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February 8, 2011
Presumably out of a violated sense of “honor”, a Turkish-born man has killed and dismembered his wife in […]
February 7, 2011
After a three-week trial and one hour of deliberations, an upstate New York jury on Monday found Muzzammil […]
February 7, 2011
Arizona’s case of the Iraqi man accused of killing his daughter for honor was expected to wrap up […]
February 5, 2011
The difficulties of living as a woman in Saudi Arabia are the subject of a new book by […]
February 4, 2011
In a debate on honour violence, Dutch Deputy Welfare Minister Marlies Veldhuijzen van Zanten has told parliament she […]
February 3, 2011
Police in Bangladesh said Thursday they have arrested four Islamic clerics after a teenage girl was whipped to […]
February 3, 2011
In today’s New York Times, Ayaan writes about the Muslim Brotherhood’s strong and growing influence in Egypt and […]
February 2, 2011
The German state of Hesse has banned the wearing of the burka – the Muslim dress that covers […]
January 30, 2011
Grooming of girls by Asian gangs fuelled by unhappy arranged marriages to cousins claims Muslim peer
A senior Muslim politician in the UK has blamed unhappy arranged marriages to cousins for leading some Pakistani […]
January 29, 2011
An Iranian-Dutch woman, arrested in Iran after taking part in demonstrations has been hanged on alleged charges of […]
January 28, 2011
A Danish judge has had to call the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard to order after an outburst against the […]
January 28, 2011
In New Zealand, ethnic women’s groups are lobbying the Government to pass legislation against forced marriages as escalating […]
January 28, 2011
Referring to the new German film “When we leave”, Elisa Mosler writes: “Based on a real honor killing […]
January 28, 2011
Though rarely documented in the U.S., the tradition of “honor killings”: putting a woman to death for having […]
January 27, 2011
Video has emerged of a 19-year-old girl being stoned to death by the Taliban for running away from […]