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Politics : Islam, The Message

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To: AmericanVoter who started this subject8/5/2004 4:48:55 PM
From: Thomas M.  Read Replies (1) of 758
 
Bestseller on honour killing 'is a fake'

by David Fickling

The story has the makings of great tragedy. A woman is killed by her father because of an illicit affair, her childhood friend denounces the murder and flees her Middle Eastern homeland in fear for her life, the story is published and becomes a worldwide bestseller.

But now the Jordanian-born author Norma Khouri is battling claims that Forbidden Love, and the life story she has recounted to book groups and journalists on three continents, is a fake.

Far from being a Jordanian who fled her home in the late 1990s after the "honour" killing of her best friend, Khouri is accused of being an American passport-holder who lived in Chicago from the age of three.

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guardian.co.uk
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