Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Bulletin of the Oppression of Women March 21 - April 17, 2010

March 21, 2010
UK
A man has appeared in court charged with the "honour" killing of a woman whose decomposed body was found in a suitcase.

March 24, 2010
Indonesia
A man in Klaten, Central Java says he sold an underage girl as a prostitute in order to pay for his hair treatments.

Indonesia
Other 12-year-old girls complain about homework and exams, but a fifth-grader in Medan had to run away and sneak into school just to attend classes after her father forced her to marry a 60-year-old man.

UK
A muslim who whipped a schoolgirl with a belt buckle because she had not prayed has been spared jail.

March 26, 2010
Pakistan
Police turn a blind eye to rampant kidnapping and rape of Hindu girls.

Indonesia
Taking Islamic law as its guide, leading Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama issued a fatwa declaring underage marriage acceptable as long as the purpose of the union was to build a happy family.

March 27, 2010
Indonesia
The minimum age of 16 years to marry under the prevailing 1974 marriage law is not a sharia-binding regulation for Muslims.

March 29, 2010
Norway (translated. Hat tip to Islamineurope)
A 23 year old man is suspected of marrying his 14 year old cousin.

UK
Teenage girls who are forced to convert to Islam by Muslim men are being protected by police.

March 30, 2010
Afghanistan
Sold, raped and jailed, a girl faces Afghan justice.

UK
A wealthy businessman drugged and raped a teenage girl at his Mayfair home after paying an associate £300 to bring her to him.

March 31, 2010
Pakistan
As many as 20 to 25 girls from the Hindu community are abducted every month and converted forcibly.

Norway (translated. Hat tip to Islamineurope )
A Chinese imam defends a husband's right to beat his wife.

US
Honor Thy Father: A Muslim man in Phoenix "honor killed" his Americanized daughter.

April 2, 2010
UK
Four Muslim "teen" asylum seekers arrested for pool sex attack on 13 year old girl.

April 3, 2010
UK
A father holds his 24 year old daughter hostage in Saudi Arabia. The Canadian woman can't leave the country without her father's permission.

April 4, 2010
Netherlands (translated. Hat tip to Islamineurope)
A wife murderer is sentenced to 24 years in jail.

April 5, 2010
Turkey
The attempted suicide by a girl who is 54 years younger than her husband lights up once again the long-running controversy surrounding early marriages in Turkey.

Turkey
A husband cuts off his wife's nose in Turkish village and then she is beaten by the police.

April 7, 2010
US
Update on Christian convert Rifqa Bary who's fighting to remain in the US.

April 10, 2010
Yemen
A 13-year-old Yemeni child bride who bled to death shortly after marriage was tied down and forced to have sex by her husband. Update HERE.

Saudi Arabia
A wife hides in a mosque to escape from her husband.

UK
A 21 year old young woman escapes from Saudi Arabia after being held by her father for 10 years.

April 12, 2010
UAE
A businessman is jailed for attempted rape.

India
A 5 year old girl is allegedly raped by a cleric.

April 13, 2010
Egypt (translated, Hat tip to Jawa Report)
A brother finds his sister at a party, beats her to death, stabs and burns her.

Yemen
An 11-year-old Yemeni girl who was married to a man in country's Hajja province was hospitalized with genital injuries.

Pakistan
A Muslim tricked a 19-year-old Christian woman into leaving her house here on April 1, and he and a car full of friends took her away, according to her family.

April 14, 2010
UK
A woman who once fled Saddam Hussein's regime was battered to death and then set alight by her ex-husband.

Afghanistan
A gunman lying in wait shot and killed an 18-year-old woman as she left her job, casting a spotlight on a stepped-up campaign of Taliban intimidation against women.

April 15, 2010
Pakistan
Colleagues throw acid on a female lawyer.

April 16, 2010
Turkey
Turkish police Friday detained an unmarried mother and six other people near Istanbul for their suspected role in the so-called "honor killing" of a 2-day-old baby girl.

Egypt
Sunni Islamic supremacist Egyptian cleric Mazen Al-Sarsawi promotes wife beating and denounces women's rights.

April 17, 2010
Egypt
Fifteen year old girl is subjected to acid attack.

Produced by www.politicalislam.com
Publisher: Bill Warner; Editor: Asma Marwan

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