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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ACTION ALERT: HELP STOP HONOR KILLINGS

FROM ATLASSHRUGS:

ACTION ALERT: HELP STOP HONOR KILLINGS

Muslims Against Sharia has launched a campaign to quash the increasing occurance of Islamic"honor" killings int the USA.


I am enormously proud to have been asked to chair this campaign and I intend to pursue this vigorously. I ask you to here - sign the petition and write, write, write your Congress people, Senatros, Representatives ....everyone. Please, I implore you to make a difference. Do it for them.

Muslim murderer on loose . Where is media outrage?

There are girls across this great nation living in terror. We cannot sit idly by. Yaser Said is still at large, hidden by the Muslim underground. This must end.

The STOP HONORCIDE! campaign was launched on Mother's Day 2008. The goal of the campaign is to prosecute honorcides to the fullest extent of the law. We want honorcide to be classified as a hate crime and we advocate for every existing hate crime legislation to be amended to include honorcide.

If you wish to support STOP HONORCIDE!, please send us an email with your name,
title (if applicable) and a short statement of support.

If you would like to lobby your elected official(s) to amend current hate crime legislation to include honorcide, you may use the letter below or you can draft your own letter.


Campaign Co-Chairs
Linda Ahmed, Muslims Against Sharia

Pamela Geller, Editor, Atlas Shrugs



Dear Title Name,
(As your constituent,) I urge you to amend name or number of the statute law to include honorcide. Honorcide is a heinous crime practiced in backwards societies. Honorcide or honor killing is a murder of a female by her male family member(s), when a female is believed to have brought dishonor on her family. This so-called "dishonor" includes, among other things, refusing an arranged marriage, being the victim of a sexual assault, seeking a divorce, dating a non-Muslim, or simply refusing to wear a hijab. It is appalling that in twenty-first century America honorcides are still taking place. But what is even more appalling is that honorcide is deemed to be acceptable by members of some religious and ethnic communities. We must put a stop to it. Any form of gender discrimination, especially honorcide, has no place in any civilized society, but especially not in America.
Please introduce the bill to amend name or number of the statute law to include honorcide.

Sincerely,
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