Honor Killing

Is It Safe For A Muslim Woman To Wear The Hijab In America?

Jacques Berlinerblau | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Burqa, American Islamophobia, Islamophobia, Hate Crimes, Hijab, Shaima Alawadi, Trayvon Martin, Niqab, Honor Killing, Islam, Video, Religion News

What is it like for a Muslim-American woman to wear a hijab in public? Does this particular religious attire render its wearers vulnerable to verbal and physical violence?

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The Global Problem of Gender Inequality

Nake M. Kamrany | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Feticide, China One Child Policy, Bride Burning, Gender Roles, Gender Discrimination, Female Genital Mutilation, Income Inequality, Gender Inequality, Honor Killing, Gender, World News

The evidence of gender discrimination is rooted in history, tradition and culture. Gender inequality is a highly debilitating stigma and leads to detriments of women's psychology of their worth and dignity to themselves and to society.

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A Reporter's Journey: Revealing the Honor Violence Epidemic

Jonathan Leach | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Honor Killing, Crime News

Honor killings are a wide-spread problem, and despite common generalizations, these senseless acts of violence are not exclusive to a single culture, ethnicity or religious group.

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Women At Risk In An Unequal World

Katherine Marshall | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Islam, Gender Equality, Women's Rights, Son Preference, Women in Islam, Afghanistan, Gender and Religion, Honour Killing Trial, Female-Feticide, Honor Killing, Religion News

That a man in an eminently civilized country like Canada could invoke an ancient practice like honor killing in the 21st century is frightening. The mores that seem to be at work cut to deeply felt attitudes about families and women.

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Turkey's First Gay Movie Highlights 'Honor' Killing

AP | By SUZAN FRASER | Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: Gay Movies, Gay Honor Killing, Turkish Gay Movie, Gay Crime, Gay Cinema, Ahmet Yildiz Movie, Ahmet Yildiz, Honor Killing, Zenne Dancer, Video, Gay Voices News

ANKARA, Turkey -- Shortly after telling his parents he was gay, Ahmet Yildiz was gunned down inside his car by his father in Istanbul. It was Turkey's...

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Woman's 'Honor' Killing Sparks Outrage In West Bank

AP | By NASSER SHIYOUKHI and KARIN LAUB | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, West Bank Honor Killing, Aya Baradiya, West Bank, Middle East, Honor Killing, World News

SURIF, West Bank -- A 20-year-old Palestinian woman who was thrown into a well and left to die in the name of "family honor" has not become just anoth...

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Iraqi Immigrant Sentenced In Arizona 'Honor Killing'

AP | By AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 06.15.2011

PHOENIX -- An Iraqi immigrant was sentenced Friday to 34 1/2 years in an Arizona prison for running over and killing his 20-year-old daughter because ...

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Director Feo Aladag uncovers honor killing in new film

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Feo Aladag, Marshall Fine, Honor Killing, Movies, Feo Aladag Interview, When We Leave, Marshall Fine Interview, Entertainment News

No, Feo Aladag admits with a laugh, she never intended to become an expert on the horrifying practice of honor killings. But if she was going to make ...

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Misogyny In The Muslim World: Bound By Culture Or Religion?

Ida Lichter, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

In many Muslim societies, Islamic law deems women inferior to men. A woman's testimony is worth half that of a man, and her independence is restricted by seclusion in the home, laws of guardianship by male kin, polygamy and unilateral divorce.

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Are We Accomplices to Violence Against Women?

Navi Pillay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Violence Against Women, Domestic Violence, Gender, Women, Rape, Abuse, United Nations, Honor Killing, Stoning, World News

The numbers are of pandemic proportions -- so large that, perversely, they distract us from the plight of the woman next door. Are we unconsciously shrugging it off as 'normal'?

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DVD Review: Forbidden Lie$

Dan Lybarger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jordan, Dan Lybarger, Review, Australia, Anna Broinowski, Dvd, Rana Husseini, Norma Khouri, Fiction, Honor Killing, Entertainment News

Why did dozens of western media outlets allow Norma Khoui to peddle her falsehoods for so long and how can Random House easily brush off the book after spending resources publishing and promoting?

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The Honor Code and the Arab Gulf

Anastasia Hobbet | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Kuwait, Worker Abuse, Human Rights, Footbinding, The Honor Code, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Honor Killing, Arabian Gulf, Honor Killings, Missionaries, Statistics, Books News

There is almost universal agreement that honor killing is un-Islamic. It's also illegal, yet it claims more than a thousand Pakistani women a year, maybe many more.

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Honor Killing: Is Violence Against Women a Universal Problem, Not an Islamic issue?

John L. Esposito | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Violence Against Women, Honor Killing, Religion News

Gender equity and violence against women are two issues rightfully attracting more attention in the mainstream press, but in the court of public opinion, Islam is wrongly seen as an instigator of women's oppression.

