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Or, more accurately, because she wouldn't continue to wear her hijab.
At least, that's how the situation looks right now.
Aqsa Parvez, 16-years-old, was this week choked to death by her father in the Greater Toronto area of Canada. From this source:
Remember the face of Aqsa Parvez:
[Hat-tip to Nanc, who sent me this link from Breitbart. The article is receiving lots of comments]
- Aqsa Parvez’s Father And Brother Convicted Of “honor Killing”
(sticky, scroll for newer posts) National Post h/t Dr Bulldog Megan O’Toole , National Post · Wednesday, Jun. 16, 2010 BRAMPTON, ONT. -- A “twisted, chilling and repugnant mindset” spurred the father and brother of Aqsa Parvez to strangle the...
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- Steyn On Why Pamela Geller's Defense Of Aqsa Parvez Is Justified And Worthwhile
From Jihad Watch: For reasons best known to himself, The National Post's Chris Selley chose to pick a fight with the few people who want to ensure that Aqsa Parvez's short life is memorialized by something more than the plot number of an unmarked...
- Aqsa Parvez' Family Has Demonstrated That They Approve Of Her Murder
Her father admitted to police that he murdered her: Over the fall of 2007, Aqsa Parvez shuttled between friends’ houses and youth shelters. She was afraid to go home. Her father, Muhammad, was enraged because she refused to obey his rules. He swore...
- A Culturally Different Parenting Technique
Globe and Mail:A 16-year-old woman was clinging to life in hospital last night after police in Mississauga received a call from a man claiming he had killed his daughter.More:Students at nearby Applewood Heights Secondary School in Mississauga identified...
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Dead Because Of Her Hijab
Or, more accurately, because she wouldn't continue to wear her hijab.At least, that's how the situation looks right now.
Aqsa Parvez, 16-years-old, was this week choked to death by her father in the Greater Toronto area of Canada. From this source:
The 16-year-old Mississauga girl who was allegedly strangled by her father in a dispute over her refusal to wear the hijab has died.According to this source,
Aqsa Parvez, a Grade 11 student at Applewood Heights, succumbed to her injuries late last night, Peel Regional Police said today.
The girl’s 57-year-old father, Muhammad Parvez, has been charged with muder. Aqsa’s 26-year-old brother, Waqas Parvez, has been charged with obstructing police.
Friends believe Aqsa...was the victim of a dispute over the teenager's desire to be more western.
“She wanted to live her life the way she wanted to, not the way her parents wanted her to,” classmate Krista Garbhet told the Post this morning.
“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.”
Friends of the teenager...said she had been threatened by her strictly religious family before.Police have cautioned not to jump to conclusions about the case. But it doesn't take much of a leap to figure out the father's motive. Aqsa was assimilating, as the children of immigrants will do, and her father wasn't about to have that happen.
“She got threatened by her father and her brother,” said Dominiquia Holmes-Thompson, who had known Aqsa since they both started high school together. “He said that if she leaves, he would kill her.”
Ebonie Mitchell, 16, another 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. And I guess her dad had a problem with that.”
Ebonie said her friend had left home once before, in September, for about two weeks. She returned home, but the fights with her family over what she wore just got worse.
Dominiquia, 16, said her friend had been arguing with her father for more than a year over the restrictions he imposed on her, including demanding that she wear the hijab at all times. “She wanted to go out with her friends, hang out and just be like a normal person,” she said. “But he was always trying to control her ... he wouldn’t let her go out or do anything.”
The stricken girl’s friends said the fights with her father got so bad that she had left the family home to live with friends about a week ago. “She was going back, but just to get her stuff,” said friend Krista Garbutt. “She was scared to go home, but she had to get her clothes and stuff.”
Neighbours said as many as 11 people lived in the home, which was sealed off by crime scene tape and surrounded by police cars yesterday, all members of an extended Pakistani family. Const. Valade confirmed that there were other people in the home when the teenager was attacked.
“I didn’t really know any of them,” said one woman, who would not give her name. “There were a lot of them living in that house, always coming and going. They didn’t talk to me, maybe just to say hello once in a while. That’s all.”
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.
Remember the face of Aqsa Parvez:
[Hat-tip to Nanc, who sent me this link from Breitbart. The article is receiving lots of comments]
- Aqsa Parvez’s Father And Brother Convicted Of “honor Killing”
(sticky, scroll for newer posts) National Post h/t Dr Bulldog Megan O’Toole , National Post · Wednesday, Jun. 16, 2010 BRAMPTON, ONT. -- A “twisted, chilling and repugnant mindset” spurred the father and brother of Aqsa Parvez to strangle the...
- My Mother Hired A Hitman To Kill Me
From the Daily Mail: The text message forwarded to me from my younger sister Saira was concise and chilling: 'Mum's sent a hit man to kill you,' it read. 'Be careful.' ... I'd been in hiding for several weeks when I received the...
- Steyn On Why Pamela Geller's Defense Of Aqsa Parvez Is Justified And Worthwhile
From Jihad Watch: For reasons best known to himself, The National Post's Chris Selley chose to pick a fight with the few people who want to ensure that Aqsa Parvez's short life is memorialized by something more than the plot number of an unmarked...
- Aqsa Parvez' Family Has Demonstrated That They Approve Of Her Murder
Her father admitted to police that he murdered her: Over the fall of 2007, Aqsa Parvez shuttled between friends’ houses and youth shelters. She was afraid to go home. Her father, Muhammad, was enraged because she refused to obey his rules. He swore...
- A Culturally Different Parenting Technique
Globe and Mail:A 16-year-old woman was clinging to life in hospital last night after police in Mississauga received a call from a man claiming he had killed his daughter.More:Students at nearby Applewood Heights Secondary School in Mississauga identified...