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Liverpool: Somali youth killed for drinking alcohol
Islam in Europe October 29 2008
A gang of five men beat a Somali teenager to death because of a row over Muslims drinking alcohol, a court heard today. 
Islamists stone to death Somali woman for adultery
Washington Post, United States October 28 2008
KISMAYU, Somalia. Somali Islamists have stoned to death a woman accused of adultery, witnesses said, the first such public killing by the militants for about two years.
To Catch a Killer
FrontPage magazine.com, CA October 24 2008
By Robert Spencer
How many more girls must die as they did?
Over at Pajamas Media, in "The FBI Was Right. Why They Stopped Calling Yaser Said an Honor Killer," Phyllis Chesler says that the FBI's decision to stop calling the murders of Amina and Sarah Said by their father "honor killings" is tactical, not politically correct:
Turkish newspaper website blocked after creationist's complaint
guardian.co.uk, UK October 16 2008
By Robert Tait
The website of Turkey's third largest-selling newspaper has been blocked following a complaint by an Islamic creationist.
Denmark: Mediation to prevent honor-crimes
Islam in Europe October 13 2008
The number of cases where ethnic families threaten and practice violence, particularly against daughters and married women, is steadily increasing.
Honor Killings and the Struggle of Moderate Islam
Family Security Matters, NJ October 08 2008
By M. Zuhdi Jasser
Recently on Pajamas Media, Supna Zaidi of Islamist Watch addresses the Atlanta murder and July 2008 “honor killing” of Sandela Kanwal. She asked the question concerning the July murder, “Does Islam Justify Honor Killings?”
Her outrage over the murder and the increasing prevalence of ‘honor killings” in the Muslim world is not only understandable but an issue that deserves a much more resounding response from Muslims.
Brown promotes two Muslim ministers
Mathaba.Net, UK October 06 2008
PM Gordon Brown has promoted both of his two junior Muslim ministers among government changes aimed to restore Labour`s declining popularity ahead of the next general election, which is due to be held by May 2010.
Copenhagen: Two arrested for honor-related violence
Islam in Europe September 29 2008
A 20 year old woman of an immigrant family and her Danish boyfriend were threatened they'll be killed so as to give up their love. The women's two older brothers have been arrested.
Extremists threaten to kill Muslim cleric Omar Bakri's pole dancing daughter Yasmin Fostok
Sunday Mirror, UK September 29 2008
By Kate Mansey
The terrified pole-dancing daughter of radical cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed is in hiding after death threats from Muslim extremists.
Missing in Egypt: Fate of 19 Kidnapped Europeans Unknown
Spiegel Online September 23 2008
Despite reports on Monday that they had been freed, the kidnapping drama of German, Italian and Romanian tourists in Egypt continues. The tourists are still believed to be in the hands of their tribal kidnappers, who are reportedly demanding a ransom payment reaching into the millions.
The silence of the cowed
International Herald Tribune, France September 16 2008
ESSAY by Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Gibson Square, a British publishing house, has announced that it will soon release "The Jewel of Medina," a novel by American author Sherry Jones, whose publication in the United States was recently canceled by Random House for fear of triggering violence by Islamic fanatics. Bravo.
Honor Killings in Islam
Family Security Matters, NJ September 12 2008
By Supna Zaidi
Sandela Kanwal wanted a divorce for unknown reasons. Maybe her husband in Chicago was a wife-beater. Maybe she just didn’t like him. We don’t know. For months, she had been trying to get her father to end her unhappy marriage and in July of 2008, Sandela tried again. This time, Chaudhry Rashad strangled his daughter to death. When the police arrived he stated that he did nothing wrong and later demanded that he be provided halal food while in jail.
UN urged to push for ban on execution of children
PinkNews, UK September 12 2008
Human Rights Watch has called for action on executions for crimes committed by children
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The vast majority of executions of juvenile offenders take place in Iran, where judges can impose the death penalty in capital cases if the defendant has attained "majority," defined in Iranian law as 9 years for girls and 15 years for boys, says Human Rights Watch.
Man cuts off wife’s foot for ‘cheating on him’
Daily Times, Pakistan September 12 2008
LAHORE. A man in Multan cut off his wife’s foot on the suspicion that she had an affair with another man, Express News reported on Thursday.
Jihad on Screen
FrontPage magazine.com September 02 2008
By Jamie Glazov
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Gregory Ross, the Director of Communications for Clarion Fund. Their mission is to educate America about the threat of radical Islam. They do this through their films, websites and on-campus college programs.
Sam Solomon: The Cart before the Horse - Terrorism and Violence in Islam
Pilcrow Press August 28 2008
By Sam Solomon
Baquba... Abu-Ghraib... Takrit... Al-Qaeda... Bint-Jubail... Fallaujah... Hamidi ... Samarra... Hamed Al-Suaidi... Al-Zarqawi... Bin Ladin... Ahmadinejad!
During the half-decade since 9/11 in New York City, this generation of reporters has quickly mastered the pronunciation of such previously unfamiliar place names & surnames as the above. And many of these have practically become household words - words which now roll off the tongues of reporters as smoothly as if they were born to it.
It's all a part of what is termed the "new normal'. In essence, we have a new reality and a new vocabulary - a vocabulary of terror.We have mastered this new vocabulary as well as the necessary related geography of their lands, lands about which we never dreamed we would need to know, at least not to this level of detail.
But what we haven't mastered is why and when, if ever, will it be over? Will winning the war in Iraq and solving the Hezbollah- Israeli problem put an end to it? Would this provide the basis for a sustainable peace?
