THE father and brother of a Mississauga, Ontario, teenager who was strangled in December, 2007, were sentenced this week to life imprisonment for second-degree murder. Aqsa Parvez was 16 years old when she was the victim of an “honour” killing carried out by her father, Muhammad Parvez, and brother Waqas Parvez, 26. Aqsa, the youngest [...]
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THE body of a 16-year-old Muslim girl has been unearthed in Adiyaman, south-eastern Turkey, where she was buried alive by relatives. According to this report, Medine Memi was found in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a two-metre hole dug under a chicken pen outside her home in Kahta. Her father and grandfather [...]
A 20-year-old Muslim woman has died in an Arizona hospital, nearly two weeks after her father ran her over with his Jeep Grand Cherokee because she had become “too Westernized.” Noor Faleh Almaleki, originally from Iraq, died this week of injuries suffered when she was run over October 20 in a parking lot in the [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 