianship" over them, the Human Rights Watch group
has said. The New York-based group says Saudi women have to obtain permission from male relatives to work, travel,
study, marry or even receive health care.
Girl of 8 seeking divorce.
An eight-year-old girl has sought the help of a judge to seek a divorce after two months of forced marriage to
a 30-year-old man in Yemen, said press reports on Sunday [4/13/2008]. Nojoud Muhammad Nasser lodged a
compliant at a court in the capital, Sana'a, last week against her father who forced her to marry a man
22 years her senior, and asked the judge to secure her divorce.
Update:
Yemeni girl, 8, gets
divorce after forced marriage. Her former husband, 28-year-old Faez Ali Thameur, said he married
the child "with her consent and that of her parents" but that he did not object to her divorce petition.
In response to a question from Judge Mohammed al-Qadhi, he acknowledged that the "marriage was consummated,
but I did not beat her."
Honour killing's Aussie link:
Mortally wounded and bleeding profusely, Pela Atroshi covered her head with her hands, pleading "please don't shoot me,
please don't shoot me". As her sister and her mother screamed, her uncle Rezkar Atroshi raised his gun and killed
her. The family's honour had been cleansed. … "Pela's uncle, the oldest son of Abdulmajid, said if any of the
unmarried girls is away from home for one night, she has to be killed," Inspector Algamo said on the phone from Stockholm.
Father kills girl who fell
in love with Briton. A 17-YEAR-OLD girl has been murdered by her father in an "honour killing"
after falling in love with a British soldier in Iraq, it was reported yesterday [4/27/2008]. Rand
Abdel-Qader, from Basra, was killed after her family found out she had formed a friendship with
a 22-year-old infantryman she knew as Paul.
Saudi
man given 150 lashes for unchaperoned meeting with woman. A Saudi Arabian man has been sentenced to
eight months in prison and 150 lashes after he was caught meeting a woman without a chaperone in a coffee shop.
Militants
burn down girls' school in north-west Pakistan. 'The masked men directed me to remove all the copies of Koran
and then set the school on fire,' a watchman, Toti Gul, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. The militants also planted
homemade bombs in the school's science laboratory; however, they did not go off and were later defused by a bomb disposal
squad, the watchman said. A number of attacks on girls' schools have been reported in the past and these were believed
to be carried out by pro-Taliban fighters commanded by a local radical cleric, Maulana Fazlullah.
Jordanian woman killed to save family's honor.
A man who was suspected of drowning his 22-year-old sister for having an extramarital affair was charged Monday
[5/12/2008] with premeditated murder, a judicial official said. The unidentified woman's brother beat her
with the help of his family Saturday and then took her to the Dead Sea where he drowned her, said the official,
who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
Indian village proud after double
"honor killing". Five armed men burst into the small room and courtyard at dawn, just as
21-year-old, 22-week pregnant, Sunita was drying her face on a towel. They punched and kicked her
stomach as she called out for her sleeping boyfriend "Jassa", 22-year-old Jasbir Singh, witnesses said.
When he woke, both were dragged into waiting cars, driven away and strangled.
Egyptian
farmer hangs, decapitates daughter in 'honour' killing. An Egyptian farmer who suspected his 16-year-old
daughter was having an affair hanged her and then beheaded her body in the southern province of Bani Soueif, it was
reported Sunday [5/25/2008]. The local daily Al-Akhbar said Abdel-Samad, 46, turned himself to the police after
the killing.
Honour
killing claims life of six-year-old. A six-year-old girl was killed in an arson attack on her
family home by men who disapproved of a relationship her older brother was having with a teenager, a court
heard today [9/19/2006].
Open Season on Jewish
Women. [Naveed Afsal] Haq's brutal attack is no ordinary crime. It is the product of an
Islamic culture that denigrates women in general and a jihadist culture that specifically seeks to destroy
life. Thus, many Islamic suicide killers will purposely target pregnant women or women with small
children before they blow themselves up.
Saudis Consider Banning Women
From Mecca. Officials are considering an unprecedented proposal to ban women from performing
the five Muslim prayers in the immediate vicinity of Islam's most sacred shrine in Mecca. Some
say women are already being kept away.
