Naturally, this tragic event is causing considerable consternation among Canadian Muslims. "Official" Islam is making its unconditional rejection of the killing clear. Faisal Kutty, a lawyer for the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN), is calling for "the strongest possible prosecution" of the father. Tarek Fatah and Farzana Hassan, of the liberal, more secular Muslim Canadian Congress (MCC), agree with Kutty's statement but also make the larger point that those demanding that women be allowed the right to wear the hijab do not always respect their right not to. Iqbal Nadvi, imam of the AlFalah Islamic Center in Oakville, is quoted to the effect that "Parents fail and bring shame upon themselves if a child chooses to abandon holy writings and not wear the hijab." H...
Muslim spokesmen have hastened, after the recent killing in Canada of another teenage Muslim girl, Aqsa Parvez, by her father, to tell the public that honor killing has nothing to do with Islam but is merely a feature of Islamic culture in some areas. Shahina Siddiqui, president of the Islamic Social Services Association, declared: "The strangulation death of Ms. Parvez was the result of domestic violence, a problem that cuts across Canadian society and is blind to color or creed.
NEW YORK, July 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The human rights group Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) has launched a new campaign on taxicabs in Chicago to educate the American people about the horrors of honor killing. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100712/DC33668)
By Terry Tang The Associated Press
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - The crime drips with brutal irony: A woman decapitated, allegedly by her estranged husband, in the offices of the television network the couple founded with the hope of countering Muslim stereotypes. Muzzammil "Mo" Hassan is accused of beheading his wife last week, days after she filed for divorce. Authorities have not discussed the role religion or culture might have played, but the slaying gave rise to speculation that it was the sort of "honor killing" more common in countries half a world away, including the couple's native Pakistan.
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq - She is 18, unmarried and eight months pregnant. She hates it when the baby shifts and kicks in her womb. I don't hate the child," she said. "But the movements keep reminding me of my past.
While the Tucson, Ariz., shootings captured headlines and attention all across America from the moment they took place, another Arizona killing that should be in the news is not. Its absence is notable not only because of the nature of the crime but because the lack of coverage it has received demonstrates a part of the political rift and rage around the country as much as Tucson shooting suspect Jared Laughton did. Last month, a trial opened for Faleh Almaleki, an Iraqi immigrant accused of murdering his daughter, 20-year-old Noor, on Oct. 20, 2009. Mr. Almaleki, by his own family's accounts, was upset by his daughter's Westernization, furious that she had chosen to marry the man she loved and not the one her parents had selected, outraged that she dressed in blue jeans, wore makeup an...
PEORIA, Ariz. - Noor Faleh Almaleki just wanted to be a normal American woman. The striking 20-year-old from Iraq, who'd lived in Phoenix since she was a young girl, wanted her hair and makeup to be perfect, her clothes to be fashionable. She wanted a job, a degree and a husband of her choosing.
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