-- "Somalia refugee Mohamedamin Abdirisek Ibrahim, 22, has been charged with murder for killing his seven-months pregnant Swedish girlfriend rather than face the shame of introducing her to his strict Muslim family." --That'd never happen in Canad... wait a minute...
The controversial so-called “marry-your-rapist” bill, which lawmakers are planning to introduce to Turkish parliament at the end of January, has sparked fury among women’s rights campaigners in the country.There is hope on the horizon...
Turkey’s opposition has won a high-stakes rerun of the Istanbul mayoral election, a serious blow to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and a landmark victory in a country where many feared democracy was failing.
"So... a man walks into a bar with a knife, a severed head and a block of plastic explosive..."
Let's, just for the moment, put aside the fact that Ms Jeantel has already admitted committing perjury...A teenage friend of Trayvon Martin was forced to admit today in the George Zimmerman murder trial that she did not write a letter that was sent to Martin's mother describing what she allegedly heard on a phone call with Martin moments before he was shot.So, in addition to lying under oath, this compassionate, intellectual charmer also got someone to forge a letter in her name that was sent to Trayvons mother. What's next... a message from Trayvon from the other side?
Jeantel, 19, was unable to read any of the letter save for her name.
She is seen as a critical witness to the prosecution because she is the only person able to say that Martin claimed that he noticed a strange man following him and that he was scared. Jeantel said Martin described the stranger as a "creepy ass cracker."The fact that the prosecution was willing to put this person on the witness stand is a measure of how desperate they are.
**********The witness also used the “N” word three times, testifying it was the word Martin used to describe Zimmerman, who’d been following him.(via ffof)
"The president's comments signaled that he firmly embraces intelligence techniques he once viewed with skepticism."Don't you dare imagine that the Celebrity-in-Chief is a liar... he's just more highly-evolved than the rest of us...
Mr. Obama suggested that his own thinking on the subject had EVOLVED since his days as a presidential candidate in 2008, when he criticized various steps taken by the George W. Bush administration to prevent terrorist attacks.Good grief.
The five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was authorized by Congress in 2007 to monitor privacy and civil liberties throughout the U.S. government. But after lengthy delays by President Obama in nominating members -- and disputes over its membership -- the panel only officially came into existence last week when Medine was sworn in.Uh-huh.
It has no website, has yet to move into its office in downtown Washington and has a staff of only two members assigned from other agencies, Medine said.
The lawyers said their clients believe their accounts of Benghazi were spurned by the Accountability Review board, the official investigative body convened by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to review the terrorist attacks, and that the two employees have faced threats and intimidation from as-yet-unnamed superiors.Benghazi, Benghazi... that sounds so familiar.
“There were people who were material witnesses, who wanted to talk to the Accountability Review board, and they were not allowed to talk to them."
Gregory N. Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya at the time of the Benghazi terrorist attacks, told the committee that he and his colleagues on the ground in Libya that night knew instantly that Benghazi was a terrorist attack, and that he was astonished that no one drafting the administration's talking points consulted with him before finalizing them, or before U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice delivered them on the Sunday talk shows of Sept. 16.Looks like Mrs Bubba has effectively torched her 2016 presidential run.
Hamed was urging them to make a U-turn so they could return to the motel, when all of a sudden the car went into the water, he said. So he sounded the horn of the Lexus, then got a rope.Well, you certainly can't ask for a more heroic effort than that.
"I put the rope a few times in the water ... nothing happened," Hamed said. "I moved it a little bit to see if they take it."
After receiving no response to the jiggling rope, Hamed got in his car and left, driving through the night to Montreal, about three hours away.I can only hope the systemically racist Canadian justice system is getting poor Hamed counselling for his traumatic experience here.
He didn't call police or tell his parents because he thought he would get in trouble for allowing Zainab to drive.
Well, if there's one thing we know about the Liberal Party... it's that they're all about the ladies.A woman charged with attempting to murder her 19-year-old daughter has been released under conditions. The 38-year-old was accused by police in June of a so-called honour crime when her daughter arrived home late one night.Three cheers for uber-enlightened Canuckistan... where your first whack at homicide gets treated like vandalism.
The Afghan-born Kaleki is charged with attempted murder, assault with a weapon and aggravated assault.