Women are back under
wraps with Taliban vice squad. Afghanistan's notorious Department for the Promotion of Virtue
and Prevention of Vice, which was set up by the Taliban to enforce bans on women doing anything from working to
wearing nail varnish or laughing out loud, is to be recreated by the Government in Kabul. The decision
has provoked an outcry among women and human rights activists who fear a return to the days when religious
police patrolled the streets, beating or arresting any woman who was not properly covered by a burka or
accompanied by a male relative.
It's the
end of the world as we know it, stupid! To our tolerant Western society, it sounds
harmless enough — until you realize that the Koran encourages, indeed demands, all kinds of medieval
ideas which are anathema to free men and women. Most recently, this was illustrated by the case of a
19-year-old Saudi woman who was sentenced to 200 lashes of the whip after being gang-raped by seven men.
… It should be considered a sign of the great difficulty the West faces in assimilating the
world's 1.2 billion Muslims into the modern community that none of them could properly be offended
by the young woman's sentence without renouncing the core of their religion. Remember: The
Middle Ages never ended; they just moved to the Middle East.
Nearly 25 percent of married women in
Syria have been beaten … according to a study by the U.N. Development Fund for Women.
Making
the Muslims love us. Feminists in the United States, eager to blame fundamentalist
Christians for everything, are reluctant to criticize fundamentalist Muslims for anything. But
a cursory scan of the Internet finds several sites beginning to expose the way Muslim men both here
and abroad get a politically correct pass in the name of multicultural tolerance. When all
cultures are considered equal, it's difficult to criticize culturally protected traditions, even
if those traditions brutalize women.
Slave-girls as sexual
property in the Quran. The Quran makes women subordinate to men in many ways. But
no women subject to the rule of Quranic law are more unfortunate than slave girls. According to
the eternal and unchanging scripture of Islam, men are permitted to treat them as sexual property
regardless of their wishes, under certain specified circumstances.
Why Theo Van Gogh
Was Murdered: The filmmaker focused on the shameful abuse of Muslim
women by Muslim men in Europe.
Father Kills
Daughter; Doubted Virginity. A Jordanian man fatally shot his 17-year-old daughter whom he
suspected of having sex despite a medical exam that proved her chastity, an official said Thursday.
The man surrendered to police hours after the killing, saying he had done it for family honor.
Sister is stabbed to death for loving
the wrong man. A [British] businessman is facing a life sentence for stabbing his sister to death in front
of his two young daughters in a so-called honor killing. Azhar Nazir, 30, and his cousin, 17, used four
knives to cut Samaira Nazir's throat and repeatedly stab her after she fell in love with an asylum-seeker from
what they saw as an unsuitable caste. … The father was also charged with the murder but fled to Pakistan,
where he has gone into hiding.
The first lady is wrong:
It wasn't terrorism that oppressed women in Afghanistan. It was Islamism. In Saudi Arabia, women
are oppressed every bit as much as they were in Afghanistan. They can't even drive cars. Now, we've
been told over and over again by the Bush administration that we are not at war with Islam. We've been
told ad nauseum what a wonderful religion it is. President Bush even invited 50 Islamic ambassadors
to the White House this week for Ramadan prayers.
Muslim Women as Human Shields:
Would any American, European or Israeli man call for his wife, mother, sister or daughter to come into a
fire-fight and stand as a human shield to protect him? The Arab Muslim Palestinians, on the other hand,
think nothing of using women, children and the elderly as "human shields."
Warning on al-Qaeda's new female
recruits. European intelligence chiefs have launched a major investigation into the threat
posed by female Islamic militants within the EU, whose involvement runs from logistics or propaganda activity
to suicide bombing, they say. 'This phenomenon has not been really taken into account yet and we need
to explore and understand it,' said one diplomatic official connected with the probe. 'It is a new
strategy by al-Qaeda.'
Women demand equal
opportunities — to blow themselves to smithereens. In a bizarre demand for sexual equality,
Islamic women extremists are insisting that al-Qaeda gives them the right to become suicide bombers and terrorists.
Many women have responded with a mixture of anger and dismay to online advice from Osama bin Laden's right-hand man that
they should keep to being housewives.
