Sixteen-year-old Aqsa Parvez was strangled to death last December after she and her father Muhammed Parvez had quarreled over her refusal to wear the hijab (Muslim headscarf).  Mr Parvez was arrested the day of her death and initially charged with…

In the city of Bradford, England, 33 school children are missing and unaccounted for.  It is feared that they and other missing pupils have been forced into arranged marriages.
This and other disturbing information has been gathered recently by th…

The United Nations estimates that about 5,000 young Muslim women every year are killed by male relatives who believe the woman has shamed the family.  More and more of these so-called “honour killings” are occurring in Western Europe, …

Many Muslim women in the West are living in isolation and constant fear of violence from the men who control their lives.  In families that live according to fundamentalist Islam, men and brothers have free rein to beat and kill women and girls wh…

The UK needs more courageous men like Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, head of Britain's Muslim Parliament, who has spoken out following a coroner's ruling that Shafilea Ahmed (at right) was murdered.
One of Britain's leading Muslims has called on…

It’s time for them to denounce perpetrators as betrayers of Islam and undertake measures to ensure that violence and oppression are not taught in mosques and not tolerated in the community.

“I don’t want the public to think that this is really an Islamic issue or an immigrant issue,” said Mohamed Elmasry of the Canadian Islamic Congress. “It is a teenager issue.”