And she's not Dead?

Posted on February 4th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Internal Debates, Misc. News, Uncategorized.

In several places you can find the story of Hind (no not the Moroccan-Dutch singer). Mahmood’s Den, Virtually Islamic and MuslimWakeUp! are my sources.

No the story of Hind is this one:
Hind el-Hinnawy, a 27 year-old Egyptian costume designer who with one bold gesture scandalized a religiously conservative society wallowing in its own schizoid hypocrisy and had her baby in that ambivalent zone of civil (urfi) marriage, going on to file a paternity suit against the famous, or by now infamous, actor, Ahmed Al-Fishawy.

Mahmood’s Den has the shortest and best summary:

And she’s not dead? Her brother, father, uncle, boy next door didn’t kill her to “purify” her family’s name?

I can’t believe it.. what’s the (Arab) world coming to, when a woman has sex out of wedlock, has an [il]legitimate child and then sues the father for paternity and lives to not only tell the tale but challenges the age-old “honour killing” thing?

Have your own say. Mine is: good on you Hind.

Muslim Wake Up has covered the story very thorough.

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