﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>honor killings news stories on Newser</title><description>Read more honor killings stories on Newser</description><link>http://www.newser.com/taggrid/22536/honor-killings.html</link><copyright>2009 - Newser</copyright><language>en-us</language><generator>Newser Feed Generator</generator><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 7:08:43 CST</pubDate><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/72276/dad-runs-over-westernized-daughter.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Dad Runs Over 'Westernized' Daughter</title><description>Police in Arizona are searching for an Iraqi man they believe mowed down his daughter and a friend in a parking lot because she had become "too Westernized" and abandoned traditional Iraqi values. The daughter, 20, is in a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. Her friend has been hospitalized with...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/72276/dad-runs-over-westernized-daughter.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 1:41:29 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/71742/runaway-muslim-girl-sparks-furor.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Runaway Muslim Girl Sparks Furor</title><description>An Ohio teen has found herself straddling the fault line between the world's two biggest religions after converting to Christianity and running away from her Muslim parents. A judge in Florida, where 17-year-old Rifqa Bary was being sheltered by pastors she met on a Facebook group, has ruled that she...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/71742/runaway-muslim-girl-sparks-furor.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 5:40:00 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/67120/death-squads-ramp-up-killings-of-gay-iraqis.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Death Squads Ramp Up Killings of Gay Iraqis</title><description>Hundreds of gay men have been executed in Iraq in the last few months, CNN reports. Though homosexuals are stigmatized in Iraq, and honor killings by family members have been reported, some of the recent murders have been carried out by government security forces, Human Rights Watch says. “The peak...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/67120/death-squads-ramp-up-killings-of-gay-iraqis.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:05:01 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/65204/man-forced-to-drink-acid-in-uk-honor-attack.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Man Forced to Drink Acid in UK 'Honor Attack'</title><description>A London man was beaten, stabbed, and forced to drink acid in what police believe was an "honor attack," the Daily Mail reports. The victim lost his tongue in the attack and remains in critical condition. Police believe the man, who was originally Danish, was attacked because he was suspected...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/65204/man-forced-to-drink-acid-in-uk-honor-attack.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 7:02:05 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/51123/ny-wife-beheading-blasted-as-honor-killing.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>NY Wife Beheading Blasted as 'Honor Killing'</title><description>The gruesome beheading of a wife in upstate New York by her Muslim husband has been blasted as a retaliatory "honor killing" against a spouse seeking divorce, reports the Buffalo News . “This was apparently a terroristic version of honor killing, a murder rooted in cultural notions about women’s subordination to...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/51123/ny-wife-beheading-blasted-as-honor-killing.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 4:36:09 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/36672/teens-buried-alive-in-honor-killings-spark-pakistan-rage.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Teens Buried Alive in 'Honor Killings' Spark Pakistan Rage</title><description>Nationwide protests have erupted in Pakistan since three teenage girls were buried alive in mid-July in a remote village because they planned to choose their own husbands, reports the Times of London. The girls—ages 14, 16 and 18—were abducted and tortured, then buried still breathing. Two older women...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/36672/teens-buried-alive-in-honor-killings-spark-pakistan-rage.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 4:59:34 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/31991/georgia-dad-charged-in-daughters-honor-killing.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Georgia Dad Charged in Daughter's 'Honor Killing'</title><description>A Pakistani-born Georgia man appeared in court yesterday accused of strangling his daughter with a bungee cord after she filed for divorce, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The man's wife told police that he had argued with his 25-year-old daughter over her plans to end her arranged marriage. The father maintains...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/31991/georgia-dad-charged-in-daughters-honor-killing.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 6:25:27 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/28933/iraqi-honor-killing-mother-gunned-down.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Iraqi 'Honor Killing' Mother Gunned Down</title><description>The ex-wife of an Iraqi man who beat, choked, and stabbed their 17-year-old daughter to death over an innocent crush on a British soldier has been gunned down, the Guardian reports. Leila Hussein had been staying in a series of safe houses while arrangements were being made to flee the...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/28933/iraqi-honor-killing-mother-gunned-down.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 8:46:52 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/27159/honor-killing-dad-daughter-deserved-death.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Honor Killing Dad: 'Daughter Deserved Death'</title><description>The Iraqi father who suffocated and stabbed his 17-year-old daughter has only one regret over her honor killing: That he didn't murder her "the instant her mother delivered her." "Speaking with a foreign solider, she lost what is the most precious thing for any woman," Abdel-Qader Ali tells the Guardian...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/27159/honor-killing-dad-daughter-deserved-death.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 11:11:42 CDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>