Remember in the 1980s and before when the news would have the odd story about Muslims driving up to bus stops and murdering groups of girls for not wearing face veils? Shame on us all for not getting with the program then and there.
Category Archives: Femicide
The crimewave that shames the world
It’s one of the last great taboos: the murder of at least 20,000 women a year in the name of ‘honour’. Nor is the problem confined to the Middle East: the contagion is spreading rapidly
By Robert Fisk
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
It is a tragedy, a horror, a crime against humanity. The details of the murders – of the women beheaded, burned to death, stoned to death, stabbed, electrocuted, strangled and buried alive for the "honour" of their families – are as barbaric as they are shameful. Many women's groups in the Middle East and South-west Asia suspect the victims are at least four times the United Nations' latest world figure of around 5,000 deaths a year. Most of the victims are young, many are teenagers, slaughtered under a vile tradition that goes back hundreds of years but which now spans half the globe.
A 10-month investigation by The Independent in Jordan, Pakistan, Egypt, Gaza and the West Bank has unearthed terrifying details of murder most foul. Men are also killed for "honour" and, despite its identification by journalists as a largely Muslim practice, Christian and Hindu communities have stooped to the same crimes. Indeed, the "honour" (or ird) of families, communities and tribes transcends religion and human mercy. But voluntary women's groups, human rights organisations, Amnesty International and news archives suggest that the slaughter of the innocent for "dishonouring" their families is increasing by the year.
Iraqi Kurds, Palestinians in Jordan, Pakistan and Turkey appear to be the worst offenders but media freedoms in these countries may over-compensate for the secrecy which surrounds "honour" killings in Egypt – which untruthfully claims there are none – and other Middle East nations in the Gulf and the Levant. But honour crimes long ago spread to Britain, Belgium, Russia and Canada and many other nations. Security authorities and courts across much of the Middle East have connived in reducing or abrogating prison sentences for the family murder of women, often classifying them as suicides to prevent prosecutions.
Egyptian Cleric Sa’d Arafat: “Allah Honors Wives With Beatings”
Iranian woman facing death by stoning is ‘lashed 99 MORE times’ after newspaper prints picture of her without headscarf
Daily Mail: UK
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 8:13 PM on 5th September 2010
Lashings: Sakineh Mohammad Ashtiani was allegedly whipped 99 times after an incorrect picture of her appeared in a newspaper
An Iranian widow sentenced to death by stoning for adultery has been lashed 99 times for ”spreading corruption and indecency” after a newspaper published an alleged picture of her without a headscarf, her son said last night.
Sakineh Mohammad Ashtiani, 43, was convicted of “adultery while being married” and given the death penalty after a trial over her husband’s murder in 2006.
The widow’s son Sajad, 22, has campaigned for her to be released and after the plight caused international uproar her execution was halted in July.
But supporters’ hopes have been dashed after Sajad said that his mother has been whipped 99 times after an apparent picture of her without traditional head-dress appeared in The Times last week.
The newspaper quickly withdrew the picture claiming it was of a different Iranian woman living in Sweeden but Sajad now fears that his mother could be hanged.
He said the photograph was an excuse to punish his mother and that the hardline Iranian government’s real purpose was to silence the international campaign to save her.
‘If it wasn’t the picture they would have found another excuse to try and silence her supporters outside Iran’, he said.
The Times said that it had been sent the photo “in good faith” by Mohammad Mostafaei, who was Sakineh’s lawyer in Tehran until he was forced to flee Iran at the end of July for publicising her plight.
Outrage: Sakineh’s plight has caused international uproar and her supporters hope that her death sentence will be quashed Continue Reading →Egypt doctor ‘arrested in FGM circumcision death’
Arizona honor killing
Diana West: Eyeless in Afghanistan
Written by: Diana West
Friday, August 06, 2010 3:18 AM 
This week’s column:
“Live our values,” Gen. David Petraeus wrote recently to troops in Afghanistan. “This is what distinguishes us from our enemies.”
