Saturday, December 06, 2008

The horrors of "honour" killings...

THE Abu Ghanem clan has lost another one of its women, the 10th in eight years to be killed for supposedly breaching the family's "honour".

The latest victim is Dalia Abu Ghanem, a 16-year-old mother of one, who vanished several weeks ago after an argument with her family.

It's the most recent in a horrific series of "honour killings" that has infested the Abu Ghanem clan of Juarish, an Arab neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ramla, a blue-collar city of 64,000 south of Tel Aviv. More...

See also:

  1. Saudi man cuts daughter's tongue, burns her to death...
  2. Killed for falling in love...
  3. Burying alive 5 women is no big deal in Baluchistan; it's only tradition...
  4. Somalia: 13-year-old girl raped by three men; they go free, but the victim is stoned to death.
  5. Israel's "modesty patrols" and the law...

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