Here’s what faith can do.

Leila Hussein lived her last few weeks in terror… She died in hospital after futile attempts to save her. Her death, on 17 May, is the shocking denouement to a tragedy which had its origins in an innocent friendship.

The final sucker-punch in the story of Rand Abdel-Qader, the young girl murdered by a crowd of bloodythirsty scumbags for liking a British soldier. Leila was brave enough to leave her husband and went to an organisation in Basra that campaigns against honour killings – it shut down after she was killed. One of the campaigners recently received a note that said “Death to betrayers of Islam who don’t deserve God’s forgiveness. Speaking less you will live more.” Lovely, someone tell Tony Blair.