Category Archives: Honour Killings

Man accused of killing 3 daughters told police his kids were liars, jury hears

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Yahoo.com

KINGSTON, Ont. – A man accused of killing his three daughters and one of his two wives told a police interrogator that he dearly loved his dead children, but they were liars, court heard Wednesday.

Mohammad Shafia, 58, is on trial — along with his wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41, and son Hamed, 20 — charged with four counts each of first-degree murder. They have each pleaded not guilty to killing three teenage Shafia sisters and Shafia’s other wife in a polygamous marriage.

The jury in Kingston, Ont., watched video Wednesday of the police interrogation of Shafia — conducted in Farsi and translated into English — the day after he, his wife and his son were arrested in July 2009. Continue Reading →

Mr. Shafia called his daughters whores and exhorted the devil to “shit on their graves.”

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From The National Post:

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Christie Blatchford: Numbers didn’t add up for ‘honour killing’ accused

Lars Hagberg for Postmedia News

Lars Hagberg for Postmedia News

Mohammad Shafia is charged with first degree murder

  Oct 25, 2011 – 7:54 PM ET | Last Updated: Oct 26, 2011 10:17 AM ET

KINGSTON, Ont. — Just after half his family was either allegedly murdered or at the least tragically dead in a bizarre accident, Mohammad Shafia was still looking for a deal.

“He was asking could he get a discount,” said Robert Miller, the manager of the Kingston East Motel where some of the Shafia clan – those who weren’t dead, that is — were then staying.

“’Can’t you give me a better price?’” Mr. Miller remembered him saying, and his own reply: “No.”

 

 

Mr. Miller was testifying Tuesday at the first-degree murder trial of the 58-year-old Mr. Shafia, his second wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41, and their 21-year-old son Hamed. All are pleading not guilty. Continue Reading →

Christie Blatchford: ‘I would do it again’; court hears horror of alleged honour killing

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The National Post:

Court Exhibit

Court Exhibit

Sahar Shafia, 15, who was found dead with 3 others, Zainab Shafia, 17, Geeti Shafia, 13, and Rona Amir Mohammad, 53, Their bodies were found on the morning of June 30, 2009, in a Nissan Sentra submerged in the Kingston Mills locks, on the edge of the town of Kingston

  Oct 20, 2011 – 7:37 PM ET | Last Updated: Oct 21, 2011 10:38 AM ET

KINGSTON, Ont. — It’s the Canadian Maple Leaf that flies high over the picturesque locks at Kingston Mills near this historic city, but on the night of June 30, 2009, it might just as well have been the black-red-and-green flag of Afghanistan, with its sacred line proclaiming the greatness of Allah.

What happened at the locks that night, Crown prosecutors alleged in Ontario Superior Court Thursday, was a so-called “honour killing,” the culmination of a violent misogynist Afghan culture that had been transplanted holus-bolus years earlier into the heart of central Canada.

Court Exibit

Geeti Shafia, 13

“May the devil s— on their graves,” Mohammad Shafia told his second wife, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 20 days after the bodies of the couple’s three teenage daughters and Mr. Shafia’s first wife were recovered from a car in the water at the locks.

Found dead by drowning in a black Nissan Mr. Shafia had bought just eight days earlier – the suggestion implicit that he got it for that very purpose — were Rona Amir Mohammad, the barren wife who had been presented to the children and outsiders both as an “auntie,” and rebellious daughters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and 13-year-old Geeti.

Charged with four counts each of first-degree murder are Mr. Shafia, Ms. Yahya and their oldest son Hamid, who was 18 at the time. All are pleading not guilty. Continue Reading →

‘Husband’ arrested on suspicion of murdering wife, 20, and toddler son following house fire

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From The Daily Mail

  • Two men held on suspicion of murder
  • It is believed the arrested men knew the victims

By Mail On Sunday Reporter

Last updated at 2:26 PM on 11th September 2011

A young mum and her 15-month-old son died when a fire ripped through a a house in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Melissa Crook, 20, and her 15-month-old son Noah were killed in the suspected arson attack on her parents’ home, in Chatham, Kent.

Detectives have arrested two men on suspicion of murder in Coventry, one of whom is believed to be 23-year-old Danai Muhammadi, Ms Crook’s estranged husband. A 37-year-old man was also arrested.

Arson: Melissa Crook and Danai Muhammadi on their wedding day. Muhammadi is believed to have been arrested on suspicion of murder.Arson: Melissa Crook and Danai Muhammadi on their wedding day. Muhammadi is believed to have been arrested on suspicion of murder.

Ms Crook’s father Mark, 49, suffered from serious burns and is fighting for his life following the suspected arson attack.

His son Bohdan, 21, broke both his legs as he was forced to leap from a first floor window to escape the inferno. Melissa’s mum Amanda was also being treated in hospital for burns.

Firefighters at the scene of the house fire in Chatham, Kent where a woman and an infant boy have died following a suspected arson attack.Firefighters outside the house in Chatham, Kent, where the fire took hold in the early hours of Saturday Continue Reading →

three girls, their daughter, a landlord, their turk.

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Here is a confusing story from the daily mail. best I can make out is a Turk killed two women with a knife and attempted to kill a third and snatched a child. But I could easily be way wrong. No idea what this story is actually saying. Interpretations or clarification most welcome in the comments.

 

Youth to be charged over murder of two Irish women

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 From The Irish Times:

The bodies of two Northern Irish women are taken to a morgue by a funerary vehicle yesterday as Turkish paramilitary police block a road near Izmir, western Turkey. Photograph: ReutersThe bodies of two Northern Irish women are taken to a morgue by a funerary vehicle yesterday as Turkish paramilitary police block a road near Izmir, western Turkey. Photograph: Reuters

CONOR LALLY and GERRY MORIARTY

A Turkish youth is expected to be formally charged with the double murder of two Irish women in western Turkey on Thursday night.

Marion Graham and Kathy Dinsmore were found stabbed to death in a wooded area off a road near the port city of Izmir.

The dead women were both 54 years old and from the Newry area of Co Down. Both were travelling on Irish passports.

The killings followed Ms Graham’s attempts to prevent her daughter Shannon from marrying a 17-year-old youth she had met in the country.

The youth was detained by police yesterday, and is the only suspect for the double murder. His father and a local taxi driver were also helping police with their inquiries.

The suspect yesterday appeared at a preliminary hearing in Turkey and charges are expected to follow. A spokeswoman for Department of Foreign Affairs said today no plans have yet been made as to when the bodies of the two women will be brought home. Continue Reading →

Are US police forces covering up honour killings for fear of Muslim reprisals?

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Jihad watch has this story from Tampa

 

We held a rally for justice for Fatimah Abdallah last June. Now at last the truth is coming out. This is justice in America in 2011: a police department cowers in fear of violence from Muslims if it tells the truth about an Islamic honor killing. Ask yourself if all the “Islamophobia” mongers care even the slightest bit about justice for Fatimah Abdallah.

Here is an extraordinary announcement from David Caton of the Florida Family Association:

Tampa Police CSI tech admits “fear of Muslim reprisal” in Palestinian woman’s death. Florida Family Association asks Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate.

Please click over to Jihad Watch for this story