When It Comes to Honor Murders (This One Just Took Place in Atlanta), Let's Hear It For The Bloggers! And For Their Readers Too

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
July 7, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/313/when-it-comes-to-honor-murders-this-one-just-took

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News of yet another honor murder on American soil (this time in Atlanta, Georgia) is just breaking. The mainstream media is staid and careful and politically correct. The blogosphere is sassy and sarcastic, opinionated and wonderfully irreverent.

I love these bloggers. They know no fear and have no shame and understand that an Islamist war against the West is fully underway and that we must fight back in order to save our civilization and its hard-won values.

A Pakistani father, Chaudhry Rashid, just strangled his 25 year-old daughter, Saneela (or Sandela) Kanwal to death yesterday because she wanted out of her arranged marriage. Kanwal's brother was also present. Rashid's wife, Gina Rashid, described as an African-American woman, (good for that green card), apparently fled the premise in terror as the sounds of murder erupted in a language that was foreign to her. This suggests that she might not have been the biological mother of the murder victim.

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