Challenge: Who will create the Aqsa Parvez Shelter for battered Muslim women?
Phyllis Chesler at PJM challenges the multiculti cult and feminists to create battered Muslim women shelters to memorialize the murder of teenager Aqsa Parvez:
In The Death of Feminism: What’s Next in the Struggle for Women’s Freedom, I recount examples of Muslim families both in the West and in the Islamic East who trick their daughters into returning home so that they can kill them.
In Aqsa’s case, within weeks, she ran away from home a second time.
At this point, she really might have been saved—but only if the western shelter had understood that Aqsa needed the equivalent of a federal witness protection program to protect her from her family for the rest of her life. Nothing less would do since her father and brother would have murderously stalked her for the rest of her life. And, Aqsa would also have needed a warm and understanding alternative family to adopt her. Yes—adopt her. Life without a protective family is not a life most Muslim immigrants would deem worth living.
Is Canada prepared to invest in such programs? Are America or Europe?
While we may or may not be able to abolish honor killings in Muslim lands, we are absolutely responsible for the proliferation of Islamic gender Apartheid—or its abolition—in the West…
…Canadians might consider creating an Aqsa Parvez Shelter for Muslim women who are being battered or threatened with honor killing.
I would go further. It is time for Western democracies to start screening potential immigrants in their home countries as to their views about women. If we did so, at the very least, we might have an opportunity to educate would-be immigrants in the ways of the West long before they actually take up residence amongst us.
Hear, hear.
Now, are there any presidential candidates out there who will dare to speak these truths?
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This is a very thought provoking piece by Chesler. These situations go beyond the usual domestic violence cases and we need to find ways to better protect these women. I am still waiting for traditional domestic violence advocates to speak out…but I will be waiting for a long time.
It can’t be publicly known or else it will be blown up.
The list keeps growing and growing.
This young lady escaped with her life but where will she go?
The idea of memorializing Aqsa’s death by creating a shelter for young women is welcome news. I pray it grows legs.
#1 On December 18th, 2007 at 10:24 am, bfly1133 said:
Completely agree with your post.
But,
“…we need to find ways to better protect these women.”
is only the beginning.
If we leave it there, we’ll only be creating a “system” for the women to avoid the loony relatives seeking to kill them.
And, that “system” would likely morph into a government-smothered, bureaucratic, legalistic, over-lawyered, expensive, inefficient, and ultimately ineffective Leviathan.
The barbarians that seek to murder their young women, and the ideological system that urges them to do it, need to be contained and stopped with overwhelming force, if not eliminated.
Prevention, not reaction after the fact, is the ultimate, and only effective, answer.
The Canadian authorities have not even admitted to themselves that the hajib was an issue or religion a factor. They are in full cringe.
I do not think it would work. Attacks against Christians are acceptable (and seemingly even encouraged) in this nation. However, the Islamic “religion” is such that we should be more caring, feeling and understanding of their “cultural differences” and thus, we should willingly tolerate these as simply the acts of caring patrons concerned about the welfare of their families honor.
/Sarcasm OFF
Sadly, this will probably be the very reason that it does not ever come to pass.
Hear, hear.
But so far all we’ve seen is reaction - too little, too late reaction. Hand wringing and “Tut-tut’ing” will never bring Aqsa back.
The perpetrators have literally millions of “advocates” in their corner. We still don’t have anybody that speaks for the victims, particularly these victims of CAIR’s “ordinary domestic violence.”
Of course, it doesn’t stop there. There are literally millions of victims of domestic violence, not only in this country, and Canada, but around the world. Who speaks for them?
We’ve all heard of or read about a murder committed in spite of the victim having a restraining order against the perpetrator. Restraining orders are just pieces of paper. They mean absolutely nothing to someone bent on revenge, or dominance, or “honor.” When the victim is dead or dying, it’s too late for the state to apologize.
The rule of “law” as it is today is basically a rule of dominance. The strong dominate the weak, and the weak have no recourse. WHO SPEAKS FOR THE VICTIMS?
The Feminists and their ilk are only out for two things - power and dominance. In this case, it doesn’t even come close to meeting their ideas. Multiculturalism be damned. She was never a bona-fide feminist, why should we support her?
Opening up a shelter in the name of Aqsa Parvez is all very well and good, but, as Granite said, prevention would have been preferable. At least then she might still be alive. A shelter in her memory is nothing more than reaction.
True, it might help some potential victim in the future, but unless our “politicians” grow a set the size of bowling balls overnight, we ain’t gonna see it.
/rant
Read that, seems to me like the authorities werent too concerned with the fact she had been chained up. “Parents should be more cautious about the safety of their children’s mental and physical health,” Yeah, um maybe parents shouldnt chain their kids up.
We in the Right to Life movement may have to step in and offer access to our facilities -set up to aid young women who wish to carry their unborn children to full term w/o the interferrence of pro-death family members.
The feminists will not offer such aid to young Muslim women. My guess is - because they are getting secret funding from Islamic sources. (Saudi oil somes to mind)
The feminist organizations are NOT pro-life.
