| | Police estimate there are a dozen or so honor killings in [[Britain]] annually; even more women are sent back home where their fate is never known. | | Police estimate there are a dozen or so honor killings in [[Britain]] annually; even more women are sent back home where their fate is never known. |
| − | [[Germany]] has also seen hideous cases of honor killings. In 2008, in [[Hamburg]], a 16-year-old [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] girl was stabbed 20 times by her 23-year-old brother because "she had become too comfortable with Western life with her uncovered hair, makeup and short skirts."<ref>FOX News: [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,358661,00.html Afghan Girl's 'Honor Killing' Sparks Debate in Germany] (May 27, 2008)</ref> | + | [[Germany]] has also seen hideous cases of honor killings. In 2008, in [[Hamburg]], a 16-year-old [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] girl was stabbed 20 times by her 23-year-old brother because "she had become too comfortable with Western life with her uncovered hair, makeup and short skirts."<ref>FOX News: [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,358661,00.html Afghan Girl's 'Honor Killing' Sparks Debate in Germany] (May 27, 2008)</ref> In a 2009 case of self-[[censorship]] derived from the 2005 [[Muhammad cartoons controversy]], the German book publisher Droste Verlag canceled a novel about this barbaric practice, in fear that the book would offend the Muslim community and spark violent retaliations.<ref>FOX News: [http://www.foxnews.com/world/2009/10/09/german-publisher-fearing-muslim-retaliation-cancels-honor-killing-novel/ German Publisher, Fearing Muslim Retaliation, Cancels Honor-Killing Novel] (October 9, 2009)</ref> |