 PEORIA, Ariz. — Police in a Phoenix suburb are looking for a father suspected of running down his daughter because she was becoming too "Westernized" and was not living according to their traditional Iraqi values. Police say 48-year-old Faleh Hassan Almaleki of Glendale allegedly ran his daughter down Tuesday at an Arizona Department of Economic Security parking lot in Peoria. The victim, 20-year-old Noor Faleh Almaleki of Surprise, remains hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. A second woman, 43-year-old Amal Edan Khalaf, also of Surprise, suffered non-life threatening injuries. Police say the women are roommates. Source: FoxNews
 Hundreds of attacks are to be treated as 'honour' crimes in a new drive by police to prosecute more offenders. Prosecutors hope the drive will also ensure that victims receive more rapid protection that can save them from possible further violence or a forced marriage. Under the new guidance it will be assumed that an honour crime has been committed in any case in which there is the slightest sign that such an offence has taken place - even if the victim has not reported it. Elements of the strategy are designed to ensure that potentially vital evidence of honour-based persecution is not overlooked. It will include information for police and prosecutors on how to identify male victims amid concern that at least 15 per cent of cases involve attacks or forced marriage inflicted on men. The horrific consequences of honour violence were highlighted by an attack in Leytonstone in July in which a 24-year-old Danish man of Asian origin had acid poured down his throat and was repeatedly stabbed because of his relationship with a Muslim woman. In January 2006 Banaz Mahmod was killed after falling in love with a man her family did not want her to marry.
The 20-year-old, who had left an arranged marriage and started a relationship with Rhamat Sulemani, 29, was strangled with a bootlace at her home in Surrey in January 2006.
Her father Mahmod Mahmod, 52, and uncle Ari Mahmod, 50, of Mitcham, were convicted of the killing. Read more at Mail Online H/T: Atlas
 From Today's Zaman: Prosecutors have demanded life sentences without the possibility of parole for the murder of a woman from a Diyarbakır village, allegedly by her father and uncle.
An investigation started by the Diyarbakır and Hani state prosecutors' offices after the body of 19-year-old Tuba Kılıç was found on Sept. 12, 2008, three days after she went missing in Diyarbakır's Hani district, is complete and the prosecution has pressed charges against her father, M., and her uncle, A., accusing them of premeditated murder within the context of an honor killing.
In the charges filed against them, the prosecution alleges that during the period of time that the woman was missing, her father and uncle went about their lives as usual in Kırım village, spending time playing games at the local coffeehouse and failing to express any expected reaction at her absence. The family did not report her as missing to any authorities, telling other villagers that they had “left the incident to God.”
Kılıç's body was found by an old marble refinery near the village. An autopsy revealed that she had died three days before the gruesome discovery, and while there were no signs of sexual assault, she had an 18-centimeter cut across her neck.
The prosecution charges in its indictment that the murder was an honor killing and that pressures related to the woman's interactions with men in the conservative village had led her male relatives to kill her.
The prosecution examined the woman's cell phone records and found that her last call was to her boyfriend, H.K. He told the prosecution that the day Kılıç supposedly got “lost,” she had called him. “Her voice seemed very tense. She said she was at home -- it was as if she was afraid someone would see her talking on the phone. She was in a hurry, she suggested we elope and said ‘otherwise they'll kill me.' I didn't believe what she said, so I didn't accept her proposal,” H.K. told prosecutors.
Investigators extracted male DNA from a cigarette butt found near the woman's body but have not been able to find evidence incontestably linking her relatives to her death, such as the murder weapon.
