Category Archives: Honour Killings

Danon: Ethiopian murders becoming ‘epidemic’

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From The J-Post:

Knesset study indicates that 30% of domestic crimes are committed by Ethiopian immigrants.

MK Danny DanonBy Courtesy: Knesset

Calling the murder of Ethiopian women by their husbands an epidemic that must be stopped immediately, the chairman of the Knesset Committee for Aliya, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs said Wednesday society must not wait idly for the “next shocking murder” to take place.

MK Danny Danon (Likud), who was speaking at special hearing following the murder- suicide last week’s of Lawaka and Yeshi Amara in Rishon Lezion, received data from the Knesset’s Research and Information Department showing that 30 percent of such domestic crimes occur within the Ethiopian immigrant community.

“We should not be accepting this statistic,” stated Danon, highlighting that there seems to be failure by the authorities in reaching and treating immigrant families that are struggling as they start their new lives in Israel.

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Courthouse evacuated at Shafia murder trial due to bomb threat

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Yahoo.com

10:30 AM EST jan 26 2012 h/t Bear

KINGSTON, Ont. – Closing arguments in the Shafia family murder trial have been put on hold after the courthouse in Kingston, Ont., was evacuated this morning due to a bomb threat.

Court will be adjourned until at least 1 p.m. ET.

While police would only say there was a ”security concern,” a source told The Canadian Press the reason for the evacuation was a bomb threat.

Before the proceedings resumed this morning, the lead detective in the case told everyone in the courthouse to leave the building and there is an increased police presence — including a canine unit — in the area.

Mohammad Shafia, 58, his wife Tooba Yahya, 42, and their son Hamed, 21, have each pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder.

They’re accused of killing teenage Shafia daughters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, as well as Shafia’s first wife in his polygamous marriage.

The Crown is slated to continue closing submissions today, after the jury heard from the three defence lawyers Tuesday and Wednesday.

Taqyyia, Kitman, softening the infidel on SUN TV

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There was a fascinating interview today on SUN TV. A Kingston Ontario imam came on to explain how there is no Islamic precepts or texts to justify honor killing or violence in Islam or for Islamic reasons. In the video below, you will find the complete interview, but I added in chapter and verse from many authoritative Islamic texts, even though the simple fact that in nearly (but not completely) all cases, when an ‘honor killing’ takes place it is by Muslims and the reasons given are defense of the faith of Islam or, reasons of family honor where Islamic law is the justification for the murder.

I also added in an interview with a Montreal Imam, who, being interviewed by a very Islamo-philic Radio-Canada, still shocked the apologists for sharia by admitting that stoning women and cutting hands was an immutable part of Islam and that ‘God’s laws’ are for peace justice and clarity. (Of course, in the Islamic sense of those words, he is correct.)

Remember, he was trying to dumb down the horrors of sharia law, yet still utterly contradicts the imam interviewed today on Sun TV.

It is also worth noting, that this imam made a challenge in the National post asking anyone to submit any Koranic proof of sanctioning honor killings etc. When Point De Bascule, (tipping point) the excellent and thorough Quebec based website, sent in piles of it which is referenced in this video, the National Post chose not to publish it, or indeed, anyones refutation of this Quebec born imam’s absurd and demonstrably false claims.

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For the Tipping Point website please click here:

Crown lays out in most detail to date, theory of critical night in Shafia deaths

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The Canadian PressBy Allison Jones, The Canadian Press

KINGSTON, Ont. – Three teenage sisters and their father’s first wife were already dead when the car their bodies were in plunged into a canal, a prosecutor suggested in court Friday in the clearest indication yet of the Crown’s theory in an alleged case of four so-called honour killings.

The plan went awry when the Shafia family’s Nissan got hung up on the concrete edge of the canal, with four bodies inside, so they had to use the family’s Lexus SUV to nudge it into the water, breaking the headlight and scattering pieces on the ground, Crown attorney Gerard Laarhuis said in court.

