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In 2005, 1,181 women were murdered by an intimate partner.1 That's an average of three women every day. Of all the women murdered in the U.S., about one-third were killed by an intimate partner.
According to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, women experience about 4.8 million intimate partner-related physical assaults and rapes every year.
According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, which includes crimes that were not reported to the police, 232,960 women in the U.S. were raped or sexually assaulted in 2006. That's more than 600 women every day.
www.now.org...
On average, two women in England and Wales are killed every week by a current or former male partner.
One incident of domestic violence is reported to the police every minute.
There were 48,801 incidents of domestic abuse recorded in 2006-07 in Scotland.
One in five women in Northern Ireland has experienced domestic violence.
www.endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk...
reply to post by mkgandhas
so? Hasn't west been waging genocide on hundreds of millions and billions for centuries?
Originally posted by gladtobehere
Obviously, this is an attempt to vilify the current enemy of choice: the Muslims.
However, violence towards women in both the US and UK is hardly limited to the Muslims.
European police are meeting in The Hague to look at ways of tackling the rising phenomenon of "honour killings".
In England and Wales police are reinvestigating more than 100 murders they suspect could be honour killings.
Police say some of the murders were carried out by contract killers hired by the families.
Originally posted by SheeplFlavoredAgain
Okay then, looking at it another way, approximately four out of five young British erm,..."Asians" do NOT condone honor violence.
Originally posted by SheeplFlavoredAgain
Why are we ignoring a majority number of modern thinking enlightened Muslims because of a bad fifth?
Originally posted by ollncasino
The newspaper report uses the word 'Asian'. While in the USA this has a wider meaning, in the UK it is now a code word for 'Muslim', particularily Pakistani Muslims.
To identify honour killings with Muslims is apparently to be avoided even though they carry out 96% of honour killings in Europe.
www.meforum.org...
Luckily only 6% of those questioned felt that an honour killing was justified. That is still a large number of young people in real terms however.
Originally posted by buckeye13
I do not think that you really understand what you are talking about.
Izzat is a belief in the reciprocation of deeds, whether they be good or bad, and it is rooted in a society that is different from the west.
Izzat (Hindi-Urdu: इज़्ज़त or عزت) refers to the concept of honor prevalent in the culture of North India and Pakistan. It applies universally across religions (Hindu, Muslim and Sikh), communities and genders.
Maintaining the reputation of oneself and one's family (especially women) is part of the concept of izzat, as is the obligatory taking of revenge when one's izzat has been violated.
Although the concept of izzat has been viewed as curtailing the freedom of women, it is also a strongly egalitarian concept that cuts across social hierarchy and enforces "equality in giving, but also equality in vengeance
en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by buckeye13
Just because someone believes in something that you do not, whether it be religious, or an idea of honor, I don't feel like it is right to judge. Luckily.
Muslim immigrant men have been accused of six "honor killings" in the United States in the past two years, prompting concerns that the Muslim community and police need to do more to stop such crimes.
"There is broad support and acceptance of this idea in Islam, and we're going to see it more and more in the United States," says Robert Spencer, who has trained FBI and military authorities on Islam and founded Jihad Watch, which monitors radical Islam.
USA Today
Originally posted by mkgandhas
so? Hasn't west been waging genocide on hundreds of millions and billions for centuries? thing is that the biggest barbarians are the most noisy ones about 'human rights' in zones where massive natural resources exist.
Originally posted by aardvark888
What a joke - he started a false religion, resurrecting the moon god as Allah - he was a mass murderer and a pedophile. To say he was 'pure' is vile.
In the space of a single decade
Muhammad
• fought eight major battles,
• led eighteen raids,
• planned another thirty-eight military operations where others were in command but operating under his orders and strategic direction.
HistoryNet
"I was ordered to fight all men until they say 'There is no god but Allah."
Prophet Muhammad's farewell address, March 632
yalepress.yale.edu...
Can you picture what will be So limitless and free...
Lost in a Roman...wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane Waiting for the summer rain, yeah
The west is the best Get here, and we'll do the rest
And he came to a door...
and he looked inside Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother...I want to..
Originally posted by ollncasino
The vast majority of honour killings are carried out by Muslims killing other Muslims.