 By ROOP RAJ STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. A man faced a judge in Sterling Heights on Tuesday, charged with murdering his wife. FOX 2 spoke to those close to the victim, who say domestic violence should not be taken lightly. As friends and family remember the life of a 25-year-old woman in Sterling Heights that was stabbed to death in her own home, her own husband was charged with her murder. 22-year-old Mohammed Chowdhury was charged Tuesday afternoon with his wife's murder. He called 9-1-1 on Monday, saying a group broke into the apartment and killed his wife. Police say the story didn't add up. "Told a variety of stories to police officers and the family shortly after the incident had occured. Ultimately, it appears now that he is soley responsible," said Sterling Heights Police Lt. Robert Henigan. "She was one girl that I wanted to be," said Sumaiah Ahmed. "Either you want to be with her, you want to be friends with her." Friends of the victim just spent time with her nine days ago. They knew the University of Michigan-Dearborn student well. They didn't want to show her picture on television out of respect to the family. "She's always smiling and stuff. You (would) never see any pain or anything," said Mahmuda Begum. Her friends didn't know her husband very well, but are hoping to spread awareness about domestic abuse. Police had been to their place before. "(As) Muslim (girls) living here, there's a lot of pressure on us... but it's okay," Begum said. "There are people like us who are here to help you." Chowdhury will appear in court again on October ninth for a preliminary hearing. Source: Fox
 by Valentina ColomboResearch Fellow, IMT Lucca Last September 15th Sanaa Dafani, an 18 year old girl of Moroccan origin, was killed by her father because she loved a 31 years old Italian.
The father was immediately arrested while the mother tried to find a reason for his act: “My husband loved Sanaa. Maybe she was wrong. I could forgive my husband. Yes, I could. He is my husband, my sons’ father. Sanaa dressed and ate in a proper way, but he did not want her to go out in the evening with bad boys or friends. My husband loved Sanaa. Maybe she was wrong. He always sent her messages: come back home. He wanted her beside him.” Almost the same words were pronounced by Hina Saleem’s mother three years ago. On August 11th 2006 Hina, a 21 year old girl of Pakistani origin, was slain by her father because she wanted to live like a Westerner and had decided to go and live with a non-Muslim man. On April 7th 2007, Du’a al-Aswad, a 17 year old Kurdish girl of Yazidi faith, was stoned by a raging crowd in Iraq because apparently she had offended her family’s honor.
In Turkey, almost 200 honor killings are committed every year, in Syria, between 200 and 300. In Pakistan there are between 800 and 1000 honor killings every year. These numbers are sad and worrisome. The problem of honor killings is known;
 A Palestinian woman wearing a hijab veil.The deadly face of Muslim extremism
Tarek Fatah and Farzana Hassan, National Post
Published: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 The tragic death of a Mississauga, Ont., teenage girl -- allegedly at the hands of her own traditionally minded Muslim father -- has sent shock waves across the world. Canadians are justified in raising concerns as to whether this is a sign of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in their own backyard.
Aqsa Parvez, a sprightly 16-year-old, beloved of her friends and peers at Applewood Heights Secondary School, was only trying to be herself, was only wishing for a normal adolescence amid Canada's rich cultural mosaic. Her father has now been charged with murder, and his son with obstruction, while a young life has been snuffed out -- likely in the name of honour and Islam.
Radical Muslim men consider themselves ultimately responsible for the conduct of the womenfolk. This outlook is rooted in a medieval ethos that treats women as nonpersons, unable to decide for themselves what they should wear, where they must go and what they must accomplish in life. If their conduct is seen as contravening this austere religious outlook, they are invariably subjected to abuse.
The hijab in particular has become a thorny issue among Muslim families. It has been elevated as a sort of "sixth pillar of Islam" among militant sects. Young teenage girls are often lectured over the virtues of the hijab by their family members. Once they hit puberty, compliance is deemed a non-negotiable religious requirement.
Go on reading here: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=162281
We will be holding a Washington DC rally on March 8 at the front of the Capitol Reflecting Pool beginning at 1 PM to address the global challenge of women oppressed and killed in the name of Islamic supremacism. We will demand that our legislators recognize the threat to women around the world by this supremacist ideology. Sign the Save Women Now Petition demanding that U.S. government and United Nations representatives recognize the ideology of Islamic supremacism as a source of oppression and violence to women in America and around the world. Read more ...Source: R.E.A.L.
