The reconstruction of both the killing and the marital history of a Turkish Muslim couple is illustrative of the cultural discourse on violence against women (VAW) among Muslim minorities that is currently evolving in a multi-cultural society that is facing increasingly discriminatory attitudes towards Muslims. Stereotypical images of “culturally” based violence are growing in popularity and contribute to the discursive construction of Muslim minorities as particularly violent, especially towards women, and notably as more violent than the native Dutch. This paper critically addresses how this tendency is playing out in Dutch research.