Honor killings in the United States

Several honor killings have been documented in the United States in recent years.¹ As of 2012 there is no central agency that collects data across all jurisdictions in regards to honor violence in the United States. There is reluctance among some organizations to label events as honor killings to avoid stigmatizing Muslim and Arab cultures. Circa 2017 City University of New York John Jay College College of Criminal Justice professor Ric Curtis lead a team that analyzed honor killing statistics from Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and made a proxy estimate for the United States based on that, resulting in an estimated 23-27 annual honor killings in the U.S. In 2017 Jesse Singal of New York Magazine wrote "there’s effectively no evidence that honor killings are common at all, according to one of the only (if not the only) studies attempting to estimate how prevalent that crime is." Executive Order 13769 "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States" stated that the U.S. federal government would collect information on honor killings committed by foreigners resident in the U.S.; Singal stated that the lack of prevalance of honor crimes in the U.S. In 2015 senior fellow of Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism Farhana Qazi stated that the actual number of honor killings was higher than the reported statistics due to a reluctance to embarrass relatives of the deceased. In 2012 Zuhdi Jasser of the think tank American Islamic Forum for Democracy argued that honor killings were a phenomenon in the U.S. that need to be investigated.² " "Honor killing" under growing scrutiny in the U.S." CBS News . And if international data is bad,[...] state agency attempts to collect data on any kind of "honor" violence, including murders.[...]But the very notion that violence in the name of [...] and anti-Muslim sentiment.³ "Muslim women face threat in U.S." USA Today .⁴