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Anonymous, "allegedly" means that the father is "alleged" to have done it, but the brother had threatened to do it, so it's possible the brother did it and the father is taking the rap for his son. One doesn't have to be "lawyered up" to use the term, only careful.
Silenced - nice post. Best of the thread, I think.
If anyone wants to read more about this from non-Western Muslim women, I'd like to suggest "Beyond the Veil", by Fatima Mernissi (there is an updated second edition and possibly by now a third), a Moroccan sociologist, and anything you can get your hands on by Nawal al-Saadawi, an Egyptian feminist (Egypt, BTW, had its first feminist movement in 1899; in the 80s, the 'feminist resurgence' featured young women adopting the veil as a feminist symbol). This is just a tiny tip of the iceberg, but not a bad place to start.
Also interesting is any account you can find on what happened in 1985 during the UN's Decade on Women (can the name really have been that badly chosen? someone correct me with the proper name!), when Western and Muslim feminists famously failed to see eye-to-eye on what the major concerns were for women in the Muslim world. Sadly, some arguments are never resolved, or transcended.
