Honour Killings

The left are mostly silent on the subject of honour killings.

Popular Leftist websites like The Galloping Beaver and Canadian Cynic for example.

Question: Why do the left continue to look at honour killings as a gender issue, instead of a religious issue. Why don't they seem to care about the subject?

A question of honour: Police say 17,000 women are victims every year

Sunday, 10 February 2008

Up to 17,000 women in Britain are being subjected to "honour" related violence, including murder, every year, according to police chiefs.

And official figures on forced marriages are the tip of the iceberg, says the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO).

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Honor killings: When the ancient and the modern collide

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, young Muslim women are being targeted for violence. Lest it be thought hate crimes are to blame, it is, in fact, their own relatives who are the perpetrators. So-called honor killings, whereby a Muslim male family member, typically the father, murders his daughter in order to defend the family's honor, is a growing problem.

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Let's end the war against women

Posted By Peggy Flanagan

Posted 11 hours ago

A United Nations report estimates that, on average world- wide, three million women and girls are murdered every year, and at least 113 million women are "missing." This is gendercide.

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