IN ITALY, TARGETS OF HONOR MURDERS GET PROPER PROTECTION

As the fate of Rifqa Bary appears on the horizon again, Atlas Shrugs features some news translated from Italian sources that show how, just like in France, authorities there too are making efforts to protect women from Muslim families who fear for their lives. For example, from Mediaset:

“He wants to kill me.” That is what a 15-year-old Moroccan girl says about her father, who frequently beat her, so she left home.

Her father is a Moroccan worker who has lived in Italy for 25 years. He beats her up because she has an Italian boyfriend, and he keeps reminding her that she is Muslim – “Tu sei musulmana” – and she should not have an Italian boyfriend. His beatings, and his attitude, became so worrisome that she fled from the house and is now staying in a “comunita” (a kind of group-home that serves as a refuge for those who flee their family situation).

At the end of the very short item, there is a brief interview by phone with a politician who discusses how how one political party, the Northern League or Lega, wants to have a national law passed that will ban the niqab, for at present the situation depends on the local officials, the mayor, of reach town, to decide for himself how to deal with the niqab problem as he sees fit.

And here's another from Il Giornale:

Amo un italiano, papà mi uccide" Marocchina di 15 anni sotto scorta “

I love an Italian, daddy wants to kill me” Moroccan 15-years-old under protection

(in Italian)

«Her request for help is heartbreaking: «Help me, I do not want to end up like Hina and Sanaa». She said in tears to the Carabinieri of Pavia, just a few hours ago, a Moroccan fifteen-years-old escaped from his home in Voghera. And the soldiers have moved immediately: "Now the student is in a protected location in Lombardy, away from the parents herself accused of having threatened to give her the same end of Sanaa. Besides, its history, for some months now, is similar to that of two girls, had their lives took for the only "guilty" of loving an Italian, and not a Muslim, man. A script already seen.

The young girl knows an Italian, they liked one another, they start to go out together. He has the same age: a clean story. Yet parents do not go at all well. The father, as soon as he discovers it, screams her again, and again, that she must break off this story. Finally, a bit for filial obedience, much more for fear the teenager obeyed. But only briefly. Finally she cannot bear it no more. She takes up to frequent the Italian kid. And unfortunately she is eventually discovered. The mother in fact found a note in his pants, thrown in the basket of dirty laundry for the washing machine. It says: "I cannot forget the past with you." From there, the hell with the family.

The harassment starts. Her father beat her repeatedly and threaten her of death: "I'll give you the same end of the others ..." alluding to the most horrific cases of poor Muslim girls massacred because they were trying to break free from a fundamentalist and dull world. Beatings and threats that the mother have witnessed as well, without blinking, but rather sharing this "method of education”. The girl tries to cling to whatever is around her, had her friends contact the Social Services, as she will explain later to the police too. But everything remains as is. Nobody took her away from that family that now beats and insulted her almost every day. The angry phrase she hear is always the same: «Raki daimen Muslima u-maghribiyya (you are still/forever Muslim and Moroccan). These are your roots, you must not forget, and that is why you cannot attend Italian boys who are not Muslims. Your father feels dishonoured». Then the blows.

The emphasis that the media have given to cases of Hina and Sanaa moves her react. Thanks to what she saw she is conscious of what can be the end. She rebels and saves herself. And the parents lose a daughter. When she decides to run away from home is disoriented, does not know what to do or where to go. But she proved stronger than she has ever suspected. Thinks of one Italian friend of her. Contacts her and goes to her place. She stayed there a night. The next day she took the train with her, destination Pavia. Once they arrived in the [provincial] capital the decision triggers: to get help from whom, certainly will not underestimate their cry of despair.

So she enter the barracks of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, and tells all. She knows that to rebel could win her a life without regrets, where she can freely decide her own fate. And at the sentinel that stops her at the entrance she says, without hesitation: «I want to make a complaint." Allegation that begins with tears, but ends with a half smile. Because at once she is told that she will not return in that house. Finally her terror is listened. Now, of this case, will take care the Juvenile Court».

This is exactly what the US should be taking a page from, and helping women from Muslim families find the proper shelter they seek, not subjecting them to ludicrous legal procedures.

See also this article from Phyllis Chesler that tells more about how Italy's got a movement growing that wants to ban the burqa like in France, and how Egypt, of all places, wants to do the same.