Stop Honorcide

Outstanding interview with Linda Ahmed, one of the founders of Muslims Against Sharia. This is important because if islam and the West are ever to abide peacefully in this world, islam must change to conform with Western standards. Muslims Against Sharia represent a sea change in the islamic world. Here, Ms. Ahmed discusses honorcide, the islamic fuled murder of (mostly) women who are killed by theur families for bringing "dishonor" on the clan.

FROM FRONTPAGEMAG.COM:

Stop Honorcide
By Jamie Glazov

FrontPageMagazine.com | 7/24/2008
Frontpage Interview's guest today is Linda Ahmed, one of the founders of Muslims Against Sharia. She is also co-chair of the new campaign Stop Honorcide, launched on Mother's Day 2008 on behalf of victims of honor killings.
FP: Linda Ahmed, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Ahmed: Thank you very much for having me here.
FP: Tell us about your new campaign, Stop Honorcide.
Ahmed: As you probably know, honor killings or honorcides are common in non-Western cultures. Even fairly westernized countries like Turkey have a huge honorcide problem. When non-Westerners move to the Western countries, they bring with them their traditions, honorcide being one of those "traditions".
Unfortunately Western media is downplaying honorcide problem in the West for fear of offending immigrant populations. You don't hear names like Amina & Sarah Said, Aqsa Perves, Morsal Obeidi, or Hatin Surucu on evening news.
Honorcide is ignored to such degree that a proponent of honorcide could be prominently featured on an American presidential campaign website

The idea behind this campaign is to attract attention to this problem and to prosecute honorcides to the fullest extent of the law. We believe the most pragmatic way to achieve this goal is to classify honorcide as a hate crime. Some people argue that honorcide should not be assigned hate-crime status because the hate-crimes laws should be abandoned altogether; the crime is a crime and hate motive shouldn't matter.
Muslims Against Sharia have no opinion on necessity of the hate-crime laws, but since these laws exist, why not put them to good use? It doesn't cost much to amend existing hate-crime legislations to include honorcide, but the benefits are tremendous. First, these amendments will shed much needed light on the problem. Second, if that's not done, it won't be long before some clever lawyer will figure out the way to present honorcide as a cultural tradition and use it a mitigating factor. Amending the legislations will make sure that the cultural/traditional nonsense is never used in such way.
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