That’s the title blogger Grace has given to her post at Vlad Tepes blog on a legal case involving a threat of honor killing in Canada. I’m going to add this important blog to our blogroll.
This is what Grace says regarding the article in the Ottawa Citizen about jailed cab driver,Yusef Al Mezel, an Iraqi refugee, who threatened his daughter and remains a political big shot in a Canadian cabbie union.
Maybe I need to get out more, but I don’t know any average father who has ever threatened his daughter with violence and murder. I also don’t know any average father who would toss his daughter down a flight of stairs, beat her, taunt her with vile language, follow her, send her menacing letters or threaten that male members of his extended family carry out an honour murder against her. I also don’t know any average father who would consider his daughter a shame because she chooses to exercise free choice over her own life.
Then Grace and I had the same reaction to the Ottawa Citizen report.
But perhaps the most important aspect of this story and the one we should pay closest attention to and understand fully, comes from Al-Mezel’s own parole officers assessment; that his interest and hard work in the Muslim community lies not in the religious, but in the political. It is this doctrinal, political system called Islam that his daughter has had a complete understanding of and from which, she has fled.
Use our search function to read about the many cases of honor killings by Muslim immigrants we have reported. Most recently I reported on a USA Today story about how the evil practice is on the rise in the US, here. I had remarked how surprised I was that a major mainstream publication would even print such a story and sure enough I gather from Jihad Watch, here, that USA Today is under attack by Islamists and Leftists for writing about it.
I continue to be perplexed about why Union types (with a far left political orientation) would defend brutality against women. I always thought the far left defended women’s rights! See our recent discussion on that topic here.