Sandeela Kanwal: “Honor Killing”, Race and Religion
NPR did a piece on the “honor killing” of Sandeela Kanwal on January 26, 2009. Kanwal was the daughter of Chaudry Rashid, a Pakistani immigrant who lives in a suburb of Atlanta. The police in Clayton...
View Article“Honour Killings” and “Canadian Values”
Three family members have recently been charged in the deaths of three teenage sisters and a female relative. The three girls–Zainab, Sahar, and Geeti Shafia–and their father’s first wife, Rona...
View ArticleCNN FAIL on Honor Killing Coverage
This past week a woman was murdered in an apparent honor killing in the Gaza Strip. She was beaten by her father who thought she was having an affair. May Allah have mercy on the soul and forgive the...
View ArticleThe Sensational Story That Wasn’t: Reports Of ‘Stoning’ Death Of Ukrainian...
This was written by Farangis Najibullah and originally published at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. RFE/RL’s Ukraine Service correspondents Volodymyr Prytula in Crimea and Maryana Drach in Prague...
View ArticleReligious and Cultural Appropriation in the Newspaper and the Courtroom
On the morning of June 30, 2009 a quadruple-murder case rocked the city of Kingston in Ontario, Canada. Four women were found dead, submerged in the Rideau Canal, in their Nissan Sentra. At first it...
View ArticleDead Muslim Women As Opportunities
In April of 2011, 20 year-old Jessica Mokdad was allegedly gunned down by her stepfather Rahim Alfetlawi. The media uproar over the murder was immediate and, unsurprisingly, cloaked under the...
View ArticleHonor Diaries: A Real Conversation on Women’s Rights or a Scratch on the...
In April 2011, Faleh Hassan Almaleki, an Iraqi immigrant to the United States, was sentenced to 34.5 years in prison for killing his 20 year-old daughter for becoming “too westernized.” The case was...
View ArticleFarkhunda, A Long Term Vision
Guest Post by Kawsar Hosseini (@kaw_sarr), who writes at the blog East-West Bridge. The story of the lynching of Farkhunda, a woman accused of burning the Quran in Afghanistan, has been widely covered...
View ArticleWho Can Talk About Palestinian Misogyny?
Palestinian rap group Dam’s latest song “Who You Are,” featuring newest member Maysa Daw tackles misogyny and “make believe feminism.” As one of the groups members, Tamer Nafer, puts it: we need to...
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