Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $54,492
67%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 67%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: lislmicviolence

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Italy Is Roiled by Murder of a Pakistani Woman and Other Violence Involving Immigrants

    08/26/2006 3:48:32 AM PDT · by aculeus · 46 replies · 1,275+ views
    The New York Times ^ | August 26, 2006 | By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
    BRESCIA, Italy, Aug. 23 — A series of unrelated killings here this month has pushed this elegant city to the center of a national debate on the challenges of immigration and cultural integration. The trigger was the gruesome killing on Aug. 11 of Hina Saleem, a 20-year-old woman whose family moved here from Pakistan and who was found buried, with her throat slit, in the garden of her family home in a small town about 12 miles north of Brescia. The tragedy ballooned into a cause célèbre after media reports alleged that Ms. Saleem had been killed because her traditionalist...