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Pakistani woman burned with acid in honor attack commits suicide. I remember reading about this woman back in 2000 when it happened. I was completely ignorant about islam, so I thought it was an aberration, and not a common occurrence. Now, having lived in the muslim world, I know better., and have seen worse. FAMILY and friends of a former Pakistani dancer who committed suicide after being heavily disfigured by an acid attack in 2000 said her death brought shame on Pakistan. Fakhra Younus, 33, leapt to her death from a sixth floor building in Rome on March 17, almost 12 years after the attack which she said left her looking “not human”.At the time of the attack, her ex-husband Bilal Khar was accused of entering her mother’s house and pouring acid over her face as she slept.The attack, in front of her then five-year-old son, left her unable to breathe and fighting for her life.

AAI's Zogby, Hamas-linked CAIR, Islamic supremacists to hold pro-honor killing rally in Dearborn to counter AFDI's Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference opposing honor killing. Pakistani girl killed by fiance for refusal to abandon her education. Yet another woman falls victim to the religion of peace. Inevitably, silence will follow womens lib groups. They don’t want to pick a fight with someone who might actually fight back, do they? PESHAWAR: Though shaken by the killing of a local female student by her fiancé over refusal to abandon education, schoolgirls in the provincial capital are committed to continue their studies.

Mostly from middle and lower middle class, parents of these government school students have no formal education.Mehnaz, a 10th grader, was killed on Wednesday when she was on her way to school in Pishtakhara neighbourhood.Sheeba, who is in ninth grade, told Dawn that the news of the schoolgirl’s killing had dazed her as she couldn’t comprehend the opposition to the girls’ education. “I don’t know why people oppose education of girls at schools. Canada: Father accused in multiple honor killings says "Were they to come to life, I would do it again" Libyan man slit his three daughters throats, for being raped. Again we have islamic dogma punishing the victims. Another honor killing, but don’t dare call it that, or you’re racist, according to liberals. A father slit the throat of his three teenage daughters in an ‘honour killing’ after they were raped by Gaddafi loyalists during the siege of the port city of Misrata.Allegations of the shocking executions are contained in a report by the respected Physicians for Human Rights group into war crimes and atrocities in the embattled city, which faced two months of being cut off from the rest of Libya.The father is said to have carried out the ‘honour killings’ because of his humiliation and shame at the rape of the sisters – aged 15, 17 and 18 – in Tomina, on the outskirts of Misrata.

The victims were not named. The horrific story was one of a number to emerge from Misrata after the group sent in a team of interviewers in June to catalogue human rights abuses just after Libyan forces expelled Gaddafi loyalists. HONOR KILLINGS. Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wafa Sultan, Geert Wilders ........ these truth tellers live under 24-hour guard because of Islamic death threats against them, which they received because they spoke the truth about Islam. Rifqa Bary's crime of apostasy is far worse. Her testimony is far more egregious. Rifqa Bary is the highest value target in America. She should be under 24 hour guard. Period. Rifqa addresses the court at her Friday hearing There is an almost incomprehensible, misogynist column over at the Orlando Sentinel that is so inaccurate, so misinformed, so dangerous, that "columnist" Mike Thomas ought to be charged with incitement to violent honor killing.

This tool, who wrote this at the behest of his masters, got nothing right. Mike Thomas decries an "anti-Muslim" bias in the media coverage. Not one scholar on Islam. The Islamic machinery is in full swing. Dr. Well, Dr. [All emphasis mine] And the left was wrong on both issues. And Terry Schiavo was murdered by the left. Bingo! Jordanian family drops all charges in son's 'honor killing' of sister. Honor Killing: Teen strangled by father for refusing hijab *update* teen dies from injuries. Do you like this story? *update* She didn’t make it. It seems honor has been restored to the family. Thanks be to Allah for his glorious justice. The savagery of Islam once again put on display, and nothing from CAIR, nothing from the American Muslim Council, nothing from the ACLU, nothing from the MSM, nothing from the so-called moderates of Islam who see an obvious trend of honor killings in the West and do nothing but hide in the shadows claiming victimhood everytime someone critices them for being silent.

I don’t know what’s worse: quiet moderate Muslims or the perpetrators themselves. Islam: the religion of tolerance and understanding A 16-year-old girl is in critical condition after being choked by a man believed to be her father, apparently after a dispute with her family over her refusal to wear the hijab, the Islamic headscarf worn by some Muslim women. read the rest Related posts: Another Honor Killing: Father stones 14 year old daughter to death in Iran. Saudi Honor killing: Father shoots daughter for using facebook. Florida: Muslim woman’s death accidental or an ‘honor’ killing? (video)

The only supposed witness, her mother, left the country days after the victim died. hat tip Atlas Shrugs, Honor Killing Cover-Up in Tampa? Muslim Woman’s Death Ruled “Accident” From the Florida Family Association website: Did Fatima Abdallah really cause her own death by repeatedly striking her head and causing such strong damage to this coffee table as Tampa Police report or was her demise an honor killing? It is Florida Family Association’s opinion that given the circumstances of Fatima Abdallah’s personal life and the facts surrounding her death that there is a need for the Tampa Police Department to reopen this case or for the State Attorney to open a new inquiry to fully investigate Fatima Abdullah’s death.Tampa Police determined that Fatima Abdallah killed herself by repeatedly beating her head against a coffee table and the floor.

Tampa Rescue calls the TPD explanation illogical, says she looked like someone beat her up and notes other injuries went unexplained. Like this: Related. Islamic honor killing covered up in Florida? India: Mothers honor killing their daughters who dared to choose a husband on their own. Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence? On February 12, 2009, Muzzammil Hassan informed police that he had beheaded his wife.

Hassan had emigrated to the United States 30 years ago and, after a successful banking career, had founded Bridges TV, a Muslim-interest network which aims, according to its website, "to foster a greater understanding among many cultures and diverse populations. " Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III told The Buffalo News that "this is the worst form of domestic violence possible," and Khalid Qazi, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council of Western New York, told the New York Post that Islam forbids such domestic violence.

While Muslim advocacy organizations argue that honor killings are a misnomer stigmatizing Muslims for what is simply domestic violence, a problem that has nothing to do with religion, Phyllis Chesler, who just completed a study of more than 50 instances of North American honor killings, says the evidence suggests otherwise. — The Editors Background and Denial. Son Kills Father Who Translated for US in Iraq.

An al-Qaida-linked insurgent shot and killed his own father as he slept in his bed Friday for refusing to quit his job as an Iraqi interpreter for the U.S. military, police said, a rare deadly attack on a close family member over allegations of collaborating with the enemy. The attack happened on a particularly bloody day in Iraq, with at least 27 people killed nationwide in bombings and ambushes largely targeting the houses of government officials, Iraqi security forces and those seen as allied with them. Hameed al-Daraji, 50, worked as a contractor and translator for the U.S. military for seven years since shortly after the U.S.

-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. He was shot in the chest about 3 a.m. while sleeping in his house in Samarra, a former insurgent stronghold 60 miles (95 kilometers) north of Baghdad, police Lt. Emad Muhsin said. Col. The U.S. military said it was looking into the report. Such attacks have happened elsewhere, though. City police chief Col. 15 girls die as zealots 'drive them into blaze'