Posts Tagged: honor violence
How Iran’s Hijab Protesters Are Fighting for Muslim Women Everywhere
Havva still remembers how it felt the first time she walked in public without a headscarf. "I felt powerful, she recalls now, nearly two decades...
We Must Investigate America’s Longest War
According to official estimates, the US expended a staggering $982 billion on the Afghanistan war effort. However, the Costs of War Project at Brown University assesses...
Turkey Refuses to Protect Its Women — and What That Means for the World
Her eyes were nearly as dark as her abaya, large and filled with tears. She was young, not much more than 30, with dark hair,...
Western Feminists AWOL in Supporting Abused and Dissident Muslim Women
Muslim and ex-Muslim feminists and dissidents have been risking torture and death in the Middle East, Central Asia, Africa, and the Far East by refusing...
The Horrors of Honor Violence in the West
She was a 15-year-old student at San Antonio's Taft High School with a soft smile and dark eyes. Like most girls her age in Texas,...
Islam, Sexual Violence and the West
The mass rape of hundreds of German women mostly by Muslim migrants last New Year's was recently revealed to be far worse than originally acknowledged. Authorities now believe that...