Christine Brim, Senior Vice President for Policy and Program Management of the Center for Security Policy joins STOP HONORCIDE! campaign as Co-Chair. Ms. Brim continues her work as executive director for the Victory Coalition Fund, an incubator for new projects working against Islamism. Before joining the Center for Security Policy, Ms. Brim was a senior associate at the Lexington Institute and the Center for Vigilant Freedom. She received her MBA from George Mason University.
 Jason Koutsoukis Herald Correspondent in Ramla | December 6, 2008
THE Abu Ghanem clan has lost another one of its women, the 10th in eight years to be killed for supposedly breaching the family's "honour".
The latest victim is Dalia Abu Ghanem, a 16-year-old mother of one, who vanished several weeks ago after an argument with her family.
It's the most recent in a horrific series of "honour killings" that has infested the Abu Ghanem clan of Juarish, an Arab neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ramla, a blue-collar city of 64,000 south of Tel Aviv.
"A few days after the argument, we received a tip-off, anonymously, that she was missing," Israel Police superintendent Shlomi Sagi told the Herald.
"Immediately, we were afraid because of the family history," he said.
Last week, Sagi said, police picked up Dalia's brother, Mahmoud Abu Ghanem, in Rahat, a city near Gaza in Israel's south. "He told us he was looking for work there. His sister is missing and he goes away to look for work? We arrested him."
Although a body has still not been found, in a court appearance on Monday police formally charged Mahmoud with his sister's murder. He was remanded in custody.
A look into the bloody history of the Abu Ghanem family and it seems like escape was never an option for Dalia.
In 2000, her mother Naifa was the victim of an honour killing, and in 2006 her sister Shirihan bled to death after her throat was slashed.
Dalia also watched as six of her cousins were gunned down, strangled and stabbed for "crimes" as trivial as talking to another man on the telephone.
Further unhappiness was forced upon Dalia when, at the age of 14, shortly after her sister's murder, she was forced by her father to marry a man she barely knew, against her will.
Three months ago she gave birth to a daughter, but motherhood was an experience she had to endure alone as her husband is serving a prison sentence.
At various times during her marriage, Dalia had sought refuge in shelters for battered women, after she had endured beatings and several murder threats.
"But she chose to go back to her family's neighbourhood, as other local women did and were then attacked," a police prosecutor told the Ramla Magistrates Court on Monday.
As recently as March this year, 40-year-old Sara Abu Ghanem sustained light injuries to her head and neck when several unidentified men opened fire at her on her way to work.
Sara had recently divorced her Palestinian husband and wished to make official her relationship with a local Jewish man, a fact that had outraged the family.
So-called honour killings number about 10 a year among Israel's 1.5 million-strong, mostly Muslim Arab population.
"Dalia was a quiet girl, who rarely spoke to me," says Omar al-Omar, a senior organiser at the Juarish Community Centre who knew Dalia well and had taught her gymnastics and folk dancing. "This is a family ruled by fear and you can see it in the faces of the Abu Ghanem women. They grow up with this huge weight on their shoulders," al-Omar says.
Al-Omar says economic hardship and lack of education are likely reasons why the Abu Ghanem clan, which numbers about 2000 people in Juarish, has bred such a culture of violence. "There are a lot of social problems in this family. They pull the girls out of school at age 12 and force them to get married, stop them getting educated, stop them getting out. It's a cycle that goes around and around. It's an epidemic here."
On the streets of Juarish, several people approached by the Herald walked away when approached to talk about Dalia's disappearance.
"When she first disappeared, the kids who come here to the community centre never talked about it with words, they talked about it with pictures that they drew for each other in school. Everyone knows right away that she is killed," al-Omar says.
"It shows how deeply this affected the culture here, where the 'honour killing' is an epidemic, but where no one can talk openly about."