Unfortunately, this is also what distinguishes us from many of our “friends.” This culture-chasm is what makes the infidel struggle for hearts and minds across Islamic lands so recklessly, wastefully futile, something I was once again reminded of on reading Time magazine’s cover story featuring 18-year-old Aisha. Aisha is a lovely Afghan girl whose husband and brother-in-law, on instructions from a local judge and Taliban commander, sliced off her ears and nose and left her dying to set an example for other wives thinking of running away from abusive in-laws. Only her discovery by U.S. troops saved Aisha’s life.
But where was Aisha’s father? Where was her family? Where were her town’s elders? Where was Hamid Karzai? Turns out her family did nothing to protect her from the Taliban, Time writes. Why? The magazine describes a mixture of fear and shame that I hope still strikes the average American family as so foreign as extra-terrestrials. Time further explains: “A girl who runs away is automatically considered a prostitute … and families that allow them back home would be subject to widespread ridicule.” When Aisha’s father enticed her home with promises of a new husband, the girl refused because she was fearful that her family would sell her into slavery, or murder her. Continue Reading →
German video on sharia law and abuse of women
Four guilty of bungled ‘honour killings’
By Kim Pilling, Press Association
Monday, 2 August 2010
Four men were convicted today of murdering a couple in a bungled honour killing arson attack.
Abdullah Mohammed, 41, and his wife, Aysha Mohammed, 39, were overcome by smoke and fumes after petrol was poured through their letterbox and set alight.
Hisamuddin Ibrahim, 21, wanted to punish a man who was having an affair with his married sister and ordered three men to cause a blaze at his terraced home in the early hours while he was asleep.
But the wrong address was targeted as the blaze was started at the home of the Mohammeds in 175 London Road in Blackburn, Lancashire - instead of the intended address of 135 London Road.
A jury at Preston Crown Court took just 90 minutes following a six-week trial to convict Ibrahim, Habib Iqbal, Sadek Miah and Mohammed Miah (no relation) of their murders. Continue Reading →
“Normal” Domestic Violence in Morocco is a Crime in the United States
By Phyllis Chesler from News Real Blog:
image credit: Bosch Fawstin (fawstin.blogspot.com)
So sayeth the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division.
On July 31, 2008, a couple was married by arrangement in Morocco when the bride was 17 years old. They moved to Bayonne, New Jersey, where the new husband found work as an accountant. The husband’s mother came to live with them.
On November 1st of that year, “acts of domestic abuse” commenced. The young girl finally called the police who, on November 22, 2008 (three weeks later) were still able to photograph numerous, visible bruises all over her body, including on her breasts. Her first punishment session lasted for one hour, during which time she cried all the time. This did not stop her husband. He said that he was doing this “to correct her.” The second time, he attacked both her breasts and genitalia, including pulling her pubic hair. Her vagina was very red and swollen—and that is when he administered his ultimate “pedagogical” punishment: He raped her. In addition, on a separate occasion, he slapped her face, “causing her lip to swell and bleeding to occur.” At that time, she escaped “without shoes or proper clothing” through a window and was taken to a hospital by the police.
For the rest of this stunning story please visit News real Blog:
France in a state of civil war
This is a video I made from a power point presentation that is circulating on email, made by a fellow calling himself AKA3 and sent to me by AA, I felt it was pretty powerful stuff and as I am familiar with many although not all of the incidents that are reflected here in this video, I felt it was valid and worth doing. Please feel free to comment and correct and augment.
Eeyore
If anyone wants the original French language complete power point presentation of it I will try and find a way to link to it here.
Some of todays Islamic little shop of horrors
I was just taking a trip through the Religion of Peace website and thought I would post a few of those links over here. Very discouraging and sad that human beings can act this way and then justify it with their ‘religion’ or worse, be motivated to these acts by said ‘religion’.
2. Faisalabad (AsiaNews) – A large number of Christians has fled Waris Pura, on the outskirts of Faisalabad, fearing violence, after Muslims launched a protest action that started at a local mosque after Friday prayers. The risk of attacks against Christians and their property is very high…
3. boy murders his own mother over whatever it is Muslims murder women for. Interestingly all three of these stories are from our ally in the ‘war on terror’, Pakistan. Go figure.
