July 1, 2010 - War on Women News - Responsible for Equality And Liberty

Women's News:

UAE: Murdered woman may be honour killing victim -- in Abu Dhabi
-- Gulf News: "on June 27, a Sudanese man allegedly stabbed his wife to death in their apartment in Shabiya Khalifa in Musaffah. The husband was arrested shortly after on charges of murder."

-- "A woman who was allegedly stabbed to death by her husband might be a victim of honour killing, according to a police official close to the investigation"
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/crime/murdered-woman-may-be-honour-killing-victim-1.649086


Jordanian jailed for killing sister over sex images
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5giKDbP2yplUvUldeGKIshh0-1TKw


India: "Hindu Honor Killings"
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/06/india-hindu-honor-killings/

India - Delhi: Honour killing suspects sent to judicial custody

-- Mandeep Nagar, Ankit Chaudhury, and Nakul Khari
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Honour-killing-suspects-sent-to-judicial-custody/Article1-566019.aspx


India arrests Belgian for 'honour killing'
-- Sify News: "Mehtab Singh, 55, from Brussels, is accused of strangling 17-year-old Amritpal Kaur to death in Amritsar in northern Punjab state and then attempting to disguise the murder as a suicide"

http://sify.com/news/india-arrests-belgian-for-honour-killing-news-national-khbokdfbgib.html

(UK) Brit MPs watch film on honour killing

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Brit-MPs-watch-film-on-honour-killing/articleshow/6114631.cms


(UK) Muslim Harry Potter actress death threats from dad and bro
-- Daily Star: "Afshan Azad, who has appeared in four of the films as one of the wizard’s screen girlfriends Padma Patil, hails from a strict Muslim family."

-- "Her dad Abdul, 54, has appeared in court accused of threatening to kill her."
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/142452/Muslim-Harry-Potter-actress-death-threats-from-dad-and-bro/


(India) Against divorce: Muslim women assault three Koranic scholars
-- AsiaNews: "On June 29 Three Indian women stormed a seminary in Madrassa-e-Sultan Madara in Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh in India, and assaulted three Muslim religious. Mumtaz, Nishat Fatima Arshi, all Shiite Muslims, wanted to give a "life lesson" to the three Koranic scholars who had been bribed by their husbands with 2,500 rupees (44 Euros) to emit sentences of divorce (talaq), leaving their wives in the dark."

-- "In a video that has taken during the women's raid on the seminary, one of the women is seen pulling the hair of one of the religious experts as another hit them several times with a slipper. Nishat Fatima has since declared that 'beating the men was of great comfort' and appealed to all Muslim women 'who suffer in silence to come out and speak out before it's too late.'"

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Against-divorce:-Muslim-women-assault-three-Koranic-scholars-18814.html

-- YouTube Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-_lQ2Bmqpw


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