France seeks to stop forced marriage, mutilation
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_FRANCE_FORCED_MARRIAGES?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=EUROPE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-04-14-09-24-50
Sweden: "Stockholm: Honor-related violence more widespread than previously thought"
-- "Stockholm city estimates that over 4,000 teenagers in Stockholm live in an honor culture which violates Swedish law."
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/04/stockholm-honor-related-violence-more.html
(Afghanistan) Taliban executes girl for planning to elope
-- additional reports with further details on Tailban killing of Gulsima and her boyfriend Aziz
-- Daily Telegraph: "Taliban executes 14-year-old girl for planning to elope"
-- "A 14-year-old girl and her boyfriend have been executed by a Taliban firing squad after being caught eloping"
-- half of the Lokhi elders also sought their execution
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/5153056/Taliban-executes-14-year-old-girl-for-planning-to-elope.html
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Daily Mail: "The woman, 19, and the man, 21, had fled their home after
being accused of immoral acts and had attempted to flee to Iran."
--- "Afghan women face execution if they are seen in public with a man other than their husband"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1169917/Taliban-gunmen-publicly-execute-young-couple-trying-elope.html
Afghan women want West to back off 'rape law'
-- "young women attending Kabul University expressed surprise and bewilderment
at the debate raging in Canada and Europe over a proposed law that seems to allow
men from the Shiite Hazara minority to sexually enslave their wives and imprison them in their homes."
--- Hamida Hasani: "But we do not want total freedom. We wanted it to be limited and to be within Islam."
--- Fahima Riosi: "Our freedom must come within Islam."
http://www.globaltv.com/globaltv/saskatoon/story.html?id=1492175
Saudis to review marriage law after 8 year old weds man, 58
-- Lawyer Abdul-Rahman al-Lahem: "For them this is allowed by Islamic Sharia law."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/5152904/Saudis-to-review-marriage-law-after-8-year-old-weds-man-58.html
-- "Saudi Arabia to regulate girls' marriages"
--- "The minister's comments suggested the practice of marrying off young girls would not be abolished."
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5497802
-- UNICEF 'deeply concerned' about marriage of 8-year-old
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/04/14/saudi.child.marriage/index.html?section=cnn_latest
---- one CNN commentor "ewj" writes: "It's none of our business. Let them alone."
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3213429350
---- Writer Mona Charen asks: "Why not the same urgency for child brides?"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20090414/cm_uc_crmchx/op_59652
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=172420
Iran - Two Christian Women Imprisoned
-- Maryam Rostampour and Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad "were active in church activities and distributing Bibles"
http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=news&lang=en&length=short&idelement=5877&backpage=summaries
Sudan - Converts from Islam Struggle to Survive
-- woman who converts from Islam - husband "attacked her and threw her out of their home"
-- "She decided to run for refuge to her older brother, Nur Bubkier - "who, having been informed
of her conversion, responded by thoroughly beating her and trying to knife her."
-- "In Sahafa, five kilometers (three miles) south of Khartoum, another woman who
left Islam is under a kind of house arrest by her family members for converting to Christianity"
http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=news&lang=en&length=short&idelement=5878&backpage=summaries
When Narratives Collide - by Phyllis Chesler
-- Phyllis Chesler states that according to the New York Times, "there has never been an honor killing in America."
http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/04/13/when-narratives-collide/
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