This culture of silence is something that Israeli police have struggled to break as they tried to solve the murders, most of which remain unsolved.
But in January 2006, things started to change after 18-year-old Hamda Abu Ghanem was shot nine times while she lay in her bed. Instead of maintaining the usual wall of silence, the Abu Ghanem women opened up, with police gathering testimony from 20 female witnesses.
Hamda had refused to marry a man she had been promised to, it was revealed. She also talked too much on the telephone and had once been spotted talking to a male cousin. Convictions were eventually secured against several relatives, including her brothers Rashad and Kalil Abu Ghanem.
Convictions against another four Abu Ghanem brothers were also secured over the murder of their 19-year-old sister Reem, who was strangled to death in March 2006.
One of the brothers, Suleiman Abu Ghanem, a respected physician at a local hospital, had conspired in the murder by supplying sleeping tablets to his brothers and instructing them on how to sedate her.
Once asleep, Reem was wrapped in a blanket, placed in the boot of a car and driven to a local field. She awoke and pleaded for her life with her brothers. They tried to convince her that she had disgraced the family's honour because she had refused to marry the man she had been promised to and had instead ran away from home to be with another man she had fallen in love with. They then suffocated her and dumped her body in a nearby well.
"These convictions show that things are changing slowly," Sagi said. "We hope we can continue to get people to talk, especially in this latest case."
Meanwhile, says al-Omar, whose work on the ground in Juarish provides a crucial link to the world outside the Abu Ghanem clan, there are small signs of change.
"In my folk dancing class now, I have nine Abu Ghanem women. Ten years ago this would never have happened. It means they are getting bolder. I am hoping it will continue." Source: Sydney Morning Herald
A Palestinian man from a refugee camp has shot to death his 17-year-old daughter allegedly to cleanse the family's honor, a Jordanian judicial official said Thursday.
Many Jordanians consider sex out of wedlock a stain on a family's reputation. An average of 20 Jordanian women are killed by relatives every year in so-called honor killings.
The official said the 60-year-old man confessed to killing his daughter Wednesday when he was in a state of fury.
Forensic doctors said an autopsy showed the girl was still a virgin. Source: AP
By M. Zuhdi Jasser Recently on Pajamas Media, Supna Zaidi of Islamist Watch addresses the Atlanta murder and July 2008 “honor killing” of Sandela Kanwal. She asked the question concerning the July murder, “Does Islam Justify Honor Killings?” Her outrage over the murder and the increasing prevalence of ‘honor killings” in the Muslim world is not only understandable but an issue that deserves a much more resounding response from Muslims. As Ms. Zaidi astutely points out, “What kind of an ideology causes a man to show no remorse for murdering his own daughter, but rants and raves at being served ham sandwiches while in prison? The media picked up the story quickly and asked, "Is Islam to blame?" The facts she discusses about honor killings and their linkage to the practice of Islam by some and the corrupt legal protections in countries like Jordan and Pakistan are certainly true. Read more ...Source: Family Security Matters
 By Phyllis Chesler It’s official now. Over the weekend, the FBI finally added Yaser Abdul Said to its Most Wanted List for the ‘Muslim Honor Killing’ Of His Daughters. Bill Warner, who is apparently an FBI Florida based consultant, is the one who defines it as a Muslim honor killing. I suppose that Warner and perhaps even the FBI will be condemned as “Islamophobes” and “racists” for telling the truth. When I went to investigator Bill Warner’s site I found myself face to face with…myself! Warner links to that portion of the Fox documentary about honor killings in America Murder in the Family. Honor Killings in America where I am speaking. It’s a very good documentary and may be purchased HERE. I’ve written about this case many times over the last nine months. Said is the human monster who killed his own two daughters, Sarah and Amina, in cold blood, because they refused to marry Egyptian men in arranged marriages, were altogether too American, had ambitious college plans and Christian friends, boys as well as girls. I wonder why it has taken the FBI this long to add Said? And why they have done so now? But I also wonder when they will also arrest the girls’ mother, Tissy (Patricia) Said, as the accomplice who lured them to their deaths? Read more ...Source: Pajamas Media - Chesler Chronicles
