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The Shafias will appeal their first-degree murder convictions based on what their lawyers consider prejudicial evidence presented at their trial. Hamed Shafia’s lawyer, Patrick McCann, has already filed application with the Ontario Court of Appeal on behalf of his client and told CBC the other two lawyers involved with the case will likely do the same. “He is quite determined to pursue it and continue the fight, so to speak,” McCann said Tuesday. Echoing reports made in his closing arguments in the trial, the Ottawa-based lawyer said statements from the victims made to their boyfriends and teachers, who testified in...

..killing six of his relatives before shooting himself in Dallas, Texas, on Christmas morning has been alleged to be an Islamic honor killing.

Imagine the media attention that would be garnered if any non-Muslim in the U.S. did something as sensationalistically violent and dramatic as to dress as Santa Claus and commit a mass murder against his own family at a Christmas gathering. But this past weekend, a Muslim man in Texas who was reportedly angry at his family for becoming too westernized committed just such an egregious act, resulting in the deaths of seven people, as documented this morning by FNC's Fox and Friends.

DALLAS (AP) - A Dallas man accused of drowning his two young sons after abducting them while they were walking to school is being held on capital murder charges. Naim Muhammad was being held without bond Monday evening in Dallas County Jail on two counts of capital murder. Online jail records don't indicate that he has an attorney.

A baby girl born out of wedlock must be adopted to save her from the risk of being slaughtered in an ‘honour killing’, a court ruled yesterday. If the unmarried Muslim woman’s father found out about the child, he would feel such ‘unimaginable shame’ he could unleash a vengeful bloodbath by killing the baby and his whole family, three senior judges agreed. So they made the extraordinary order to have the one-year-old girl – known as Baby Q – adopted for her own safety. She will now grow up with adoptive parents and, when she is older, they will explain...

Truth be told, I quickly discounted my initial reaction that Muslims might be involved because the killer was reported to be in a Santa costume. Stupid me. The ‘Santa’ who massacred his family on Christmas morning was a Muslim who was enraged that his daughter was dating a non-Muslim.

Islamic honor killing in Texas: "Santa" who murdered family on Christmas morning was Muslim who didn't like his daughter dating a non-Muslim Aziz Yazdanpanah, a Muslim, didn't like his daughter's non-Muslim boyfriend and was exhibiting stalker behavior. “She couldn’t date at all until she was a certain age, but when he was going to let her date she couldn’t date anyone outside of their race or religion.” Again and again we have seen honor killings in which fathers kill daughters who are dating non-Muslims or have supposedly besmirched the family honor by some sexual indiscretion. Lt. Todd Dearing says that...

The mainstream media has reported this as the "Santa killer." No mention that it was an Islamic honor killing until this Dallas Morning News story. Our daughters and granddaughters are going to be the ones who will suffer because of for this obfuscation and excusal of barbarism. This has been going on for years. When Amina and Sarah Said were brutally murdered by their father, also in Texas, on New Year’s Day 2008 for the same reason -- having non-Muslim boyfriends -- I thought, this is it. This is going to break the dam wide open. America would not, could...

A Muslim extremist style killing has been reported from Sammanthurai of Ampara district of Sri Lanka's Eastern Province. ... The 17-year-old daughter was killed by father allegedly for having a relationship with a person belonged to another religion.

A British court on Wednesday apparently made legal history -- ordering an out-of-wedlock Muslim baby adopted out to prevent it from suffering an "honor killing." Britain is abuzz over the bizarre and unprecedented court ruling.As the London Daily Mail reports: A baby girl born out of wedlock must be adopted to save her from the risk of being slaughtered in an "honor killing," a court ruled yesterday.If the unmarried Muslim woman's father found out about the child, he would feel such "unimaginable shame" he could unleash a vengeful bloodbath by killing the baby and his whole family, three senior judges agreed.So...

Against the backdrop of the Shafia honour-killing trial in Kingston, Montreal’s Concordia University graduate Sikander Ziad Hashmi, an imam with the Islamic Society of Kingston, tells us “there is no such thing as ‘honour killing’ in Islam.” Last week, Hashmi challenged readers of Canada’s National Post Full Commentonline to find one classical Islamic religious text that endorses the murder of a family member to preserve honour. PointdeBascule in Montreal answers the imam’s request by producing not one, but TWO Islamic texts stating that a father who kills his child must NOT be subject to punishment (“retaliation”). The first text is...

