To Zella re honor killings

Submitted by yasemin (Canada), Jul 31, 2008 at 13:39

I'm in total agreement - honor killings in the West need to be stopped. This is supposed to be the place where freedom lives, where one can be safe from the insanity of primitive practices. Well, it used to be but not anymore. Here in Canada muslims continue to brutalize women through this practice, the latest case being that of the murder of Aqsa Parvez by her father and brother. The brother was at first charged with "obstruction of justice". The Canadian way of saying we have to be nice to the immigrants. Thankfully sanity prevailed and the charge was upgraded to first degree murder, like the father's charge.

And that isn't the only case. A professor from Memorial University in Canada stated in a news article on the subject of honor killings in Canada: "You will see, 10 years down the road, this will not be very new for even a society like Canada," he said. "A special watch is warranted from a legal point of view." http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=d05e437f-4661-4965-9455-ff30c6b9d4a5&k=20265

You're absolutely right that more attention to this is needed. A search on a major news broadcaster here showed no follow-up of the Parvez case and only a couple of news items elsewhere in a google search revealed the date of the preliminary hearing. Which leads me to conclude that we can't rely on news to instigate change and also maybe we are getting too used to this and it no longer merits the attention of journalists.

We've had a similar experience in having lived abroad and I, too, kept my mouth shut and acted respectful. But damn it this is the place where you're supposed to be free. Doesn't anyone at the border hand these thugs a pamphlet on how to be a human ? What's happening here because of muslims is causing many of us to demand much tougher immigration rules. But what's also needed are tougher laws in the event that some of these people get in the door. And there need to be women's groups fighting here to see an end to this crap.

Useful link: http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=1772&newlang=english

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