Religious Hatred Roundup
Religion inspires a man to kill his daughter, cops and friends say. Toronto Star:
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.
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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.
Goons beat up revelers over religion, cops say. Allegedly self-loathing goon, in one case. AP:
Four Jewish subway riders who wished other people Happy Hanukkah were
pelted with anti-Semitic remarks before being beaten, New York police and prosecutors said. The incident was being investigated as a possible hate crime.The four were on a train in Manhattan on Friday night, during the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights, when they were approached by a group of 10 people who offered holiday greetings. The victims responded, Happy Hanukkah and were assaulted by the larger group, police said Tuesday.…
One of the men charged, Joseph Jirovec, pleaded guilty last year to attempted robbery as a hate crime and was awaiting sentencing, prosecutors said. Jirovec, who is white, was part of a group that yelled racial epithets and assaulted two black teenagers in Brooklyn, prosecutors said.Jirovec’s lawyer, Peter Mollo, said Tuesday it was unlikely his client would attack someone for being Jewish. His mother was Jewish, Mollo said. It’s very unlikely he would do something like this at all.
Pundit afraid to be on the receiving end of religious hatred, but not afraid to spew it. Larry O’Donnell at Hewitt:
HH: Would you say the same things about Mohammed as you just said about Joseph Smith? LO’D: Oh, well, I’m afraid of what the…that’s where I’m really afraid. I would like to criticize Islam much more than I do publicly, but I’m afraid for my life if I do. HH: Well, that’s candid.
LO’D: Mormons are the nicest people in the world. They’re not going to ever…
HH: So you can be bigoted towards Mormons, because they’ll just send you a strudel.
LO’D: They’ll never take a shot at me. Those other people, I’m not going to say a word about them.
Topics: religion
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:10 pm on Tuesday, December 11, 2007
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December 12th, 2007 at 12:22 am
I sat on the sentencing jury for a case very similar to the one in Toronto except in this the mother held her down while the father stabbed her to death with a fillet knife….nice family….
December 12th, 2007 at 11:23 am
Very, very sad, the case in Canada.
Similar stories not all that long ago in both Great Britain and Italy.
In Great Britain, the offending daughter dared “fall in love” with someone deemed not worthy by her family. In Italy, the slain girl was working in a bar and dressing “untraditionally”.
The girl’s brother is mentioned in the Toronto story.
Brothers (other male relatives, uncles) “helping out” in the slaying is not uncommon. A lot of this stuff going on in Muslim countries (e.g., Pakistan) is kept beneath the radar.
A girl countering her domineering male parent is seen by him as humiliation and a challenge to his authority.
It can be about that as much as it could be about modesty, religion, tradition or covering.
Sometimes (a case in Saudi Arabia) the mother reportedly assisted male relatives in the killing of her own daughter.
December 12th, 2007 at 11:39 am
A few years back in Canada, a move was afoot in the to have Shari’a law replace Canadian civil law for arbitration of “family law matters” within the Muslim community.
Some Canadians thought this a good idea, one way to relieve the “clogged court system” of some of its caseload.
Having control over law in the area of “marriage and family” is a particular sticking point for diehard Muslims, the world over. In Iraq, in the months following “liberation” from Saddam, those kinds of debates were hot and heavy points of discord under the “new” Iraqi Constitution that was written.
The implicit assumption being that whatever form of “law” they are subject to in whatever (usually “western”) country they live in is not the immutable law of Allah (SWT) as elaborated by human beings in the 14 centuries since Mohammed.
Thus, compared with Shari’a, equal rights and all that jazz of western civil law could not possibly be “correct” law.
But the real truth is, Mullah power is, to a large extent, power over marriage and family relationships.
And Islam’s religious hierarchy doesn’t look particularly inclined to abandon those areas of “power”.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
This is what the multicultis want to bring to a neighborhood near you.
Remember folk, there’s no right and no wrong and all cultures and cultural practices are equally valid, … except those of The West which are evil and should be obliterated.
Oh, and anyone sticking up for those icky evil Western Ideals is a nazi, racist, homophobe and belongs to the KKK.
We know this to be true because our Thought Bosses tell us so.
December 12th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
The culture has been emasculated and is unable to find any ground to stand upon to justify self-defense. There was a time when this kind of barbarity would have brought out the righteous indignation of the population and would never have been countenanced under any circumstances.
Ideas have consequences. The extent of the damage done by PC thought control, multiculturalism and all the rest of the social engineering Transnationalists is more frightening than anything the enemy can throw at us. Indeed, these ideas are what made the enemy possible.
December 14th, 2007 at 8:54 am
Indeed, these ideas are what made the enemy possible.
I often think that as well, saltydog.
That the rot from within is more alarming than the rot from without.