Europe Cracks Down on Honor Killings
Father Convicted in London, Husband Convicted in Holland - An Entire Clan Convicted in Denmark in Three Separate Cases

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
December 17, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/673/father-convicted-of-honor-killing-in-london

Excerpt:

A decade ago in London, a father terrorized, then plotted to honor-murder his 15-year-old daughter. After attacking her twice, the girl simply…disappeared. Nevertheless, due to a British police decision to revisit and reclassify old cases, the father has just now been convicted of her honor murder.

Although her body has never been discovered, first-person testimony by the girl's mother, Hanim, by her sister, Hatice, (in a video, taken before her death), and by the victim's fiancée, Halil Unal, led to this verdict. In other words: The villains were all Muslims—but so now are the heroes.

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