March 10, 2010
Saudi Arabia
This report reviews the current attempts to reduce escalating conflicts over child bride marriages and in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Egypt
In Egypt religious conservatism is growing.

March 11, 2010
Canada
Federal immigration officials say there’s little they can do to stop “child brides” from being sponsored into Canada by much older husbands who wed them in arranged marriages abroad.
Palestine
There have been over thirteen honor killings in two months in Palestine.
Pakistan
A Christian girl working as housemaid was raped by the son of her Muslim employer. When she threatened to report him to police, she was burnt by the rapist and his sister. Also HERE.

March 12, 2010
Norway (translated, Hat Tip to Islamineurope Blog)
Norwegian-Pakistani parents are afraid their daughters will become Westernized. But the girls say they just want breathing space.
Lebanon
A Lebanese man has been arrested in northern Lebanon for the honor killing of his sister.
Spain
A Spanish woman reported the imam of the main mosque to authorities for polygamy and abuse.
Spain
The seven Moroccans, charged with having set up a court of Sharia law and of having passed a death sentence on a woman accused of adultery, have been released.

March 13, 2010
Pakistan
A Pakistani teenaged girl is murdered after turning down her ‘suitor’.

March 14, 2010
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has a serious child-marriage problem.
USA
A Muslim man, accused of savagely beating a nurse in a New York city bar, is claiming self-defense.
UK
Hundreds of women who came to the UK from South Asia to marry say they are ‘slave’ brides.

March 15, 2010
Malaysia
An 11-year-old Malaysian girl was hospitalized after being abducted by a man who persuaded her parents to let him marry her.
Algeria
The proposal to introduce prison terms for men who beat their wives goes against the Koran and the teachings of the prophet Mohamed, according to the head of Algeria’s Superior Islamic Council.
Malaysia
An 11 year old bride is abandoned and her mother blames “black magic”.

March 16, 2010
Afghanistan
Many Afghan women say they still feel voiceless and they point to government plans to forge peace with the Taliban as a prime example.
Bangladesh
A man who attempted to rape a school girl is fined $144.
India
Muslim women have reacted angrily to a leading Muslim cleric’s advice to keep away from politics.
India
A kiss has landed a British couple in court in Dubai.
Malaysia
Malaysia’s religion minister defends Islamic laws that allow girls under 16 to marry, amid a controversy over two youngsters who were married off to middle-aged men.
Egypt
Ninety eight percent of the foreign women and eighty three percent of the Egyptian women have been subject to sexual harassment in Egypt. Often the blame is placed on the shoulders of the victims.
Egypt
A Muslim woman who became a Christian told Release how she was kidnapped by her relatives, who pulled out her fingernails to try to make her renounce her new faith.
Saudi Arabia
Saudi academics and lawyers have rejected the fatwa of legal adviser Saleh bin Saad Al-Laheedan allowing Saudi women to work as maids, saying such work is humiliating for them.

March 18, 2010
Turkey
A man who given a three-month sentence for beating his six-months pregnant wife, cut off her nose and ears as punishment for having reported him.

March 19, 2010
UK
A teenager, who runaway from her family, was bundled into a car from a Bradford street and kept at a house by relatives.
USA
A Queens, New York man pleaded guilty to stabbing his wife (251 times) to death.

March 21, 2010
UK
Rise in marriages between cousins ‘is putting children’s health at risk’.
Yemen
Muslim women oppose child marriage ban.
Pakistan
Five Muslims allegedly ransacked the house of a Christian and angrily beat his daughters in an effort to get the family to withdraw rape charges.
UK
A man has appeared in court charged with the “honour” killing of a woman whose decomposed body was found in a suitcase.

March 23, 2010
Dubai/Saudi Arabia
A Saudi housewife’s poems blast “evil” extremist fatwas by Muslim clerics and have earned her death threats.
New Zealand
Video about child brides in New Zealand. One 14 year old is forced to marry her rapist.
UK (Hat Tip to Jaye Barr)
Raised in London but born in Afghanistan, Nel Hedayat, 21, always wondered what her life would be like if she’d grown up there. Then she had the chance to find out.

March 24, 2010
Pakistan
A woman is raped after her husband is burned alive for refusing to recant his faith.

March 25, 2010
Malaysia
Muslim activists filed a lawsuit Monday against a Malaysian women’s group, asking it to remove the word “Islam” from its name on the ground that it misleads people to believe it speaks for all Muslims.

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