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Violence against Muslim women, an upshot by Extremists, says Afzal
Mar 29 2007, Pooja

Nazir Afzal, the Crown Prosecution Service’s director for west London asserted that Islamic terror groups are responsible for a murder and another threat to kill, hence, he concluded that Islamic extremists are igniting the spread of ‘honor’ based...

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