[silentknight]

TORONTO - Another honour killing in our midst and the silence is deafening.

Shaher Bano Shahdady was just 21, a young mother who wanted to live her Canadian life as a free Canadian woman. And for that, she was strangled to death in front of her toddler.

From the Baloch region of Pakistan, she came to Toronto as a little girl. At 14, her father, Mullah Abdul Ghafoor, sent her back to Pakistan to study at a religious fundamentalist madrassa and a few years later she was forced into an arranged marriage with her first cousin.

But her precious son was her ticket back home.

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But she had to sponsor her husband here and his arrival in May forced her back into the cage she had struggled so long to escape. He wanted her to wear a burka, to stay away from Facebook, to put aside any plans she had of resuming a secular education.

“She rebelled,” explains Tarek Fatah, founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress. “With the help of social services, she got an apartment for herself and her son. She was leaving her husband and asking for a divorce. How dare she? It would dishonour everyone.”

She and her son moved out July 1. After just three weeks of freedom, she was dead.

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“Absolutely, it was an honour killing,” contends Fatah. “This is the fundamental issue here that no one wants to address. Nobody wants to tell Muslim men that women are not their possessions. It’s about women’s sexuality and men who say they own the franchise to it.”

Toronto Police refuse to confirm that. Maybe all the facts aren’t in yet. Or maybe it’s just not politically correct. “She decided to separate from the marriage and it’s alleged that he killed her,” says spokesman Tony Vella.

[econjack]

And they call Islam the religion of peace. Nope. It’s a warrior cult code...period.

[Travis McGee]

Islam: an insane murder cult since Mad Mo crawled out of the bat cave and barked at the moon.

[A_perfect_lady]

I dislike Islam intensely, but let’s be realistic: men killing women who leave them is endemic in every culture, from what I can tell.

[kjo]

Where are the US feminists?

The silence from liberals are stories like this is amazing.

[rawhide]

Shaher Bano Shahdady, 21

[Don W]

Canada ping

[ken5050]

FYI..Heas up..

Tomorrow night ( Sat) 10PM est, FOX has an updated special on honor killings..with Bill Hemmer..he's done a few of these before..really good..

[hattend]

“She rebelled,” explains Tarek Fatah, founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress. “With the help of social services, she got an apartment for herself and her son. She was leaving her husband and asking for a divorce. How dare she? It would dishonour everyone."

And people wonder why Muzzies are hated.

[Ford4000]

The lesson here is that if you want to divorce a muslim man, get a gun then file.