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Yellow Cab Will Stop Running Anti-Islam Ads From 'Queen Of Muslim Bashers'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yellow Cab Islam Ads, Islam, Ground Zero Mosque, Advertising, Pamela Geller, Racism, Yellow Cab, Muslims, Ground Zero Islamic Center, Honor Killing, Chicago News

Earlier this summer, the leader of the group "Stop the Islamization of America" took out ads on 25 Chicago taxi cabs--and as of Tuesday, all of them w...

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SPOTLIGHT ON FILM: Mary Ann Smothers Bruni Speaks Out Against 'Honor Killing' in the Middle East

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slideshow, Sundance Film Festival, Jordan, Turkey, Middle East, Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, Honor, New-Political-Films, Political Films, Iraq, Film, Honor Killing, Arts News

WHO: Filmmaker Mary Ann Smothers Bruni WHAT: 'Quest for Honor' WHEN: August 6 - 12, New York (IFC Center); August 13 - 19 Los Angeles (ArcLight Hol...

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Defining Democracy

Rana F. Sweis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Creativity, Jordan, Elections, Amman-Jordan, Politics, Democracy, Parliament, Education, Middle East, Hempstead, Honor Killing, Eduction-Reform, New York, Culture, World News

The fifth Parliamentary elections will be held in Jordan this November. It is difficult to see signs of true reform in this year's elections and I hope that Jordanians will look beyond the banners that dress the city.

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An American Honor Killing: Remembering Noor Almaleki

Marie Claire | Abigail Pesta | Posted 05.25.2011

In a quiet suburban parking lot outside of Phoenix, a father floors the gas on his Jeep Grand Cherokee and heads straight for his 20-year-old daughter...

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Syria Bans Female Teachers From Wearing Veils

Robert Weller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Koran, Women, Islam, Muslim, Burka, Honor Killing, Veil, Religion News

While much attention is being paid to European countries considering banning the burka, which allows only the eyes of Muslim women to be seen, an Arab country is barring its teachers from wearing them.

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Turkish Girl Buried Alive For Talking To Boys

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Turkey, Buried Alive, Turkey Honor Killing, Turkey Honor Killings, Honor Killing, World News

The body of a 16-year-old girl who police say was buried alive by relatives in an "honor" killing carried out as punishment for talking to boys has be...

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Male Monsters -- Girl Buried Alive for Being a Girl and the World Shrugs

Peter Daou | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Girls, Sexual Violence, Women, Rape, Coltan, Haiti, Congo, Honor Killing, Domestic Violence, Gender, World News

The brutalization of women and girls cuts across all religious and cultural boundaries, so this isn't just about dis-'honor' killings, though few things are more heinous than a father murdering his daughter.

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Noor Faleh Almaleki Dies: Iraqi Woman In US Dead After Father Runs Her Over For Being Too "Westernized"

AP | AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UK, Islam, Western Culture, Crime, Peoria, Noor Almaleki, Honor Killings, Atlanta, Westernized, Arizona, Culture, Religion, Westernization, Faleh Hassan Almaleki, Car, Phoenix, Noor Faleh Almaleki, Iraq, Muslim, Amal Khalaf, Honor Killing, Home News

PHOENIX — A young Iraqi woman whose father allegedly hit her with his car because she had become too Westernized died from her injuries Monday a...

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Rifqa, the Reverand and Apostasy

Salam Al Marayati | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Apostasy, Church, Bible Study, Muslim Americans, Runaways, Religious Conversion, Prayer, Muslim, Honor Killing, Politics News

Mohamed Bary says she can practice any faith she wants -- clearly, he is not a fundamentalist. He believes his daughter was brainwashed and kidnapped.

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Rana Husseini: Jordanian Journalist Who Exposed 'Honor Killings' Tells Story In New Book

WideAngle | Posted 05.25.2011

"Jordan Farmer Kills Sister Over Alleged Affair," read a recent headline from the Agence France-Presse. The 24-year-old man stabbed his sister afte...

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Jordan Honor Killing: Man Confesses To Brutally Stabbing To Death Pregnant Sister

AP | DALE GAVLAK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jordan, Crime, Honour Killings, Middle East, Jordan Honor Killing, Honor Killings, Basira, Basir Honor Killing, Honor Killing, Honour Murder Pregnant Woman Jordan, World News

AMMAN, Jordan — A Jordanian man confessed to stabbing to death his pregnant sister and mutilating her body to protect the family honor, said Jor...

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An American Muslim Call to End Domestic Violence

Wajahat Ali | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Honor Killing, Aasiya Hassan, Domestic Violence, Aasiya Zubair, Religion, World News

The brutal murder of our sister, Aasiya Zubair Hassan, finally forced a community of believers to unearth our heads from the sand and confront head-on the insidious epidemic of domestic violence.

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