September 9, 2006

Brave Woman Forced to Quit

A German lawyer who specialized in women's rights and who campaigned against forced marriages and honor killings,  who survived two physical assaults including one shooting, was finally forced to quit because of constant Muslim death threats to herself and her young daughter.

Muslim Death Threats Force Woman Lawyer to Quit.

Speaking in English, she said of honour killings and Muslim women in Germany: "And I think that more than 50 percent live in such a situation of fear of honor killings or to be killed. Many of my clients, I am working as a lawyer here in Berlin and I make family and criminal law, many of my clients, women, they say they are feared to divorce because their men say, "If you divorce, if you go to court to divorce, I will kill you."

"So we have a very high number who are very silent, who stay home and don't go out, don't ask for divorce, because they are in fear of being killed because of honor."

She has attacked Germany's bland acceptance of "multiculturalism", and has said that it keeps Muslim women in slavery, rather than forcing the Muslim community to adhere to the same standards as other people living in Germany.
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It is saddening to hear that a brave woman such as this, prepared to stand up to the sexism, oppression and violence at the heart of Islam, has been so let down by the German system. Her message of the evils of multiculturalism, coming from a woman who knows about multiculturalism from the inside out, is a stark reminder to all the bland leftists who think they are "doing good" by encouraging "Muslim culture". To do so is, as Seyran states, to suppress women who would otherwise be full and equal members of our societies.

Posted by Jill Fallon at September 9, 2006 3:53 PM | TrackBack | Permalink
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