Green Energy
I stumbled on this article from Die Welt. It has a few interesting numbers:
30% of all Turkish students [in Germany] find honor killings a "legitimate reaction" to defend the honor of the family.
55,3% find that women absolutely must be virgins until marriage.
In Ankara at the Middle East University 77% believe it is a man's right to beat a women if she for example lets the food burn.
If the reader is in doubt - the Turkish are known to be relatively moderate compared to other Muslim countries.
- Brandeis U Caves To Cair Withdraws Honors From Heroine Ayann Hirsi Ali
Brandeis University has become the latest entity to capitulate to the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) campaign to silence critics of Islam. In an open letter to Brandeis University, CAIR, using their typical ploy to silence critics,...
- There's No Honor In Murders Of Women Under Islam
Michael Curtis at The Commentator writes about how honor murders still reign supreme under Islam, with little or no consequence: Law in the patriarchal Arab countries, as in the Ottoman Empire, has sustained the cultural tradition that women have an inferior...
- Religious Crime In The West
A while ago I posted this article, "Young Muslim women forced to suicide". It is about a hidden aspect of the so called honor killings. At the time I tried to find some hard numbers to back up the article. But in most countries the numbers are conveniently...
- Young Muslim Women Forced To Suicide
From Sweden comes the news (link to Danish newspaper) that as an replacement for honor killings young Muslim women are forced to commit suicide by their families. "Balcony girls" is the term for girls who are forced to suicide by jumping from balconies...
- How Muslim Women Are Let Down By Us
USA Today has got interesting and disturbing news: Young Muslim women in Europe go to extremes to be virgins — again Photo: Michel Euler, AP Dr. Emmanuelle Piet, who has been issuing five to six virginity certificates a year for three decades, poses...
Green Energy
Some polls from the streets of Islam
I stumbled on this article from Die Welt. It has a few interesting numbers:
30% of all Turkish students [in Germany] find honor killings a "legitimate reaction" to defend the honor of the family.
55,3% find that women absolutely must be virgins until marriage.
In Ankara at the Middle East University 77% believe it is a man's right to beat a women if she for example lets the food burn.
If the reader is in doubt - the Turkish are known to be relatively moderate compared to other Muslim countries.
- Brandeis U Caves To Cair Withdraws Honors From Heroine Ayann Hirsi Ali
Brandeis University has become the latest entity to capitulate to the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) campaign to silence critics of Islam. In an open letter to Brandeis University, CAIR, using their typical ploy to silence critics,...
- There's No Honor In Murders Of Women Under Islam
Michael Curtis at The Commentator writes about how honor murders still reign supreme under Islam, with little or no consequence: Law in the patriarchal Arab countries, as in the Ottoman Empire, has sustained the cultural tradition that women have an inferior...
- Religious Crime In The West
A while ago I posted this article, "Young Muslim women forced to suicide". It is about a hidden aspect of the so called honor killings. At the time I tried to find some hard numbers to back up the article. But in most countries the numbers are conveniently...
- Young Muslim Women Forced To Suicide
From Sweden comes the news (link to Danish newspaper) that as an replacement for honor killings young Muslim women are forced to commit suicide by their families. "Balcony girls" is the term for girls who are forced to suicide by jumping from balconies...
- How Muslim Women Are Let Down By Us
USA Today has got interesting and disturbing news: Young Muslim women in Europe go to extremes to be virgins — again Photo: Michel Euler, AP Dr. Emmanuelle Piet, who has been issuing five to six virginity certificates a year for three decades, poses...