Those headlight pieces were one of the factors that first caused police to suspect the deaths were not an accident, court has heard.

Tooba Yahya, 42, her husband Mohammad Shafia, 58, and their son Hamed, 21, have each pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder. They’re accused of killing sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, along with Rona Amir Mohammad, 52, Shafia’s first wife in a polygamous marriage, over family honour. Continue Reading →

Dad killed daughter in brutal axe murder

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The Local

A Swiss prosecutor has described as a “veritable slaughter” the vicious axe murder of a 16-year-old girl by her 53-year-old Pakistani father, who believed his daughter had tarnished her family’s honour.

 

The charge sheet presented by prosecutor Ulrich Krättli suggests he will call for the accused to be given life in prison, the maximum sentence under Swiss law, when the high-profile case goes to trial on March 14th.

On May 10th 2010, 16-year-old Swera was picked up at a Zurich police station by both her parents. She had been held there by police after she was arrested for a minor theft.

Once back at their apartment in Höngg, on the outskirts of the city, a heated argument broke out between father and daughter, newspaper Tages Anzeiger reports.

The girl said she wanted to leave home permanently and started to pack her things. She then went down to the basement of the building to get a pair of shoes. While she was gone, her father allegedly retrieved an axe from the balcony and hid it in the bedroom he shared with his wife.

Once she was back in the apartment, the girl went into her parents’ bedroom to pick up some of her belongings. When she bent down to get some things from the wardrobe, her father hit her with the axe on the back of the head, the prosecutor says. The man struck his daughter 19 times with the axe: 12 times with the blade and seven with the blunt end. Continue Reading →

Shafia family adds insult to injury to Canada with grotesque lie about the police

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This is surreal in its magnitude and transparency. I guess the only good thing one can say about the Shafia family is that they seem to be crappy liars although not un-practiced ones perhaps.

The fact that they claim that a Canadian police department would torture their son if they didn’t falsely confess to a murder is a horrific sort of lie, because it means that we have police forces that act likes ones in Islamic nations. And we most certainly do not.

Add to that, the easily caught lie that they never saw the pictures till after the murders when there is video of the father showing off the photo album before they happened.

I must admit, the CBC did a great clip on this. I take back 10% of the nasty things I have said about them.

Muslim mother breaks down in court as she is quizzed over ‘honour killings’ of her three children and husband’s first wife

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The Daily Mail:

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 10:34 AM on 11th January 2012

A mother accused of murdering three of her daughters and her husband’s first wife in an honour killing broke down in tears while testifying today in an Ontario court.

Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41, is accused of conspiring with her husband, Mohammad Shafia, 58, and their eldest son, Hamed, 21, of running one of their family cars into a canal with their four relatives inside.

Prosecutors say that they did so in order to protect their family’s honour because the four women were acting disobediently by having boyfriends, wearing skimpy clothes, and not listening to their strict Muslim father.

Not too upset: Tooba Mohammad Yahya is charged with taking part in the murder of three of her daughters and her husband's other wife who lived with their family in a polygamous relationship Not too upset: Tooba Mohammad Yahya is charged with taking part in the murder of three of her daughters and her husband’s other wife who lived with their family in a polygamous relationship

Shafia mass murder trial resumes.

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It seems the defense is multiculturalism itself. The whole thing can be dismissed cause of misunderstandings in culture, religion, and language. I guess Canadians should just forget their entire legal history and belief in the value of human rights and the silly notion that people have a right to not be murdered, doubly so by their own parents.

Horrors of sexual abuse in conflict-stricken FATA

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The horror of some things area beyond any title. I had to do some research before I posted this. Initially, it was just too ‘out there’ to be true. Thank you to ‘BB’ for hunting down links and sources, most of which were a sort of link-circle and substantiated nothing. This one, the Pakistan Tribune, is, as far as I know, a decent source. I would still like to see a U.N. link to this story and the other ones in the report on abuse of women in these parts of Afghanistan where the Taliban, and therefore one might reason, the most religious of Muslims are in control.

