Sky News and the Washington Times report on Britain’s decision to press for prosecution in 117 so-called “honor killing” cases.

More than 100 deaths and disappearances of Asian women are being reinvestigated to ensure they were not victims of ‘honour’ crimes.

They can involve suicides, false imprisonment, forced marriages – and even murder, as happened to Heshu Yones, 16.

Heshu was stabbed to death two years ago in Acton, London, by her Kurdish father – who believed she had dishonoured the family by having a boyfriend.

There are 117 other suspected ‘honour killings’ currently under investigation in the UK alone.

Suicides among such women in Britain are three times the national average.

When this sort of stuff happens in Afghanistan we think we can only do so much about it, but when it happens in a “lawful” developed country we should take decisive action which is what Britain seems to be doing. In other countries, like France for example, when the government tries to step into cases like these it further radicalizes the youth (Muslim youth in the case of France) who feel their customs are under attack. Some clerics fuel this paranoia with lectures on how good Muslims should follow Sharia law. NPR’s Sylvia Poggioli has been doing an excellent series of stories on this phenomena of the growing radicalization of the Muslim youth in Europe.