British Honor Killings Hold Steady at Around a Dozen Annually

Heshu had become too Westernized and had to die.

Heshu Yones, 16, was murdered by her Kurdish Muslim father, Abdalla in 2002. He perceived that her relationship with a non-Muslim brought shame on the family so he cut her throat. (Times Online)

The Daily Mail has the latest news on honor killings that is practiced in Great Britain, via Stop Honour Killings:

Islamic extremists are fuelling the spread of “honour” based violence against women in Britain, the country’s most senior Muslim prosecutor has warned.

Nazir Afzal, the Crown Prosecution Service’s director for west London, said that foreign Islamic terror groups had been identified as the driving force behind one murder and another threat to kill.

He also highlighted two cases in which women overseas had been forced to act as suicide bombers after being accused of shaming their families, and warned that the use of the Muslim faith to justify oppression and violence was spreading in Britain.

Mr Afzal’s comments came at a London conference in which he spelt out the CPS’s determination to bring the “full force of the law” to bear on the minority of Muslims who perpetrated or connived in honour-based violence.

He said that there were estimated to be about a dozen honour killings in Britain each year – and many more incidents of violence and bullying – and expressed concern that the problem was being inflamed by extremist ideology.

“When you talk to women who are victims of this type of behaviour you often find that they will say that their husbands or fathers have been radicalised in the way that they think about women,” he said.

“They will use Islam as a justification for telling women how to behave and for punishing them. There is no religious justification for forcing your children to marry or harming them because they behave in a particular way, but there are people out there who are using their faith as a reason to do this.

“In the past, they might have said ‘do this because I’m your dad’, but when they are radicalised it is making them feel more confident about the way they behave towards the women in their family.

Mr Afzal said that several cases had highlighted the link between extremist Islamic organisations and honour violence. One was a threat to kill a woman, known as B, whose name cannot be given for legal reasons, and the other, 16-year-old Londoner Heshu Yones, who was murdered by her father Abdalla in 2002 after forming a relationship of which he disapproved.

He added: “At least two female suicide bombers in recent months have had their terrible acts attributed to a choice – die for dishonouring your family or die in so-called jihad. There is no way out.”

Previously:
Much Anticipated Turkish Film on Honor Killings Released

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