Publisher's Synopsis
"Honor Killing is a practice by which a woman or a girl believed to have dishonored her family name is punished by assassination. "Most honor killings occur in countries where the concept of a woman as a vessel of family reputation predominates," said Marsha Freemen, director of International Women's Right Action Watch at the University of Minnesota. Surprisingly, honor killings are sneaking into America and Canada. In this book, you will read of two sisters, .Sarah and Amina Said, ages 17 and 18 shot dead in a Texas cab by their own father.Noor Faleh Almalaki, 20, Phoenix, Az college student gunned dead in a car by an angry father, Fathima Rifqa Bary, 17, fled Ohio from dad fearing honor killing for blasphemy because she decided to follow Jesus, no turning back, no turning back. But Aqsa Parvez, 16, Mississauga, Ontario, could not escape her murder . Her father Mohammed Parvez and brother Waqas Parvez were charged with honor killing.