Justice Sal LoVecchio gave Magomadova a suspended sentence Thursday with three years of probation, for killing Aminat, 14, on Feb. 26, 2007.Oh Canada.
Never mind sorry... it sounds like this guy wants to shout it from the rooftops...“The defendant repeatedly told the police during the same videotaped interview that under these circumstances he had done the right thing by killing the deceased.”But heck, never mind all that... thank goodness ol' Kamikar has his lawyer to straighten all of this out...
He was so convinced he had every right to kill Amandeep he wanted police to tell the media it was justified because of “the imminent disgrace to his family name.”
“He did something he deeply regrets,” said his lawyer, Maurice Mirosolin.Way to audible, Peyton.
But asked if his client now understands there’s no place here for honour killing, Mirosolin could only say, “I’d rather not comment.”
Lawyer Jean-Claude Dubé tells CJAD News he hasn't spoken to his client yet but prison authorities tell him 18-year-old Hamed Shafia was assaulted by other inmates while they were in the outdoor courtyard in the detention center in Napanee, Ontario.It's not all bad news though, especially for fanatic adherents of Sharia Law. I hear they have "arranged marriages" in prison too.
The grisly discovery of the bodies of four former Dubai women at the bottom of a freshwater boating canal in Canada has led to the arrest of a former Dubai businessman, his wife and their son.It's a little different treatment that the Shafi family initially received in the Canadian papers...
According to media reports, Mohammad Shafi, his wife, and his 18-year-old son were arrested in Montreal where they have lived after moving from Dubai.
A native of Kabul, Afhganistan, Shafi was taken into custody in connection to the unexplained deaths of his three daughters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17 and Geeti, 13 and a fourth relative Rona Amir Mohammed, all of whom lived in Dubai for 15 years before immigrating to Canada two years ago.
"In a tearful interview at his home shortly after the car was found, Shafee said he couldn't shake the feeling that the crash may have been the result of Zainab taking the family car without permission."Unsurprisingly, the Toronto Star, despite a slew of red flags, was quick to take sides...
They just snapped up the father's story and ran with it...Shafi, who speaks limited English, said he has no idea who's responsible for what he called a "big mistake take car."A mistake... or was it a magic flying car, a la Harry Potter?
"Mistake Zainab? Mistake Sahab?"
The mother's aunt, Zarmina Fazel, told the Star, "It would go around fences, I don't know. I'm in shock."Fresh, and decidedly less uncritical details are just now starting to emerge...
She went on, "Midnight, practice driving by the water is not normal, no? I cannot understand."
The Kingston Whig Standard reported that Kingston police had received an e-mail from Diba Masoomi, a woman living in Niort, France who claims to be the older woman's sister.**********
In the e-mail, sent two weeks ago, she wrote: "We are convinced that this is a crime of honour."
Insp. Brian Begbie said investigators have "cause to believe" the older woman found in the car, Rona Amir Mohammed, was Mohammad Shafia's first wife.*
Minutes earlier, the jury returned a verdict of guilty on two counts of first-degree murder against 23-year-old Sadiqi, who gunned down his 20-year-old sister, Khatera, and her fiancé, Feroz Mangal, 23, in the early hours of Sept. 19, 2006 while the couple was sitting in her parked car.**********
Prosecutor Mark Moors said Sadiqi was motivated by a “perverted notion of honour and respect … for the sole purpose of restoring the family’s reputation and respect in the Afghan community.”
“Your crimes have shocked and bewildered the people of 'almost every community' in the nation’s capital,” said Ontario Superior Court Justice Douglas Rutherford.That, of course, prompts the logical follow-up...
"Only 'almost' every community?"That's the $64,000 question isn't it?
"Does this imply that somewhere out there exists a community that more or less approves of this barbaric murder?"
Traversy and Geller aren't giving up. They have $4,000 collected and are determined to make sure it somehow goes to mark and celebrate the life of Aqsa Parvez. "Maybe we will do something for her in Israel," Geller said.
"Although, it would be a shame there is not some sort of memorial for this girl in Canada, the country in which she lived."
And the country where she was allegedly murdered for wanting to be Canadian.RELATED: Islamic community rallies 'round... ...wait a freakin' minute...
