U.S.: Honor is a rotten corpse here

More than 6,000 "honour" crimes are committed every year -- in the West Bank, Jordan, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, India and Pakistan. In Pakistan the custom is an accepted part of national culture. In Jordan, a man who has killed his wife in a state of rage is entitled to the judge's clemency; the same law applies to a man who kills his wife simply because he suspects her of adultery. It is increasingly common for "disgraced" families to hire bounty hunters, so women who manage to escape to other countries are forced into hiding.

I have since met many of these women. One young girl has no legs: she was attacked by two men who tied her up and put her in the path of a train. Another girl's father and brother tried to murder her by stabbing her and throwing her into a dustbin. There is another whose mother and brothers threw her out of a window: she is paralysed.

I have never met any other burned women. As far as I know, none of them have survived.

Read all of Souad's story. It is a sick and misogynous society that permits such atrocities to be done to its women. Where is the outrage? Where is the outcry against this barbarity? Where are the media outlets denouncing this? Instead, we are fed the pablum that Islamic culture is equivalent to the Western one. Bigups to LGF.