Honour killings and Canada
It seems that Canada had yet another attempt at a Muslim honour killing of a daughter. The good news is Canada’s clear, unmitigated, non-politically-corrected, not-culturally-relativist (even if the good minister for women’s affairs cannot pronounce that word properly) policy making it perfectly clear that killing people is unacceptable and being a matter of culture or religion does not make it OK.
And below, the statement from the good minister for women’s affairs. As usual for these times, it takes a conservative to set truly liberal policies.
Barbara Kay: Action on Honour Killings.
From The National Post
Barbara Kay: Action on honour killings
Barbara Kay July 12, 2010 – 4:20 pm
Nathan Denette / National Post
Muhammad Shan Parvez, left, and Waqas Parvez — brothers of murderer teenager Aqsa Parvez — leave a Brampton, Ont., courthouse on Dec. 14, 2007.
The Minister for Status of Women, Rona Ambrose, gave a press conference today on “culturally-driven violence and so-called ‘honour crimes.’ ” The occasion prompting her remarks was the official release of a position paper on the growing problem of culturally driven violence in Canada’s immigrant communities by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, the subject of my July 7th column.
The report, Culturally-Driven Violence Against Women: A growing problem in Canada’s immigrant communities, was written by Aruna Papp, a counsellor to immigrant men and women caught up in domestic conflicts. Ms Papp, an immigrant from India who herself suffered a great deal of culturally-related abuse, has emerged as an expert on South Asian cultural gender roles and honour/shame-related behaviours. Ms Papp has written about the subject of culturally-driven violence in the National Post.
Reflecting opinions expressed in the report, the minister endorsed Ms Papp’s most important points, emphasizing, with regard to honour killings, “These heinous acts cannot be justified by cultural relativism or excused under the guise of political correctness.” Continue Reading →
Canada: Mother declared fit to stand trial for attempted honour killing
From CTV News
Mom fit for trial for alleged ‘honour crime’ attempt
By: The Canadian Press
Date: Monday Jul. 12, 2010 10:59 AM PT
MONTREAL
— A woman alleged to have stabbed her daughter in the head in a so-called “honour crime” has been declared fit to stand trial.
Johra Kaleki will return to Quebec court on July 26 for a bail hearing. The prosecution says it will seek to have Kaleki remain behind bars.
Kaleki, 38, is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and assault with a weapon against her own 19-year-old daughter.
She had been sent to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation at the defence’s request, and the results were deposited with the court Monday.
“There were two things that were evaluated: her fitness to stand trial and her responsibility,” Crown prosecutor Anne Gauvin told reporters outside the courtroom.
“At this stage, she comes back fit and responsible.”
The Crown said it would oppose Kaleki’s attempt at bail because of the emotions involved in the case.
Johra Kaleki, 38, is seen in this artist’s rendition during court proceedings, Monday, June 14, 2010.
Gauvin argued unsuccessfully that Kaleki should be barred from speaking with her family, notably her husband Ebrahim Ebrahimi.
Ebrahimi will be the one putting up bail in two weeks’ time. The Crown fears there will be pressure on the victim to alter her testimony or simply not testify at all.
“It (parental pressure) could change the way it’s related in court,” Gauvin said.
“She’s (the victim) sort of facing her mother, what happened to her is not something ordinary and the pressure is there.”
The incident occurred inside the family’s Montreal-area home in the early morning hours of June 13.
The daughter is said to have returned home after a late night out and police said Kaleki was in a hysterical state.
Initial police reports suggested Kaleki’s husband tried to stop the attack.
Police quickly reached a conclusion that they were dealing with a so-called “honour” crime — an attack by a family on one of its members for an act believed to have brought shame to the family.
Ebrahimi has said the case was a misunderstanding and has pleaded with authorities to release his wife and reunite the family.
The 19-year-old victim, the eldest of four daughters, has since returned home after spending some time in hospital.