Posted on 04/08/2009 7:27:00 AM PDT by Lesforlife
Refugee fears death in Pakistan
AARON HARRIS/TORONTO STAR
Roohi Tabassum, 44, shown in her lawyer's office April 6, 2009, says she will be killed by her husband if she is deported to Pakistan, booked for this month.
Hairdresser says husband overseas has threatened to 'finish' her if she's deported to her native land
April 07, 2009 KENYON WALLACE STAFF REPORTER
Roohi Tabassum had nothing when she arrived in Canada eight years ago as a refugee from Pakistan.
But since then, Tabassum, 44, has built a life in this country. She cuts hair at a salon. She bought a house in Mississauga. She calls Canada her home.
But at the end of the month, the life Tabassum struggled to build for so long is in danger of ending. An unsuccessful refugee claimant, she faces a deportation order to Pakistan that could, she says, be a death sentence.
Tabassum says her husband, Faisal Javed, currently living in Dubai, has sent her written threats saying she has dishonoured him by working at a salon where she touches the hair of men and women.
Tabassum also says her husband suspects she has a boyfriend after a friend's husband answered her phone one night when her husband called from Dubai.
"If I go back I will be killed and because of me, some of my relatives will be in trouble too," Tabassum said through tears in an interview.
"I don't want to go to Pakistan. I feel very comfortable in this diverse country. I feel comfortable religiously and socially."
Tabassum says she has not spoken to her husband since 2007. The Star's attempts to contact Javed were unsuccessful. None of the allegations have been proven.
She showed the Star letters, purportedly from Javed, submitted to Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...
DO NOT DEPORT Roohi Tabassum
Canadian Embassy - Washington
501 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC
USA
20001
Tel: 1 (202) 682-1740
Fax: 1 (202) 682-7726
What is Canada thinking? OMG!
Why was her refugee claim denied? The article is completely one sided, she could be a convicted felon for all we know.
The lady has multiple written threats, from multiple family members, that she WILL be killed if she returns to Pak, because she works as a hairdresser. During that perilous job, she sometimes cuts mens’ hair.
Who the *&^% cares why she was denied? Written death threat promises is sufficient reason for asylum. We have to defeat jihad somehow. One hairdresser at a time is fine with me.
The lady has multiple written threats, from multiple family members, that she WILL be killed if she returns to Pak, because she works as a hairdresser. During that perilous job, she sometimes cuts mens’ hair.
Who the *&^% cares why she was denied? Written death threat promises is sufficient reason for asylum. We have to defeat jihad somehow. One hairdresser at a time is fine with me.
Not certain, but do all felons deserve the death penalty?
You should because she was most likely denied because her claim lacks credibility.
The lady has multiple written threats, from multiple family members, that she WILL be killed if she returns to Pak, because she works as a hairdresser.
Your are assuming that an asylum applicant would never falsify evidence. She has had her due process in one of the most liberal immigration systems going (Canada) and she could not even convince them.
Sorry but I have read too many of these one sided immigration sob-stories not to cast a jaundice eye at the onset. They are designed to cause outrage but there is always more to the story conveniently left out.
But don’t worry she will probably just do what every other asylum applicant does when they get denied in Canada, enter the US illegally and start the process over again.
No, but according to Canada Immigration her claim of fear of death is not credible, hence the rejection.
The problem with your assertions are as follows.
1) The family has “honor killed” people before.
2) The death threats have arrived from out-of-country
and are in writing.
3) The threat is corraborated by multiple credible
bystanders.
4) The practice is common.
5) Because “honor killing” is a fundamental doctrinal practice of the jihad, protecting a woman from it
is a matter of defeating the jihad itself, not even just
saving the individual. Due to the West’s need to destroy
the jihad, great deference should be shown to those who
will not only abandon it, but who are essentially throwing
themselves on our mercy in fleeing from it.
6) If you are wrong, and she is murdered, your tune
would change. And it should.
7) Even if the claim were false, the fact that she is
publicly seeking asylum based on fleeing jihad, has
now made the claim true. The jihad would now want to
kill her just for making the claim of fleeing the
jihad. So even if any of your other cynicism were
correct, her very public committment to seeking
asylum in the “infidel” country, to protect her from
Muslim family, is grounds enough.
Conclusion. Saving this woman is a blow to the jihad and
a credit to the west. Ignoring her throws she, and others
like her, to the alligators.
Bttt
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