Murderers without honour:
Leila Hussein lived her last few weeks in terror. Moving constantly from safe house to safe house, she dared to stay no longer
than four days at each. It was the price she was forced to pay after denouncing and divorcing her husband, the man she
witnessed suffocate, stamp on, then stab their young daughter Rand in a brutal honour killing for which he had shown no remorse.
Allah and His Messenger's Extreme Hatred
of Women: [For example] (Sura 4:43) — "Muslims, draw not near unto prayer … (if)
ye have touched women … then go to high clean soil and rub your face and your hands."
(Sura 5:6) — "...if ye have had contact with women, and ye find not water, then go to clean,
high ground and rub your faces and your hands with some of it."
Women:
Islam's Domestic Animals. [In] the most hallowed speech by Muhammad, he had clearly described
women as domestic animals, and instructed their husbands to beat them if they suspect that their wives' behavior
are not to their satisfaction. Please note that those were Muhammad's last decrees to Muslim husbands.
Every Muslim husband is duty bound by those instructions of Muhammad.
Malaysia city orders Muslim women not
to wear bright lipstick, noisy heels. Authorities in a northern Malaysian city have forbidden
Muslim women from wearing bright lipstick and noisy high-heeled shoes to work, saying the ban will enhance
their dignity and prevent them from getting raped, a news report said.
The Editor says...
I doubt if it is possible to prevent rape in a society where women are treated
like animals.
The
"Great Mind" of a "Wife-Beating" Author. Within the worldwide Muslim community, there are a
number of actions that most clear thinking individuals would consider barbarous towards women. They
include stonings, honor killings, clitorectomies (female circumcisions), forced clothing (hijabs, burkas,
etc.), and wife-beatings.
Brother
of girl killed in apparent hijab incident charged. The brother of a Mississauga, Ont., teenager
who was strangled to death in her home has been charged with first-degree murder. Aqsa Parvez was 16
when she was strangled to death in December 2007 during what friends said was a family dispute over her
reluctance to wear a hijab.
Honor
Killings: "Honor killings" are distressingly common throughout the Muslim world. Phyllis
Chesler reports that "in 1997, in Cairo Egypt, twenty-five-year-old Nora Marzouk Ahmed's honeymoon ended when
her father chopped off her head and carried it down the street. 'Now,' he said, 'the family has
regained its honor.' Nora's crime? She had eloped."
Stop
Honorcide. The idea behind this campaign is to attract attention to this problem and to
prosecute honorcides to the fullest extent of the law. We believe the most pragmatic way to achieve
this goal is to classify honorcide as a hate crime.
An
American 'Honor Killing'. On July 6, police say, a Pakistani named Chaudhry Rashid strangled
his 25-year-old daughter Sandeela Kanwal with a Bungee cord in her bedroom because she wanted to end her
arranged marriage. This "honor killing" came not in Pakistan, but in Jonesboro, Ga. -- a suburb
16 miles outside Atlanta.
On a less serious note...
No Women on Saudi Olympic
Team. When the delegation of Tuvalu enters the Olympic stadium in Beijing on Friday evening for
what will be its debut Games, the tiny Pacific island nation of just 11,000 people will be represented by two
athletes and a weightlifter — two men and one woman. … [But] Saudi Arabia, with a population
of 28 million, will field a team — athletes, equestrians, swimmers, shooters and
weightlifters — that doesn't include a single woman.
Iraqi
father proud of daughter's 'honour killing'. Abdel-Qader Ali claimed the 'honour killing' was
supported by local police, and said his only regret was that he had not killed his daughter at birth.
Rand Abdel-Qader, who was studying English at Basra University, was stamped on, suffocated and stabbed by
her father, with help from her two older brothers.
'My daughter deserved to die for falling in
love'. For Abdel-Qader Ali there is only one regret: that he did not kill his daughter at birth.
'If I had realised then what she would become, I would have killed her the instant her mother delivered her,' he said with
no trace of remorse. ... Abdel-Qader, 46, a government employee, was initially arrested but released after two hours.
Astonishingly, he said, police congratulated him on what he had done. 'They are men and know what honour is,' he
said.
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