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In this overly politically correct world, Justice Metivier should be commended for recognizing the crimes committed by these backward un-Canadians for what they were Justice Monique Metivier of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Honour crimes and the Ottawa judge who gets it Last week, Justice Monique Metivier of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice sentenced a mother, Iqbal Bibi, and her son Khawar Saeed, to short jail terms for acts of violence committed against Bibi’s daughter, Saeed’s sister. Bibi received a sentence of five months in jail while Saeed was jailed for seven months. What was interesting about this...

Jordan's new parliament has rejected two proposals giving women more rights because, some deputies say, they contradict Islamic teachings. While parliament was dormant in 2001, the government amended the two bills to allow women to file for divorce and to give courts the leeway to impose harsh punishment on what has become known as honor killings—men who kill women relatives who are perceived to have shamed family honor. Sunday, in just its third session since the June 17 parliamentary elections, the 110-seat Chamber of Deputies rejected the amendments to the Civil Status Law and the Penal Code by acclamation. The...

JORDAN'S newly-elected parliament threw out temporary laws allowing women the right to divorce their husbands and providing harsher punishments for those guilty of so-called honour crimes, parliamentary sources said Monday. Islamist and conservative deputies mounted a coalition to reject the laws passed by the cabinet in the two years since the previous parliament was dissolved, despite a vigorous defence from Jordanian Prime Minister Ali Abu Ragheb, who stressed they did not violate religious traditions. Although welcomed by liberal deputies as a "positive development", Islamists said allowing women the right to divorce without their husband's consent would "destroy families". Conservatives pointed...