Category: Bin Ladenism

The High Cost of Western Idealism: Saving Schoolgirls From Being Poison-Gassed in Afghanistan and Honor-Murdered in Sweden.
— by Phyllis Chesler

(Iran) Rights group urges Iran to release two Christian convert women
— “CSW advocacy director, Tina Lambert said that the group ‘remains deeply concerned for the safety’ of the two women, who had converted from Islam.”
— “Maryam Rostampour, 27, and Marzieh Amirizadeh, 30, were arrested by Iranian security forces on 5 March, after their apartment was searched and their Bibles and other personal items were confiscated”

(Saudi Arabia) Debate in Saudi Arabia over Women in Media
— 35 Saudi clerics “main complaint was that the visibility of women in the media contravened shari’a as well as Saudi law. They also complained that the media was contaminating Saudi society with secular and ‘perverted’ ideas.”

(Canada) ‘Honour killing’ trial hears details of shooting
— Sister Khatera Sadiqi killed by Hasibullah Sadiqi
— Accused in ‘honour killing’ lost control, court told

(Canada) Accused told pal plans to ‘get rid’ of couple
— “‘He asked me if I wanted to go to mosque to say a prayer for her,’ said Fazli. ‘He said, ‘She’ll become a martyr. She’s in paradise now.””
— Sister Khatera Sadiqi killed by Hasibullah Sadiqi

(Canada) Sadiqi troubled by sister’s engagement before killing, trial hears
— Sister Khatera Sadiqi killed by Hasibullah Sadiqi

(Canada) Honour killings ‘act of purifying through blood’: Expert
— “Honour killings involve a cleansing of dishonour aimed at restoring a family’s respect after the so-called ‘misbehaviour’ of female relatives, an expert told the Ottawa murder trial of Hasibullah Sadiqi on Friday.”
— “Shahrzad Mojab, a University of Toronto professor”
— Sister Khatera Sadiqi killed by Hasibullah Sadiqi
— ‘Honour killings’ about men asserting control over women, expert tells Sadiqi murder trial

(Canada) Accused in ‘honour killing’ told friend, ‘I had to do what I had to do,’ trial told
— “Friend described killing sister, fiance, witness testifies”
— Sister Khatera Sadiqi killed by Hasibullah Sadiqi

(Canada) Ottawa Citizen: “Family ‘honour’ will never be a legitimate reason to kill someone, in Canada, or anywhere else.”

(Canada) Mother breaks down during testimony in honour-killing trial
— Khatera Sadiqi killed

(Canada) Brother shot couple in honour killing, jury told
— Khatera Sadiqi killed
— “A witness is expected to testify that Mr. Sadiqi said after the killing that he believed his sister would be a martyr and go to paradise”

(Canada) Ottawa court hears opening statements in alleged ‘honour killing’
— “Assistant Crown attorney Mark Moors told an Ottawa court that Hasibullah Sadiqi shot his sister, Khatera Sadiqi, and her fiance, Feroz Mangal”
— “Sadiqi ‘believed that his sister had brought dishonour on the Sadiqi name,’ Moors said, later adding that a witness is expected to testify that the accused said after the killing that he believed his sister would be a martyr and go to paradise”
— Additional report

(Canada) Tearful mother speaks of abuse at ‘honour killing’ trial

Phyllis Chesler Article on Ottawa Trial Over “Honor Killing”
— “Brother on Trial for Killing Sister in Ottawa: Guess Where He’s Originally From”

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Who’d be female under Islamic law?