Dr. Jasser On The Start Of Muslim Honor Killing Trial

And from AZFamily.com:

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a devout Muslim and an outspoken advocate of integrating Eastern and Western cultures in the U.S., sat down with Javier Soto to talk about the trial of Faleh Hassan Almaleki, the Iraqi immigrant accused of killing his daughter because he thought she was too Westernized and had dishonored the family.

Jasser, the president and founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, said that while Noor Almaleki might have gone against her families' wishes when she got a job and started dating, that is not a defense for her father's alleged actions.

"I hope he becomes an example that Muslims in this country will not get special treatment, that they get the full force of Western law," Jasser said. "This honor killing is a sign of a deeper issue."

Jasser went on to discuss how honor killings are often treated in other countries.

"We as a Muslim community need to recognize that ... Islamic law is used sometimes to modify or minimize sentences and actually condones and contributes to a culture that in many ways condones this barbaric behavior," he said.

And here is the statement from NOW, who show their willingness to go outside the confines of their left-wing world in order to show the purity of their agenda as seeking equal rights for all women, even those subjugated by a nominal ally of the left:





Brief and to the point, eh?

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UK Muslim Police, Government Officials & MCB Preventing Action Against "Honor" Violence & Forced Marriages

A study in the UK has documented that some Muslims in the police and in the government are returning abused women to their families and, along with the Muslim Council of Britain, are standing in the way of both ending the practice of forced marriages and a crackdown on 'honor' violence. Occidental Britains in the police and government do not interfere for fear of being branded "racist."



This today from the Daily Times:

Some Asians in the police and in Government jobs have been accused of blocking the crackdown against so-called honour killings.

It is alleged they are not only failing to help desperate women trying to flee abuse and arranged marriages but are actively encouraging punishment for those they believe are breaking traditional taboos.

Terrified victims who seek official help are even being tracked down by a network of Asian men working in Government departments and social services, according to a study written by the think-tank Social Cohesion.

One woman was found by her family after she signed on at a Jobcentre where a member of the Asian community was working.

The report also claims some Asian police officers actually return women to their abusive families or refuse to act against men enforcing 'traditional' roles.

Meanwhile, non-Asian officials and police officers are scared of acting against families who abuse their relatives for fear of being branded as racist, the report says.

The study follows the horrific case of 20-year-old Banaz Mahmod, from Mitcham, South London, whose body was found in a suitcase after she was raped and strangled with a bootlace by hitmen hired by her family.

She was killed for falling in love with a man the family disapproved of – despite unsuccessfully asking police for help five times.

In one plea she recorded a video message that helped convict her father and uncle of her murder.

Controversially, the report accuses one of the Government's closest advisers on Muslim matters, the Muslim Council of Britain, of hampering attempts to criminalise forced marriage.

It said: "The MCB has sought to block legislation aimed at ending honour-based violence. Almost all women's groups interviewed for this report say that the MCB has done little or nothing to end honour-based violence...

"In many northern towns...South Asian women are often afraid to seek help because they know that Asians working in local government believe that women who break traditional taboos deserve to be punished."

Report contributor Nazir Afzal, of the Crown Prosecution Service, added: "Domestic violence is not an issue the Muslim Council of Britain wants to know about."

David Davies, the Tory MP for Monmouth who is on the Home Affairs Select committee investigating forced marriages and domestic violence, said: "Thousands of girls are being taken to Pakistan every year for marriage, although it is best described as abduction and rape." . . .

Read the article. That things like this are finally getting press in Britain is a small glimmer of hope. But do not expect the Labour government, which just approved an element of Sharia law and has, in an act worthy of Orwell, given cover to the Wahhabi / Salafi / Deobandis in the UK to continue their radicalization, to do anything at all about this. It is a measure of the malignancy of multiculturalist philosophy that occidentals are afraid to speak out or expose specific acts for fear of being branded a racist.

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We Need to End Multiculturalism, Redefine 'Honor' & Provide Justice

How do we stop the insane "honor killings" here and in Britain?


