Fadime

Unni Wikan, author of "In Honor of Fadime"

The murder of Fadime Sahindal introduced the Swedish public to the concept of “honor killings”. A Kurdish immigrant who moved to Sweden with her family at the age of seven, she wanted to pick her own husband and refused the man selected for her. She spoke to the parliament about her situation and politicians supported her cause.  Her family threatened to have her killed if she ever returned to her hometown of Uppsala, so for several years she stayed away. However, she decided to come back and say goodbye to her mother and sisters before leaving for Kenya, and her father shot her in the head right in front of them. This sparked a debate about immigration as well as the role of the feminist movement. She is still used as an example of what (in a worst-case scenario) an honor
-based belief system can lead to.  The book "In Honor of Fadime" explains the story in detail.