May 31, 2009 War on Women News - RealCourage.org

(Canada) Ottawa: Brother gets life in honour killing
-- murder of Khatera Sadiqi
-- "A 'twisted sense of values' led an Ottawa man to murder his sister and the man
she loved, the judge in an honour killing trial said Saturday."
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Brother+gets+life+honour+killing/1647215/story.html
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Ottawa+Brother+gets+life+honour+killing/1647215/story.html
-- Brother locked up for life
http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2009/05/31/9627856-sun.html

(Iraq) In Iraq, they call it a love IED
-- "It goes like this: Boy meets girl. They exchange glances and text messages. Then boy
asks girl's father for her hand. Dad turns him down. Boy goes to girl's house and plants a bomb out front"
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Middle-East/In-Iraq-they-call-it-a-love-IED/articleshow/4599065.cms

Netherlands: 40% of Somali/Ethiopian/Egyptian women undergo FGM
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/05/netherlands-40-of-somaliethiopianegypti.html
http://www.nisnews.nl/public/300509_2.htm

(Malta) Female circumcision is no slap in the face
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090531/letters/female-circumcision-is-no-slap-in-the-face

(UK) Fears of Muslim anger over religious book
-- "'Does God Hate Women' by Jeremy Stangroom and Ophelia Benson cites attitudes
to women and criticises Mohammed's marriage"
-- "An academic book about religious attitudes to women is to be published this week
despite concerns it could cause a backlash among Muslims because it criticises the
prophet Muhammad for taking a nine-year-old girl as his third wife. "
-- "This weekend, the publisher, Continuum, said it had received "outside opinion" on
the book's cultural and religious content following suggestions that it might cause offence"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6394176.ece

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