Shafilea Ahmed was a 17 year old girl living under in Britain. She wanted to be a lawyer. Her Pakistani parents wanted a different future for her. They wanted her to return to Pakistan to be wed in an arranged marriage. She refused. She disappeared, but her parents never reported her missing. Eventually, her body was discovered along a river bank in Kent. The Daily Mail has her story:

A Muslim girl who was violently opposed to an arranged marriage in Pakistan was murdered, a coroner told an inquest.

Coroner Ian Smith said he was "convinced" 17-year-old Shafilea Ahmed was definitely killed.

Her badly decomposed body was discovered five months after her disappearance beside the River Kent at Sedgwick in the Lake District.

Police launched a murder inquiry and arrested her parents, Iftikhar and Farzana, on suspicion of kidnapping the teenager but both were released without charge.

Shafilea had claimed her parents were trying to force her into an unwanted marriage.

Mr Smith, coroner for east and south Cumbria, said: "She was murdered. I'm convinced of that because of the way in which the body was disposed. It had been hidden and she had been taken many miles away from home.

. . . "Her ambition was to live her own life in her own way. To study, to follow a career in the law and to do what she wanted to do. These are just basic fundamental rights and they were denied to her."

The inquest heard Shafilea, who wanted to study and become a solicitor, had suffered an unhappy home life and had previously run away.

She confided in friends and youth workers that her parents were trying to force her into an arranged marriage.

One friend, Mushtag Bagas, had told the inquest Shafilea asked him for help to escape because she was being beaten by her parents and they were going to take her away to be married off.

The hearing was told Shafilea had been removed from school and taken to Pakistan by her parents in February 2003.

Once there, she had been confronted by the possibility of an arranged marriage and had drunk bleach in a desperate cry for help.

Her parents claimed she had mistaken the caustic substance for mouthwash during a power cut at the house where she was staying.

Shafilea had to seek hospital treatment in Pakistan for injuries to her oesophagus and continued outpatient treatment on her return to the UK in May.

But her return to Britain was anything but happy and police found lyrics to songs the teenager had written describing her torment.

In one song, titled Happy Families, the westernised teenager refers to a clash of cultures and her family's preoccupation with "honour".

She wrote: "I don't pretend like we're the perfect family no more. Desire to live is burning. My stomach is turning. But all they think about is honour. I was like a normal teenage kid." In September, Shafilea enrolled in sixth form college and was studying her A-levels to pursue her ambition of becoming a lawyer.

She was last seen at the home she shared with her parents, three sisters and younger brother in Warrington on September 11, 2003.

Despite being missing for more than a week, her family decided not to inform police, claiming she had previously run away from home.

Shafilea was eventually reported missing to police by a former school teacher on September 18, 2003 and a hunt was launched.

Her decomposed body was found in February 2004 close to an isolated river in the Lake District by road workers.

A pathologist who carried out a post-mortem said the teenager had probably been either smothered or strangled.

. . . Superintendent Geraint Jones, the senior investigating officer, vowed the inquiry into the death would not close.

. . . "Now is the time to come forward and help bring to justice the killer or killers of Shafilea Ahmed - a beautiful and vulnerable young girl."

Read the entire article. And this is only one of several recent cases in Britain. There was this recent case where a teenage bride recently arrived from Pakistan as part of an arranged marriage was beaten to death by her Pakistani husband over a period of weeks while her in-laws ignored her ordeal. The beatings were so severe and extensive as to cause damage of a type usually only caused by car crashes. And then there is the daughter of a Pakistani cleric who is being hunted by her family to kill her after she converted to Christianity.

This problem is certainly not limited to Britain, as the recent murder of two Egyptian teenage girls by their father in Texas indicates. How do we get the message to the families that to live in West means that they do not have the right to force the women in their families to act in a certain way - nor to beat or kill them if they do not so act? And how do we provide protection for women involved in such a nightmare inside our borders? I do not know the answers, but I do know that this occurrs with such repteviteness that it needs to be addressed. Multiculturalism - respecting the values of immigrants when they conflict with our own - is simply untennable. If families wish to live in a place where their ancient customs that conflict with Western law and values are respected, it cannot be within our lands. This is intollerable.

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