Honor violence is rampant in Islam, given the inferior status of women (See HERE and HERE), sanctioned by the Sharia. As Robert Spencer has explained: In the Qur’an, a mysterious figure, known as Khidr in Islamic tradition, kills a boy in an apparently random and gratuitous attack. He then explains: “And as for the boy, […]
Sweden: Girls fearing forced marriage advised to put metal spoon in underwear to alert airport security
The ostrich syndrome has taken hold of Swedish leaders and their European Union cohorts as the West has imported large numbers of people who engage in dangerous practices and hold to damaging ideologies. These people are harming Muslim women as well as infidels, who were once safe in the West. Now: Girls in Sweden are […]
Canada: Muslim leaders enraged that police reported Muslim father abusing his daughter as “honour-based violence”
Survivors of gender-based violence need to be believed and supported. They also need society to describe the harm they experience with appropriate language. Yet time and again, violence against Muslim women is framed as “honour-based,” further stigmatizing victims and the wider communities to which they belong….It’s time for this to stop. Do people actually still […]
Muslim “family honor” in Pakistan: 14-year-old girl forced to parade naked through village
Police in Pakistan have arrested eight men for parading a 14-year-old through a village naked in connection with a dispute over family honour….It is claimed the girl’s brother had been having an affair. When the village council found out they ruled the scorned wife’s family could hit back by punishing the alleged adulterer’s sister. The […]