From The Pakistan Tribune.

” A security officer forced me to have sex in exchange for cooking oil and pulses,” 22-year-old Pashmeena.

PESHAWAR: Kashmala Bibi* says her cousin’s breasts were cut into pieces when five militants walked into their house and saw the woman breastfeeding her child. One of the insurgents then asked the other women around to eat the pieces.

This is one of the many tales of horror recorded in a report titled “Impact of crisis on women and girls in Fata”.

The report, released by human rights organisation “Khwendo Kor” (Sisters’ Home in Pashto) with financial support from UN-women, is based on case studies of women from the tribal belt living in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s IDP camps.

Women in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) are more susceptible to violence and abuse in a post-conflict scenario, whether or not they are part of the conflict, it says.

Another stark revelation made in the report is that women in camps were forced to have sexual intercourse in exchange for food and non-food items. Girls and widows were at greater risk.

The surveys from Nahqai and Jalozai camps further show that women were uncomfortable going to restrooms because there was little privacy as men constantly lurked around.

“A security officer forced me to have sex in exchange for cooking oil and pulses when I was collecting food at the main entrance of the camp,” a 22-year-old woman Nighat* from the Jalozai Camp is quoted as telling the discussion group.

The report claims that there was an increase in honour killings in which women were first raped and since the rape was considered a disgrace to the family, they were later murdered.

Forced marriages, honour killings, exchange of women between tribes and marriages with first cousins resulting in disabilities of offspring have made the women in the tribal areas increasingly dependent. The role of women in society has decreased from 39% to 19%.

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There is more at:

Jihad Watch:

BB has come through again. I was looking at this story for a while before posting it. It was very difficult to find sources I was familiar with, and an actual U.N. link was nowhere.

BB left the links for me this morning:

1. UNIFEM.ORG

2. UN PDF:

Because all witnesses were promised anonymity verification is impossible. But at least the UN connection is verified.

 

 

The honor killing link-arama

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There are too many horrors to post all separately today. At some point one has to attend to the minor inconveniences of a corporeal existence. So here are a few related links in one post.

Jihad Watch: Even after death the punishment of the ‘honor’ killed continues.

Muslim beats Englishman to death, has to cook pancakes for the homeless for a weekend. Ok slight exaggeration but just slight. Hard to make out what actually happened in this article but one thing is for sure. A very very light sentence for a Muslim who fatally beat a British man who appears to have been ethnically cleansed from his neighborhood by Muslims if I at all am reading that right.

Death to women in Pakistan continues to rise dramatically due to honor killings.

“Nightmare year” for women’s rights in Turkey, survey

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ANSAMED.IT

(ANSAmed) – ISTANBUL, DECEMBER 29 – In the wake of a report that 160 women were murdered in Turkey in 2011 by male partners or relatives, some are calling for women at risk to be given free guns and lessons in how to use them. The new statistics, released by the group “We Will Stop the Murders of Women”, paint a dire portrait of the state of women’s rights in Turkey, as the Istanbul newspaper Today’s Zaman writes. The report reveals that one in two of the 160 women murdered were killed “because they wanted to make an independent decision concerning their own lives”. Of these, 41% wanted to divorce or separate from their husband or partner, 32% were murdered due to jealously on the part of their husband and 16% were killed because they rejected a man’s advances. Only 23% of the women who applied to the state for protection from domestic violence this year received such assistance, the report said. Such stark statistics prompted Hayrettin Bulan, chairman of Sefkat-Der, a non-governmental group working for the protection of women, to suggest that “a last-resort solution to the problem may be to issue guns to women facing violence”. Bulan added that his organization is already in talks with shooting ranges to arrange lessons for women at risk next year. But Hulya Gulgahar, a prominent Turkish women’s rights lawyer, disagreed. “To arm women with guns will create a whole different set of problems,” she said. (ANSAmed).