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PHILADELPHIA - The Middle East Forum announces the appointment of Supna Zaidi as assistant director of Islamist Watch, a project to resist the Islamist agenda to spread Shari'a through lawful means and to gain special rights for Muslims in the West. Ms Zaidi is currently editor in chief of Muslim World Today and director of the Council for Democracy and Tolerance, a progressive Muslim think tank that engages moderate Muslims against Islamism and defends the values of democracy and secularism in the West. Ms Zaidi studied religion and Middle East history at the University of California-San Diego and received her law degree from New York Law School. She has practiced immigration law in the New York area, litigating deportation and asylum cases, specializing in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa.  "Every American must recognize that a fundamental change is occurring in the West," observes Supna Zaidi. "Another 9/11 is less of a danger than the piling up of seemingly innocuous accommodations to Islamic law. Lawful Islamists advance their cause through lobbying politicians, intimidating the media, threatening international boycotts, making predatory use of the legal system, advancing novel legislation, influencing the contents of school textbooks, and in other ways exploiting the freedoms of an open society. American media generally ignore such encroachments, so Islamist Watch exists to take up the slack."  MEF director Daniel Pipes welcomed Ms Zaidi, noting: "She will be a strong advocate against the Islamist agenda to blur the lines between religious freedom with preferential treatment and legitimization of Islamism and Shari'a over all Americans through American law. As a Muslim immigrant, Supna realizes the challenges Muslims face when Islamists falsely tell them that they must choose between the U.S. Constitution or Shari'a. As assistant director of Islamist Watch, she will make it her daily duty to fight against Islamists while promoting moderate Islam." Islamist Watch, established by the Forum in April 2006, focuses on the political, educational, cultural, and legal activities of Islamists in the United States and (to a lesser degree) in other historically non-Muslim countries, especially Western Europe, Canada, and Australia. It seeks to educate the government, media, religious institutions, the academy, and the business world about lawful Islamism. It is the only U.S. project to stand vigilant and vocal against attempts by Islamists to make non-Muslims second class citizens in their own countries, while encouraging support for anti-Islamist Muslims. Learn more at http://www.islamist-watch.org/about.phpSource: Middle East ForumSupna Zaidi is welcomed by Muslims Against Sharia as a Co-Chair of STOP HONORCIDE! campaign.
By Jamie Glazov Frontpage Interview's guest today is Linda Ahmed, one of the founders of Muslims Against Sharia. She is also co-chair of the new campaign Stop Honorcide, launched on Mother's Day 2008 on behalf of victims of honor killings. FP: Linda Ahmed, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Ahmed: Thank you very much for having me here. FP: Tell us about your new campaign, Stop Honorcide. Ahmed: As you probably know, honor killings or honorcides are common in non-Western cultures. Even fairly westernized countries like Turkey have a huge honorcide problem. When non-Westerners move to the Western countries, they bring with them their traditions, honorcide being one of those "traditions". Unfortunately Western media is downplaying honorcide problem in the West for fear of offending immigrant populations. You don't hear names like Amina & Sarah Said, Aqsa Perves, Morsal Obeidi, or Hatin Surucu on evening news. Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
 The STOP HONORCIDE! campaign was launched on Mother's Day 2008. The goal of the campaign is to prosecute honorcides to the fullest extent of the law. We want honorcide to be classified as a hate crime and we advocate for every existing hate crime legislation to be amended to include honorcide. Read more ...If you would like to provide a statement of support, please use comments section.
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PEORIA, Ariz. — Police in a Phoenix suburb are looking for a father suspected of running down his daughter because she was becoming too "Westernized" and was not living according to their traditional Iraqi values. 
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