"Mohammad, buddy, here's what you and your friends seem to be missing... this is not some primitive village in the tribal hinterlands of Pakistan." "This is Canada. We don't even execute people like Clifford Olsen, or Paul Bernardo... never mind defiant teenage girls."FROM THE COMMENTS:
"Write to the president of the University of Guelph to protest this decision by the Arboretum of the Univ. of Guelph."Better yet... you could email Chancellor Pamela Wallin.
OH YOU'RE GONNA LOVE THIS:
Cultural relativism is the view that all beliefs, customs, and ethics are relative to the individual within his own social context.
In other words, “right” and “wrong” are culture-specific; what is considered moral in one society may be considered immoral in another, and, since no universal standard of morality exists, no one has the right to judge another society’s customs.Yeah, yeah Dawg, I know... I'm a "dirty, filthy racist".
The jury sat horrified watching the brief video. The sight of the apparent murder was appalling enough. But the pictures told another story that left the panel grimacing in disgust. The reason? The video seems to show four other people also pulling out guns before and after the shooting.
In addition, the woman who held the proceeds from the night had her purse stolen in the melee and the promoter is caught on tape flying into a rage and smashing all the stereo equipment after his money was taken.LAST WORD: Culture wars... closer to home
"You can't abandon a patient whose values aren't the same as yours," doctors are repeatedly told.
And when the values of doctors and their patients are so different, Canada faces yet another multicultural test.*
Before 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez even stepped inside her family's Mississauga home last December, Peel Regional Police now believe, there was a plan to kill her. And yesterday they went before the court to upgrade the original second-degree murder charge against her father to first-degree.A little background.
But instead of recommending special programs tailored for children of various high-risk groups – Portuguese children, for example, or those from Somalia or Afghanistan – the staff suggests helping all teachers be more sensitive to the challenges diversity can bring.
"There are ways of looking at marital disputes, for example, which provide an alternative to the divorce courts as we understand them." "In some cultural and religious settings they would seem more appropriate."A CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE RESOLUTION?
Meanwhile, the mullahs and Islamists are busy dismissing the idea that Aqsa's alleged murder had anything to do with religion. They are circulating rumours on-line that she had a black boyfriend, that she was sexually promiscuous, that she was a drug pusher.I had no idea that this sort of thing had been going on. As a Muslim herself, the author of this article is obviously closer to the goings on within the community.
The friends and classmates of Aqsa, who aren't concerned with political correctness, have said without hesitation that Aqsa was abused and threatened at home because of the religious fanaticism of her family.FROM THE COMMENTS:
They have said she was killed because she wanted to be herself.
"In fact not one single Muslim I know agrees with what he did and we all pray that God bless this little girls soul and may God keep her in his mercy and bring her the justice she deserves after suffering through what was done to her."LAST WORD: Michael Coren has his say
Only a bigot would argue that every Muslim was violent or opposed to Western freedom. But only a coward or a liar would argue that there was not a profound and deeply worrying link between conservative Islam and myriad acts of terror, intolerance and hysterical anger.And what... pray tell... is the deal with Turkey?
It is not I who say this but the countless Muslims who take to the streets at the drop of a cartoon to scream for blood and war; or the Muslims who preach jihad in North America and Europe, where they enjoy open societies founded on Christian enlightenment.
They may represent a minority, but the harm they do is incalculable. This dysfunctional venom does not come from Christian, Jew, Hindu or Buddhist and fatuous relativism will only blind the foolish.
It is time for free discussion in this free country, whether it offends or not.
"The strangulation death of Ms. Parvez was the result of domestic violence, a problem that cuts across Canadian society and is blind to color or creed."Maybe times are changing... but I remember my sisters being grounded, not strangled... for this sort of thing.
We now cross live to the set of CSI Toronto, where filming is underway: * Sgt. Warren Bollard: (staring in bewilderment at an intricate graph) "I just can’t find any common denominator!" "It seems as though these 17 men and teens have absolutely no point of commonality at all!"UPDATE: A voice in the wilderness Tarek Fatah...
"In my mind this was an honour killing," Tarek Fatah the founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, says adamantly about what he calls a blight on Islam. Make no mistake, says Fatah: "This has happened before" and will again.
Fatah says these murders have been covered up. "Sometimes they involve a balcony and they say it's suicide and other times they just don't find the body."
