The calumniator credited: ‘Honour’ and spin in Islamophobic times

Surveying the reception and impact of the report suggests serious concerns around the complicity of certain sections of the media and their willingness to reproduce and perpetuate negative stories around Muslims. One need only compare the almost wholesale acceptance of such reports with the derision that greets any report from a Muslim organisation that talks [...]

Blame Muslims for honor killings?

You couldn’t ask for a clearer disavowal of the practice, from one of the foremost Western Muslim groups around, no less. Honor killings simply aren’t sanctioned by Islam; nowhere in the Quran are honor killings justified. Groups that are, you know, actually out there doing something to fight the practice tirelessly explain that honor killings [...]

Exploiting the deaths of Muslim girls

Sometimes Muslims get through the day without thinking of jihad, honor killings or what Westerners think of them. They eat, sleep, make love and fight with their husbands or wives like anybody else.
Yet somehow they are held responsible for those crazy Muslims who kill their daughters or wives in the name of honor. It’s as [...]

Familicide presented as honour killing

Admittedly, the programme also showed an incident where a house was set on fire, killing a young girl, in an apparent attempt to murder (or just intimidate) a man seen talking to the sister of one of the murderers. However, only brief coverage was given to classic honour killings, at the beginning of the second [...]