Michelle Malkin » The murder of Aqsa Parvez

The murder of Aqsa Parvez

By Michelle Malkin • December 11, 2007 12:01 PM

The nightmare of sharia is alive in Canada. Shame, shame, shame:

A Mississauga, Ont. man will be formally charged on Tuesday with murder in connection with the death of his 16-year-old daughter.

The girl, Aqsa Parvez, was in critical condition on Monday after being strangled, apparently after a dispute with her family over her refusal to wear the hijab, the Islamic headscarf worn by some Muslim women.

However Peel Regional Police said Tuesday the girl died late Monday night.

Police arrested the victim’s 57-year-old father, Muhammad Parvez on Monday morning after receiving a 911 call from a Mississauga home from a man saying he had killed his daughter. He is due to appear on Tuesday in a Brampton, Ont. court.

The victim’s 26-year-old brother, Waqas Parvez, was also charged with obstructing police.

Friends of the teenager, a Grade 11 student at Applewood Heights high school, said Monday they were shocked by the attack on the outgoing, likeable girl, but said she had been threatened by her strictly religious family before.

Ebonie Mitchell, 16, a friend of the victim, said the conflict with her father over wearing Islamic dress came to a head at the beginning of this school year. “She just wanted to dress like we do,” she said. “Last year, she wore like the Islamic stuff and everything, the hijab, and this year she’s all western. She just wanted to look like everyone else.”

Fellow students of Aqsa’s spoke to the National Post. Said one:

‘‘She wanted to live her life the way she wanted to, not the way her parents wanted her to. She just wanted to be herself, honestly she just wanted to show her beauty, and not be pushed around by her parents telling her what she has to be like, what she has to do. Nobody would want to do that.’’
— Krista Garbhet

The home where the teen was attacked is the listed address of Muhammad Parvez, a Mississauga cab driver. “He was Muslim and very devout, very observant,” said one of his fellow drivers at Mississauga’s Blue and White Taxi, who did not want his name used. “He was always stopping to take breaks and pray: three, four times a day.”

His eldest son, also named Muhammad, also worked as a cab driver and lived in the family home with his wife and at least one child, the driver said. Several people inside the home were questioned by police before being allowed to leave.

Neighbours said the family moved in just over a year ago.

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#193611

On December 12th, 2007 at 10:25 am, joeblough said:

It is critically important that this murderer suffer the severest penalties provided by Canadian law, whatever those are.

It is particularly in criminal law that a society asserts its moral values.

It is critically important that the jihaddis be shown that their alleged morality (and their standards of behavior are very depraved) is inferior to that of the west — that we regard their “morality” as criminality.

That is how you “win hearts and minds”.
#193647

On December 12th, 2007 at 10:55 am, DBNinKY said:

Could someone please tell me why the MSM are so keenly set on framing the GOP presidential primary around the efficacies of Mormonism, when the most clear and pressing danger to everyday Americans is represented by the radical adherents of Islam?

I only hope the Canadian government can muster-up the judicial fortitude to prosecute the guilty in this case in order to send the message that such acts – even in the name of a religion – will not be tolerated and stop any future recurrences like this, but I doubt it.

Canada is just too P.C. to interfere with what may be termed by some a religious matter.
#193812

On December 12th, 2007 at 12:58 pm, TXRose said:

Canada may also be averse to prosecuting this man because they may be afraid of
Canadian Muslims rioting because he is being tried for an honor killing. It hurts my brain to put honor and killing together.
At least Aqsa is in a place where she never has to cover her hair again, but that she had to die for this to happen is hideous.
#194243

On December 12th, 2007 at 7:03 pm, walterc said:

My response from NOW:

My email to NOW:

Comments:

Just wondering if there is going to be a NOW press release regarding honor killings in muslim homes, similar to the one reported below in Canada.

NOW’s response:

Dear Walt,

At this time I am not aware of NOW releasing a statement regarding honor killings occurring in Muslim homes. On that same topic however, NOW has released a statement formally supporting the International Violence Against Women Act, which denounces ‘Honor Killings’. This statement was released on 10/8/07 and this is a link to that statement if you are interested: NOW Supports Legislation that Denounces ‘Honor’ Killings and Violence Against Women. I hope that helps you.

In Equality,

Mari

—–Original Message—–
From: Walt Campbell [mailto:walterc@vcn.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:05 PM
To: now@now.org; member-info@now.org
Subject: comments concerning Sharia Law
#195157

On December 13th, 2007 at 4:04 pm, TXRose said:

Wow! what a forceful denouncement of honor killings!

sarc off

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