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Kuwaiti man shaves sister’s head for receiving ‘flirtatious texts’

Al Arabia

A Kuwaiti man was stopped by police as he attempted to shave his sister’s head on the suspicion that she was behaving inappropriately on her mobile phone, reported al-Watan newspaper.

According to the newspaper the man, who was not named, went through his sister’s phone and found messages of a romantic nature which enraged him.

He began to shave her head as punishment and to “protect” his family’s honor, the Egyptian online newspaper Bikaya Masr quotes al-Watan as reporting.

The sister was able to call the police during her ordeal and they arrived and intervened.

Honor crimes are not unique to Kuwait, nor are their incidents restricted to the Arab world.

A Canadian man of Afghan descent is currently on trial in Toronto for the 2009 murder of his first wife and three daughters in a case of honor killings.

A German man of Lebanese descent shot his step daughter, Rola El-Halabi, a well-known boxing personality in Berlin last year because she was involved in a relationship with a non-Muslim.

There are many stories to illustrate that honor crimes are not restricted to one religion or nationality.

A Kuwaiti man slit the throat of his 14-year-old daughter in 2005 because he suspected her of having sex reported the BBC.

He is reported to have blindfolded and bound her before murdering her in front of her siblings.

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Salafists Shut Down University: "We Want Right For Female Students To Wear Hijab"

Digital Journal

Manouba (Tunisia)

A protest by Salafist students who want the right for female students to be able to attend class wearing the hijab, has closed a university campus in Tunisia for over a month.

The university campus of Manouba, Tunisia, has been closed since December 6 as a group of Salafist students hold the school to hostage over the issue of the hijab. What began as a small protest by two female students determined to be allowed to wear the full face veil to classes, has developed into a stand off between a group of about 60 Salafists and the university, which refuses to accede to their demands.

According to FT the protest has prevented 13,000 students from attending their classes. Now a group of 200 anti-niqab protesters have begun to demonstrate. The university stands firmly in favour of education remaining secular as it was under the rule of President Bin Ali. The faculty has presented its reason for not compromising and allowing those female students who wish to wear the hijab to do so. It cites the possibility of weapons being hidden, students hiding cheating devices and the "difficulty of teaching pupils whose facial expressions are concealed."

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