Honor Murders in the West
I Implore Real Feminists to Speak Out

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
December 13, 2007

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/245/honor-murders-in-the-west

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The sixteen year old was "too modern" for her fundamentalist Muslim family. She craved forbidden North American freedoms which, if practiced, would shame her immigrant family. The struggle over this issue was hot and abusive. The girl was continually attacked and closely monitored. Her own sisters envied and hated her not only because she was allowed to attend school but because her choice of modern dress could harm their own young daughters' future marriage chances.

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