Sunday 3 February 2008

Honor Killings

As Sadiq Khan, the burgeoning Labour MP, discovers he's the potential object of a terrorist investigation, is this strange news-piece unconventionally highlighted by the statistics advocated by Abul Taher in The Sunday Times today:
"According to official figures, 10 to 12 women are murdered in Britain in honour killings each year, but the government has been warned by MPs that this is a serious underestimate. Police often record the deaths as cases of domestic violence, while other girls are driven to suicide or taken away to their family's country of origin and never seen again. Many Asian parents would rather resort to violence against their children than see their reputation tarnished by the perceived dishonour of allowing them to become "westernised"."
I hear millions of Britons shouting at their screens...

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