The War on Muslim Women -Jeff JacobyNo international furor saved Aqsa Parvez, a Toronto teenager, whose father was charged on Dec. 11 with strangling her to death because she refused to wear a hijab.
More than 25 "honor killings" have been confirmed in Britain's Muslim community in recent years. Many more are suspected.
In Basra, Iraq, more than 40 women who wear Western-style clothing have been killed so far this year by Islamists, Iraqi police say. [T]he bodies are often left in garbage dumps with notes accusing the victims of "un-Islamic behavior."
In Pakistan, a tribal council ordered a woman to be gang-raped as punishment for her brother's supposed liaison with a woman from another tribe.
In Tehran, a father beheaded his 7-year-old daughter because he suspected that she had been raped. In Saudi Arabia, the Islamic police prevented schoolgirls from leaving a burning building because they were not wearing headscarves and abayas; 15 of the girls died in the inferno.
In San Francisco, a young Muslim woman was shot dead after she uncovered her hair and put on makeup in order to be a maid of honor at a friend's wedding. These are only examples - the tip of a dreadful iceberg...
(Boston Globe)
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