Barbarism In Canada
A 16-year old Canadian girl has been murdered by her own father in Mississauga, Ontario. Her offense? Refusing to wear a hijab, the scarf that has been imposed upon Muslim women.
A 16-year-old girl is dead and her father has been charged with murder after an attack in a Mississauga home.
Aqsa Parvez, a student at Applewood Heights Secondary School, had been on life support in hospital since yesterday morning.
Police went to the family's two-storey home on Longhorn Trail about 8 a.m. yesterday after receiving a 911 call in which a man allegedly claimed to have killed his daughter.
Paramedics found Aqsa with a faint pulse and rushed her to hospital. She was later transferred to a Toronto hospital and placed on life support.
Peel police said this morning that she died overnight.
Friends at the victim’s school said she feared her father and had argued over her desire to shun the hijab, a traditional shoulder-length head scarf worn by females in devout Muslim families.
Homicide investigators had been standing by, as it soon became clear the young girl wouldn't survive the attack.
Muhammad Parvez, 57, has been remanded in custody and was to make his first court appearance today in a Brampton court.
The victim's brother, 26-year-old Waqas Parvez, was also arrested on a charge of obstructing police.
I read things like this and I despair for the west and for the cultural relativism that refuses to call this what it is - barbarism. Canada is, of course, far, far down the road of political correctness and will only send this filicide to prison. But there has to be a special place in hell for one who would murder his own daughter over a scrap of cloth. Michael Goldfarb at the Worldwide Standard points out that the left wing over at the Huffington Post is busily defending the veil and applying an appalling cultural relativism comparing the oppression of women in some Muslim countries to "oppression" in the west.
There's something deeply troubling about the left's embrace of the veil. It's obvious that not all of these women want to wear the veil, and it's obviously the West isn't just as oppressive towards women. But in light of today's news, that last question, which Crittended felt compelled to answer for her left-wing audience, is absurd on its face. We aren't the ones threatened by the veil–the threat is to 16-year-old girls who don't want to wear it, and risk death at the hands of their own family should they refuse to do so. "Culturally different from our customs" is, in this case, nothing more than a euphemism for barbaric.
I don't think western culture is superior to this barbarism.
I know it is.
World news | Gaius Tuesday, 11 December , 2007
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By Anthony (Los Angeles), Tuesday, 11 December , 2007 @ 8:05 pm
And the main Toronto paper is sanitizing this, too.
Barbarism, indeed.
By Mwalimu Daudi, Tuesday, 11 December , 2007 @ 9:36 pm
Why should we be surprised? For decades the Far Left dismissed Soviet imperialism and human rights violations while portraying America as the Evil Empire. It may be a new millennium, but leftist bootlicking of barbarians continues apace.
By martian, Wednesday, 12 December , 2007 @ 2:15 pm
I’m with you, Gaius. Western civilization IS better than that barbarism. The reason is simple, Western culture has matured and become progressively more civil and less violent towards each other over the last millenium or so. Western civilization has developed concepts like religious freedom, peaceful conflict resolution, cooperation for a mutual goal regardless of race, creed, etc.
In the meantime, Islam is still rooted in the 7th century and still espouses the 7th century values in which it was originally based - no religious tolerance, women as the defacto property of men, negotiation is weakness, spread your beliefs by conflict, impostion of your will on others, and the sword. Islam has NOT matured. It has NOT evolved. It is still the same violent set of beliefs that the prophet imposed using the sword and the threat of death in the 7th century.
Yet the liberals seem to feel compelled to defend the practice of this barbarous belief even to the point of rationalizing murder. This is a religion that espouses many beliefs that the liberals claim to have found abhorent in our own culture and have worked for many years to erradicate. Yet, they seem to champion the right of these barbarians to practice those beliefs. Strange are the ways and thought processes of the liberals!