Honour Killings: Brother charged in Muslims Sister's Death

by Barry Artiste | June 27, 2008 at 09:43 am | 296 views | 2 comments

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Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor

Canada once again has another tragedy on it's hand over Culture, in what seems to be a long standing clash of cultures in which dozens of women are murdered by family members by not abiding to a Mans wishes on how they should act, dress, speak and associate with others, even in their own household.

Politicians lack of backbone in their undying quest for the ethnic vote are also complicit in their inaction to end this tragedy.

Town hall meetings are useless, information on our western culture, traditions and law need to be stated well in advance in Countries where Immigrants wish to immigrate to this and other Western Countries followed by a series of interviews from Western Immigration officials so immigrants without a doubt fully understand "Assimilation" and what they are to expect in their new country.

A case in point once again, Canada has a young child, who was looking to a future growing up happy and healthy in Canada as all children do, may have her dreams dashed permanently as she lay close to death in an Ontario hospital bed last December, Aqsa Parvez lost her fight and died in what Officers said was a losing battle for her life.

Her father and brother devout Muslims were taken into custody by Police where the father last December was formally charged, and now her brother has now been charged as well as an accomplice  in the murder of strangling his sister, over what school friends say a Girl who just wanted to fit into Canadian society and would remove her head scarf.

Her father, it is said had other ideas how his daughter would fit into Canadian culture and society, by abiding to the repressive Muslim code of dress and strict and repressive morals against women.

Canada seriously has to let all immigrants know before they come to this country what to expect in Canadian Culture, letting immigrants know Western Society and Culture is not like theirs,our Culture states "Freedom for All, as Everyone is equal in the eyes of God". This needs to be ingrained into Devout Immigrants, so they should assimilate, and if our Canadian ways offend them, perhaps they should immigrate to a Muslim country in which to make their life.  

Certainly let us hope this tragedy is an exception to the rule, as most Muslims of the Islamic faith know the difference between right and wrong.  They are Moderate Muslims, sure they wish their children to conform, but Moderate Muslims, like most Canadians with religious upbringing, Grin and Bear it, and do not go about killing their Children to make a point.  A point the child won't learn from anyways if that child is Dead!

Many Muslims come to Canada as their first choice as most Muslim countries are either in a war or turmoil, it certainly speaks volumes of culture and why Muslims avoid immigrating to these fellow Islamic countries, yet choose the democratic countries where they can be free such as Canada, USA and Europe and do not try and change western society to their liking.  But then there are some Radical Muslims of the Islamic faith who insist we change for them!   One would think the Moderate Muslim Canadians would confront these radicals and buy them a one way to ticket to whence they came from. 

These radicals seem to enjoy painting all moderate Muslim with all the same brush, so we all see them as the same "Child Killers" thus inflaming hatred among Western Culture directed unfairly against them (Muslims).

Proving once again, Radical Muslims of the radical Islamic religious mores seem to always trump Canadian Laws who feel justification in attempting to kill their own flesh and blood in order to maintain their own control over women.

My Final Thought

As a parent of two grown daughters, when growing up, teens especially daughters have a mind of their own, that is how they learn to be independence, they fall, you have to be there to pick them up and hope your guidance will help them one day make right decisions.

You do not go out and strangle your kid to death for not wearing a head scarf.

The Debate over reasonable accomodation in Canada must be spelled out to everyone who wishes to make Canada their home. It's okay to be multicultural, just don't go around killing people to attain it.

Because Islam abhor multiculturalism, preferring as their Imams state there should only be one Culture in Canada, an " Islamic Culture!"

Time to "Fish or Cut Bait" it is up to the Moderate Muslim Canadians to stop this, as we cannot do their fighting for them.

The shocking murder of Mississauga teen Aqsa Parvez took another disturbing twist yesterday when Peel Regional Police arrested her older brother and charged him with first-degree murder.

Waqas Parvez, 26, now joins his father Muhammad Parvez, 57, before the courts on pre-meditated murder charges in the Dec. 10, 2007 strangling death of the 16-year-old high school student who friends say did not want to wear the traditional Muslim Hijab head scarf and was rebellious against the strict Muslim rules laid down inside her family home.

At odds with her situation at home, she had been living at a friend's house in the days preceding her slaying.

The Crown will now attempt to prove to a jury that it was that resistance to old-world-thinking, and her embracing a Canadian lifestyle, culture and friends, that resulted in the Pakistani-born Grade 11 Applewood Heights Secondary School student being murdered in a deliberate and thought-out manner.

LONG SEVEN MONTHS

Arrested without incident, her brother, Waqas, previously charged with obstructing police, will appear in the Davis Courthouse in Brampton this morning.

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rpshen
good stuff:

Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.

A tragic story. An example of when religion goes wrong. I think that when you come to a new country, some of the old customs and way of thinking need to go as well. It's not assimilation IMO. It's adapting to a new culture.

Barry Artiste

Thanks rpshen, so true, and thanks very much for your comments







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