Wednesday, 19 January 2011

'Wear the hijab or I'll kill you, cousin told girl': Muslim tells of terrifying phone threats

Don’t Muslims treat their women beautifully? I know all Muslims mistreat women, but a lot do and it doesn't get called out as much as it should. The biggest cowards Lib women's groups like NOW, don't say a beep.

The Daily Mail reports a man threatened to kill his cousin and harm her family after she decided to stop wearing the traditional Muslim headscarf, a court has heard.

Mohamed Al-Hakim, 29, allegedly phoned Alya Al-Safar to tell her she must die because of the ‘shame’ she had brought – leaving her too afraid to leave the house.


He had already branded her family ‘bitches and whores’ because of her decision, the court heard.
Miss Al-Safar, 21, had stopped wearing the hijab a few days before the phone call.

She said that Al-Hakim’s mother, her aunt Mardhiya Al-Musawi, ‘wasn’t happy’ that she had stopped covering her hair – a step she had been considering for more than two years.

She received his call when she was with her parents and two younger brothers at their home in Hammersmith, West London.

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