The silence of US and worldwide feminists is criminal. It makes a farce of all they are supposed to stand for. Yet another reason why I will never be a hypocritical feminist. I am for the rights of women, which is a radically different thing than feminism.
This story truly saddens me. As a mother, I cannot, under any circumstances, find it in my heart to find any understanding of these Muslim women who help kill their children over a difference of opinion. Islam is attempting to force the world back to the middle ages. It is a battle we must not lose.
Seriously.
She’ll go back to their home and the next time they decide to teach her a lesson she might not be so lucky…
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Muslim apostates go into hiding because as everyone knows they are marked for death when they convert from Islam or in any way denounce Islam. Therefore, waiting for an uprising amongst Muslims to denounce this behavior is futile. CAIR is a PR group whose sole purpose is to convince us that Islam is good.
It’s a wonderful idea on so many ways. Not only is it needed, and would be outstanding outreach, but CAIR’s own comments about domestic violence make it something they would be forced to support.
Assuming CAIR has any integrity at all, which is probably not a good assumption
To the multi-culti apologists who’d say, “Oh, but it’s their culture” - I’d say that we should adopt the British approach to the Indian practice of “Suttee” (burning the widow alive at her husband’s funeral): a British official, when he informed the locals that anyone engaging in the practice would be hanged, got the same “justification” in response.
But it’s our culture.
His own reply was something like, “Very well, then. You observe your culture, and we will observe ours. You build your funeral pyre, and we will build our scaffolds next to it.”
Suttee became a lot less fashionable after that.
Yes! As Muslim Women wake up to realize the oppression they have endured for hundreds of years at the hands of the reprobate, the Right to Life movement is the perfect alliance to provide a mighty fortress of refuge, protection & Freedom to LIVE.
I believe there are batterd women shelters all over the U.S. and Canada, but a shelter is a temporary solution. The followup services to get these women someplace safe for the long term is key.
What we need in conjuction with the shelters is an unground railroad system that can relocate these women (and their children if need be) to start a new life. But as mentioned in the article, with muslims, the husbands, fathers and brothers would stalk her for the rest of her life.
I would guess that as soon as you tried it, the left would start squawking about interference in family decisions, restricting religious practices (as long as it isn’t Christian) etc.
So the quick answer? As soon as one of these women knock on the door of a shelter, every male member of the family and any female member supporting the male attitudes be immediately deported. And if they attempt to come back in, shot on sight. And if they hire a lawyer, shoot them and the lawyer. and if CAIR (or any other muslim group) speaks up on their behalf, shoot the spokesman too.
I remember when “feminists” did speak out against Islam’s treatment of women. FGM, for instance, was topic de’jour for a period of time.
But if memory serves, all of that stopped just about the same time Al Gore challenged the election results in Flordia.
coldfront #15
I totally agree-we Christians are to be prepared to receive them - Eph 6 the Full Armor of God.
I do know that Lutherans for Life has safe havens for women.
side note: I dread the day that the Mighty God must put on His Full Armor (Is:59) again because we Christains are too afraid to engage the enemy with the Full Armor entrusted to us. I pray that Christians come to know that we are in a battle on all fronts.
To #17,
Feminists stopped speaking out against FGM after they got caught obstructing justice in the case of an African woman seeking asylum on FGM grounds who had entered the U.S. on a stolen and altered passport. Michelle wrote about this in a column called, “The Great Clitoridectomy Hoax.”
…& It is a battle of Principalities
which is why so many people don’t really understand what is going down.
In the beginning of Time
the Battle was WON….
the battle of good against evil…
when The Word was made Flesh.
Go ask mo’ham’ed
what is the Name you fear the most??
& WHO is your real Prophet??!
The Battle is RAGING….!.
We won @ the beginning of Time.
& THAT! is why Christians are hated & killed.
The Truth cannot be crushed!
This must stop NOW! some Christian’s need to grow some kahuna’s. More than not are setting around compalacent not really living the life that the almighty intended. Jesus feared nothing or no man, why is it that Christian’s are not taking the examples of Jesus and speaking out loud and clear that we will not tolerate this evil behavior just as he did in the temple. The fact is that some Christians are afraid of the repercutions. In my opinion you can not be a Christian and idley stand by while this is happening to innocent human beings. The question What Would Jesus Do applies here, I doubt he would sit idley by and allow this to happen I believe he is quite angry and calling all his followers to action. We as Christian’s should stand up against this brutal evil religion the religion of Satin. We have nothing to fear not even death as we will live with the savior.
Stand up Christian’s and fight the good fight against evil in the world, yell from the highest mountain top and do not allow this to happen to one more human being. I don’t know what I am going to do but I’ve had enough I am very angry everytime I hear of these atrocities, I believe God is calling me and all Christian’s to ACTION NOW! Don’t wait until tomorrow do something today even if it is emailing this story to everyone you know and don’t forget about it tomorrow either this should stick in your head’s until this is stopped. Think as if this has happened to your daughter or son, how do you feel and what will you do?