[quote Cadent]@ChardonnaysPetDragon
Do you think every single woman in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, to name a few, will agree with you?
What on Earth have those those countries got to do with a British woman choosing to wear the hijab in the UK? Muslim women aren’t responsible for what happens in other countries.
You are lucky you can have a choice. Many don't.
Ah yes the old ‘be grateful we give you a choice, stay in your box’ ploy.[/quote]
There are around 12 honour killings of Muslim women in Great Britain every year. And yes, some are killed for refusing to wear hijab/niqab.
Mum-of-three Rania , 25, was killed by her husband and buried in a suitcase close to the A19 in North Yorkshire in 2013. Ahmed Al-Khatib was jailed for a minimum of 20 years after court heard he subjected her to years of abuse believing she was becoming too Westernised. Syrian Rania had fled her home with her children but Al-Khatib lured her to a Greater Manchester flat.
A man who murdered his wife and mother of his three children in an honour killing because he believed she was becoming too Westernised was sentenced to serve a minimum of 20 years in jail today.
Ahmed Al-Khatib, 34, became jealous of his 25-year-old Syrian-born wife Rania Alayed when she enrolled at a local college and began studying English.
She gave up wearing traditional dress and made friends with fellow male students. Her husband had subjected her to years of physical and mental abuse eventually forcing her to flee the family home in January last year and seek sanctuary at a homeless refuge in a bid to start a new life.
Shaflia Ahmed was murdered by her parents who thought her Western ways brought shame on the family. The girl had a desire to wear western clothes like her friends. In the lead-up to her killing, at 17, she was the victim of extreme violence at her parents' hands as she resisted their attempts to control her. She repeatedly refused their calls for an arranged marriage and, in the eyes of her parents, thereby brought shame on the family.
The violence meted out by her parents escalated in the months before her death and she was frequently held down and beaten by both of them. Her teenage years were punctuated by household chores late at night at the house in Warrington, Cheshire, before she was allowed to begin her schoolwork.
It was an appalling life, but her parents were keen to keep up the appearance of normality and to hide the abuse from the school, social services and police. If awkward questions were asked, the Ahmeds would claim they were victims of racial prejudice.
Ultimately, Shafilea was killed for her resistance. According to her sister Alesha's evidence, her mother Farzana uttered the final command to her husband: "Let's finish it here", and they stuffed a plastic carrier bag into her mouth as she sat on a settee at the family home, blocking her airways and suffocating her to death.
When Shafilea went missing for the last time in September 2003, her parents did not report it to the authorities. It was a teacher at Great Sankey high school, Joanne Code, who overheard her younger siblings discussing her disappearance. Police were called in and a search was launched on 18 September – a week later. No effort was made by either parent to contact her by phone, unlike other occasions when she was missing and they had called her repeatedly. The officers who were called to the house said her father told them she had only taken western clothes and he seemed "disgusted" by this...