In Canada, Defending Girls from Islamic Honor Killings Is…

In a post 9/11 world, in which the uncritical essentializing of people from the "Third-World" has been legitimized; Iraq and Afghanistan have been dehumanized…

— Nyla Ali Khan

For instance, in the last five years [till 2016], we've admitted nearly 100,000 immigrants from Iraq and Afghanistan. And these two countries according to…

— Donald Trump

Though women may appear equal in some ways, and though we definitely have accomplished a lot, the fact is one in one women will…

— Julie Zeilinger

When I hear from people that religion doesn't hurt anything, I say really? Well besides wars, the crusades, the inquisitions, 9-11, ethnic cleansing, the…

— Bill Maher

“Integrity is doing what is right. Ethics is doing what is right for a society. The philosophy of ethics is very interesting and unsettling.…

— Debasish Mridha

We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a…

— Charlotte Bunch

“Was failure to make tenure track justification for an honor killing?”

— Charles Stross

“The majority of marriages are still forced, honor killings are not unusual, and any involvement of the justice system in a rape case usually…

— Jenny Nordberg

Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification…

— Alice Glass

“Until Islam’s articulate spokeswomen such as Rana Kabbani target their misguided coreligionists with the fervor they expend on outside critics, the grave mistake of…

— Geraldine Brooks

“Isn't it time we asked ourselves, are we willing to accept any behavior codified within religious or cultural practice? Is there no line to…

— Bill Maher

“Religion, by its very nature as an untestable belief in undetectable beings and an unknowable afterlife, disables our reality checks. It ends the conversation.…

— Greta Christina

“The historic importance of the Khidr story is unfortunate, given another lesson that emerges from it in Islamic tradition: don’t kill children, unless you…

— Robert Spencer

“All sanctions stoning to death and honor killings that have implemented and applied in Islamic countries, are only murders with premeditation! Accomplices in the…

— Amany Al-Hallaq

“An “Honor Killing” is nothing more than a vicious, pre-meditated murder committed by a sick, twisted, demented and psychotic fundamental religionist.”

— Al Stefanelli