Couple about to start new life together in the U.S. Sources suggest the groom's relatives had been happy with the marriage, but it had caused upset among the bride's family. A Scottish businessman and his American wife were gunned down in the street in a suspected honour killing while on holiday in Pakistan. Glasgow-based Saif Rehman, 31, and Uzma Naurin from New York, 30, were shot dead when their car was ambushed in the north-eastern city of Gujrat .

The boyfriend of a woman who was killed by her brothers seven years ago in honor killing has also been shot dead, allegedly by the woman’s father. Güldünya Tören’s brothers... killed their sister in an attempt to “cleanse their family honor" in Istanbul in 2004... Tören's brothers then attempted to kill her. She escaped her brothers’ first murder attempt, but was later shot dead by her brothers at a hospital where she was receiving treatment. ... In her testimony delivered to police at the hospital, Güldünya said her brothers had tried to kill her, but added that she would not...

"Mohammad Shafia, a 58-year-old Muslim man, has been charged with murdering his three teenage daughters in an apparent honor killing." This Muslim POS named Mohammad Shafia also has a polygamous relationship. Just who the he!! does this POS think he is anyways?

'I Would Do It Again 100 Times': Muslim Father 'Murdered His THREE Daughters In Honor Killing For Dating Wrong Boys' Mohammad Shafia 'spoke to second wife about "treacherous" daughters' Both standing trial in Ontario with son, charged with first degree murder. Gruesome video footage of submerged car where they were found is shown. Afghani father felt 'ashamed' that eldest daughter had married Pakistani boy. Shafia, 58, had seven children in total with wife Tooba Yahya, 41 By RICHARD HARTLEY-PARKINSON and MARK DUELL 15th November 2011 A Muslim father charged with murdering his three daughters in apparent honour killings has said...

One day last week at the trial of the Shafia family in Kingston, Ont., as court was hearing a relative describe the small freedoms the teenage girls in that family so hungered for – Canadian friends, makeup and clothes, the company of boys — I found there were tears streaming down my face. They had wanted so bloody little. The thought that their modest desires could have cost them their lives – and that is the central allegation at trial, that in their ordinary rebellion they had offended the family honour and paid for it with their lives – was...

In parts of Pakistan today, women are viewed as property and are believed to personify the honor of their families. If a woman goes against the will of her family, for example, by choosing her own husband, family members may feel that in order to restore their honor, they have to kill the woman--a so-called "honor killing." A few women are able to escape this fate and find refuge at shelters. ... The most recent report from the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said that in 2009 about 46 percent of all female murders in Pakistan were in the name...

A 26-year-old East Boston man and his lover stand accused of hatching a heartless scheme to kill the man’s wife, wound him and claim the shocking shooting was racially-charged — a horrific murder-for-hire plot that calls to mind the notorious Charles Stuart case. Kashif Parvaiz and his Billerica girlfriend, Antionette Stephen, 26, allegedly left a deadly trail of text messages outlining how the cold-blooded killing would play out and give Parvaiz “freedom” from the marriage, according to an arrest affidavit. Both were charged yesterday with the murder of Parvaiz’s wife, Nazish Noorani, 27, a Pakistani native and mother of their...

FAISALABAD: A man gunned down six of his daughters on suspicion that two of them were in relationships with boys in the neighbourhood. (excerpt)

(LINK HERE: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/june-24th-rally-for-fatima-at-now-conference-protest-feminist-silence-on-honor-killings-and-fatima-a.html) Does being a Muslim mean you can get away with murder? RALLY FOR JUSTICE FOR FATIMA at the NOW Conference Friday, June 24th, 1:00 - 2:00 Embassy Suites Tampa - USF/Near Busch Gardens 3705 Spectrum Blvd. Tampa, Florida 33612 2011 Stand against Islamic supremacism, gender apartheid, and Islamic law in American law enforcement and courts. Call out the feminists and the Tampa Chief of Police, Jane Castor. National NOW Conference June 24-26 in Tampa, Florida, at the Embassy Suites Tampa - USF/Near Busch Gardens. Jane Castor, Tampa Chief of Police, is scheduled to deliver the Welcome Speech...