Honor Killings

No Country for Women

Elcin Poyrazlar | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Turkey, Violence Against Women, Honor Killings, Women's Rights, Child Brides, Female Representation, World News

I live in Istanbul, a mega-city, so I can't really say whether it is more conservative or religious. But there is certainly an air of submission where without being told, you have the instinct to shut your mouth.

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Karzai Asks Us to Leave (Most of) Afghanistan, and We Should Listen

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Iraq War, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Honor Killings, Afghan Corruption, Taliban, Acid Attacks, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, World News

What happens next is up to the Afghan people, not us. The country's president has asked us to leave. If he doesn't want us there, we shouldn't be there. In fact, we should beat Karzai's timetable and get most of our troops out of Afghanistan as soon as is safe and practical.

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After the Shafia Verdict

Nicole Pope | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Women in Society, Honor Killings, Patriarchal Society, Tooba Yahya, Mohammad Shafia, Sharia, World News

Understanding the delicate social balances and the pattern that can lead to honor killings is therefore important to prevent these crimes and to improve the lives of women and girls who live under constant pressure.

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GlobalPost Reports: Honor Killings Target Turkey's LGBT Citizens

Posted 12.12.2011

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By Jodi Hilton ISTANBUL -- On the walls of buildings and along the back alleys of the trendy Tunel neighborhood here in an old part of the c...

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Sex, Violence, and Terrorism

Connie Lawn | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Violence, Sexual Assault, Terrorism, Dominique Strauss-Kahn Rape, Lara Logan Sexual Assault, Arnold Schwarzenegger Love Child, Honor Killings, Sexual Harassment, World News

Sex, violence, and terrorism. These topics are probably not discussed much in college classes, but they should be. These are the topics we often deal with in the news business.

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Indian Mothers Charged With Killing Daughters In 'Honor Killings'

AP | By NIRMALA GEORGE | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Hindu, India Killings, Muslims, Brides Honor Killing, Husna, Honor Killings, Zahida, World News

NEW DELHI -- Two Muslim mothers in a northern Indian town have been arrested on accusations they killed their daughters for dishonoring the family by ...

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Teen Who Reportedly Ran Away To Avoid Arranged Marriage Found Safe

Skokie, IL Patch | Ted Regencia | Email the Author | 11:11am | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Skokie, Muslim, Skokie Patch, Runaways, Arranged Marriage, Runaway Teen, Skokie Illinois, Patch, Chicagoland Patch, Zaineb Chaudhary, Honor Killings, Chicago News

A Skokie teenager who went missing since last month after fleeing from her family has been found early Wednesday. Zaineb S. Chaudary, 16, "was fou...

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Police: Illinois Teen Ran Away To Avoid Arranged Marriage

Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Runaway Teen, Skokie, Runaways, Arranged Marriage, Honor Killings, Muslim, Skokie Illinois, Zaineb Chaudhary, Video, Chicago News

Law enforcement agencies throughout Illinois are looking for a missing Skokie teen who may have run away from home to avoid an arranged marriage. ...

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An American Honor Killing: Justice Is Served

Abigail Pesta | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, Women's Rights, Violence Against Women, American Honor Killlings, Honor Killings, Sharia Law, Arizona, Tribal Areas, Faleh Almaleki, Phoenix, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Iraq, Asia, Noor Almaleki, Sharia, Religion, World News

Noor Almaleki, a pretty 20-year-old, was walking across a suburban Phoenix parking lot in 2009 when her father slammed into her in his Jeep Grand Cher...

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Feo Aladag on Honor Killings and When We Leave

Kristin McCracken | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Feo Aladag, German Turks, Turkey, Tribeca Film Festival, Germany, Sibel Kekilli, Berlin, Honor Killings, When We Leave, Entertainment News

While the practice seems unthinkable to many, honor killings are still horrifically common -- a fact that inspired German actress Feo Aladag to direct her debut feature film, When We Leave.

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HuffPost Review: When We Leave

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Movie Reviews, Feo Aladag, Marshall Fine, When We Leave Movie Review, Sibel Kekilli, Honor Killings, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, When We Leave, Entertainment News

Aladag's gripping film is not a sermon or lecture on honor killing. The term itself is never uttered. And yet the message is clear: In this society, women have the same rights as animals and are treated worse.

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Shine A Light

Tamsin Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Honor Killings, Sex Trafficking, Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky Movement, I-Vawa, Impact News

Don't keep turning pages, hoping that the next chapter will be better. Everyday is a blank screen. Switch off the chatter.

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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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Who's Afraid of Shariah?

Sumbul Ali-Karamali | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islamophobia, Muslim Americans, Multicultural, Anti-Islam, Fgm, Honor Killings, Sharia Law, Multifaith, Shari'a Law, Sarah Palin, Iran, Pluralism, Shariah, American Muslims, Saudi Arabia, Bigotry, Female Genital Cutting, Sharia, Islam, Muslim Women, Understanding Islam, Understanding, Shari'A, Sumbul Ali-Karamali, Protesters, Shariah Law, Muslims, Interfaith, Loonwatch, Stoning, Islamic Law, Hate Rallies, Religion News

How many of those anti-Islam protesters holding "No Sharia Law" signs (as if anyone were advocating shariah law in the U.S.) actually know what the word means? I'd say, oh, none.

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"Quest for Honor: Stop The Killings Now!" -- A Documentary Examines Honor Killing

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rewan, Selling Girls, Runak Faraj, Iraqi Kurdistan, Saddam Hussein, Violence Against Women, Quest for Honor, Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, Kurds, Women?S Media Center of Sulaymaniyah, Trades for Blood, Iraq, Honor Killings, Runak Rauf, Domestic Violence, Arts News

First-time filmmaker, 70-year-old Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, has made it her mission to bring visibil...

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Anti-Mosque Activist Brings Fight Against Islam To Chicago Cabs

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Ground Zero Mosque, Pamela Geller, Racism, Honor Killings, Ground Zero Islamic Center, Muslim, Taxi Cabs, Islamic Center Ground Zero, Chicago News

The entire country seems to be embroiled in a heated argument over the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York--and Chicago cab drivers a...

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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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A Practical Approach to Talking About Honor Killing

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

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Many in the West misunderstand and conveniently condemn honor killing as a practice of Islam.

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Killing DADT Is the Honorable Thing

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gays in the Military, Turkey, Congress, Turkey Kurds, Nato, President Obama, United Nations, Dadt, Honor Killings, Kemal Ataturk, Afghanistan War, Ottoman Empire, Politics News

In the United States we need to distinguish ourselves from countries, like our NATO ally Turkey, who continue officially to regard homosexuality as shameful.

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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

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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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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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Honor Killing Law Amended In Syria

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

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Syria has scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences handed down to men convicted of killing female relatives they suspect of having illicit sex....

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

AP | DALE GAVLAK | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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'Honor Killings' Have Morphed Into 'Honor Suicides' in Turkey

The Independent | Ramita Navai in Batman, eastern Turkey | Posted 05.25.2011

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When Elif's father told her she had to kill herself in order to spare him from a prison sentence for her murder, she considered it long and hard. "I l...

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Honor Killings On The Rise, Going Unpunished In Iraq

The Guardian | Afif Sarhan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Authorities in the southern Iraqi city of Basra have admitted they are powerless to prevent 'honour killings' in the city following a 70 per cent incr...

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