Oppression of Women

North America


US

A runaway teen fears her family after her conversion to Christianity. The teen says her life is in danger and she could be killed in an honor killing.

August 13, 2009 Update
August 21, 2009 Update: Rifqa Bary is staying in Florida. At least for now.

August 24, 2009 It's a well-documented reality that Muslims who leave Islam often risk death, but that's a reality that the mainstream media has yet to acknowledge.

August 25, 2009 Media lies about Rifqa Bary



August 14, 2009

Canada

Crown prosecutors are seeking to send the head of Ottawa's taxi union to jail for up to two years, alleging that a campaign of threatening and intimidating behaviour directed toward his daughter after she turned her back on the family's Muslim beliefs was an honour crime.



September 3, 2009

US

Honor killings are on the rise.



Asia

August 10, 2009

Pakistan

A woman who is shot by her brother-in-law dies in the hospital.



August 12, 2009

Bangladesh

The parents of a rape victim in Faridpur yesterday demanded justice after two men repeatedly raped their 14-year old daughter, recorded the incidents on a mobile phone and later uploaded the video footage on the internet.



August 13, 2009

Pakistan

A 70 year old woman is raped by an 80 year old man.



August 14, 2009

Bangladesh

Gang-rape victim's family is tormented by hunger, threats, and shame.



August 14, 2009

Afghanistan

Afghanistan passes 'barbaric' law diminishing women's rights which allows husbands to deny their wives food if they fail to obey sexual demands.



August 14, 2009

Afghanistan

Fighting for women's rights in Afghanistan. A special burns unit is set up by a French charity for women who set themselves on fire, usually to escape a violent husband or a forced marriage.



August 14, 2009

India

A divorced Muslim woman is ordered to stay away from her Hindu boyfriend for not following Sharia law.



August 16, 2009

Afghanistan

A video: Fighting for women's rights in Afghanistan. Women's rights campaigners say there is still a long way to go to ease the plight of women in Afghanistan.



August 16, 2009

Afghanistan

A video: A campaigner on women's rights who has known Afghanistan's First Lady, Dr Zinat Karzai, for years tells Panorama that women's rights do not necessarily stretch to the president's wife.



August 17, 2009

Pakistan

A man killed his wife - a mother of four children - on Sunday for her dissatisfaction with his second marriage.



August 17, 2009

Pakistan

Violence against women during the last week showed that women are not safe in any part of their age, as one 80-year-old woman was raped and a widow was injured for refusing to marry a younger man.



August 19, 2009

Malaysia

First Muslim woman to be caned in a Malaysian jail for drinking a beer. Update: First Muslim woman to be caned in a Malaysian jail's father wants her sentence to be carried out in public. Update: Beer-drinking Muslim prays before her caning sentence.



August 19, 2009

Pakistan

An Anti Terrorism Court indicted two policemen for kidnapping, raping and murdering a three-year-old girl in Korangi area.



August 20, 2009

Pakistan

In one month 40 women were killed under honor killing in Sindh, province of Pakistan.





August 22, 2009

Afghanistan

Reports of intimidation and fraud, especially among women, is reported in the presidential race.



August 22, 2009

Pakistan

Two brothers allegedly tortured their three sisters, leaving one of them dead and injuring two others here on Friday, police said.



August 23, 2009

Pakistan

A man killed his wife and a relative in the name of honour killing.



August 24, 2009

Pakistan

A man killed his wife, daughter, and niece on suspicion of loose character in the Surjani Town police limits.



August 25, 2009

Bangladesh

Last year in Bangladesh there were 179 recorded cases of acid attacks.



August 27, 2009

Bangladesh

Catholic women of the village of Dewtola can no longer go to mass because of continual threats from local Muslims.



Middle East

August 12, 2009

Jordan

A 41 year-old Jordanian man was charged with premeditated murder after his raped teenage niece was shot dead to "cleanse" the family's honor.



August 14, 2009

Jordan

A pregnant woman is murdered by her brother in an honor killing.



August 14, 2009

Egypt

An Egyptian is charged with genital mutilation of an 11 year old girl.



August 18, 2009

UAE

A couple purchased a girl from her parents, smuggled her into the UAE and forced her into prostitution.



August 21, 2009

Turkey

Ex-husband kills his wife and five family members because she refused to reconcile with him.



August 24, 2009

Egypt

Egyptian police detain the family of an abducted Christian girl.



August 24, 2009

Gaza Strip

Female students in the Gaza Strip will be required to wear head coverings and full-length robes beginning this school year. According to the new regulations, any female student that does not attend class in the proper attire will be sent home.



August 24, 2009

Iran

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's decision to nominate three women as Iran's first female cabinet members since the 1979 Islamic revolution faced stiff criticism Saturday from clerics and lawmakers, as well as from women's rights activists.



August 24, 2009

Saudi Arabia

A Saudi Arabian father forced his 10-year-old daughter to return to her 80-year-old husband Sunday, after she was found hiding at the home of her aunt for 10 days.



August 28, 2009

Yemen

A 10 year old child bride obtains a divorce. The aftermath isn't so pleasant for her.



September 3, 2009

Egypt

How women really live in the Muslim world.



September 3, 2009

Saudi Arabia

A young woman has been given refuge at a woman's shelter after she filed a lawsuit against her father who she claims has been sexually abusing her since the age of three.



September 7, 2009

Israel

A graph of honor killings in Islamic occupied Israel territory.



Europe

August 9, 2009

UK

A woman who claimed she was beaten and sexually assaulted by a diplomat and his royal wife, who brought her to London, has spoken of her fear of reprisals.



August 15, 2009

Denmark

A tour of the town ended badly for a 20-year-old woman in Helsingør, who on her way home was accosted by a man who dragged her into a laundromat, where he forced her to complete oral sex, report the North Zealand police. (In Danish)



August 16, 2009

Britain

British pools impose Muslim dress code on all swimmers.



August 17, 2009

UK

An illegal immigrant who raped two women within days of arriving in Britain has been jailed.



August 17, 2009

Germany

A Kurdish man seeking asylum in Germany kills his wife because she's too independent.



August 28, 2009

UK

Muslim man is jailed for raping two teens in the back seat of his car.



September 2, 2009

France

As thousands of girls and young women prepare to start the new school year in France, activists are sounding the alarm over those who are missing -- teenagers sent abroad over the holidays and forced into marriage.



September 3, 2009

UK

The shocking story of a Muslim woman whose parents wanted her killed because they disapproved of her western lifestyle.



Africa

August 23, 2009

Mali

The BBC reports that a majority of Mali women don't want equal rights.



September 6, 2009

Sudan

Plight of Sudanese journalist who wore trousers shines spotlight on dwindling number of countries who flog their citizens.





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Permalink

Christian Teenager Flees Home, Saying She Fears Muslim Father Will Kill Her

Rifqa Bary: "I am fighting for my life, you guys don't understand...he said he would kill me!"



“When a person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily apostatizes from Islam, he deserves to be killed. In such a case, it is obligatory for the caliph (A: or his representative) to ask him to repent and return to Islam. If he does, it is accepted from him, but if he refuses, he is immediately killed.” — ‘Umdat al-Salik o8.1-2

“Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.” — Muhammad


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ABC News: Christian Teen Flees Home, Says She Fears Honor Killing by Muslim Father

Orlando Sentinel: Runaway teen who fears family after Christian conversion ordered to DCF custody


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