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Honor Killings

Killing DADT Is the Honorable Thing

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

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Aubrey Sarvis

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 11.02.2009 | Home

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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 08.28.2009 | World

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"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 08.02.2009 | World

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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 05.13.2009 | World

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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 04.27.2009 | World

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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 12.31.2008 | Home

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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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