Islamic “family values” come to Canada.

A Canadian Muslim man and his 26-year-old son have been arrested following the death of his 16-year-old daughter.  The man attacked her in the family’s Mississauga home because she refused to wear the hijab (head scarf).  He has been charged with murder, the son with obstructing police.

Police were called to a home in Mississauga early Monday morning by a man who told 911 operators that he had killed his daughter.

They found Aqsa Parvez lying motionless on the floor of her bedroom, to all appearances dead, but paramedics found a faint pulse and rushed her to hospital. The teenager succumbed to her injuries several hours later, police said Tuesday.

Const. J.P. Valade would not give any details about the teenager's killing, but police sources said she was strangled.

Friends of the girl said she had left the family home, where her brothers also lived with their families, about a week before the attack because of arguments with her father and brothers over her refusal to wear traditional Muslim garb, including the hijab.

Aqsa’s friends at Applewood Heights Secondary School said that, for the past year, she had lived in fear of her father and his threats.

The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN) issued a denunciation of the attack that pointedly ignores salient circumstances.

The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN), the Islamic Social Services Association (ISSA) and the Islamic Society of Toronto today urged "zero tolerance" for violence against women and domestic abuse. The Muslim groups are calling on Canadians of all faiths to address the realities of domestic violence.

CAIR-CAN and ISSA are also asking for the strongest possible prosecution in the strangulation death of 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez, a Mississauga teen allegedly attacked by her father.

"There should be zero tolerance for violence of any kind against women or girls," said ISSA President Shahina Siddiqui. "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."

"Muslims and Canadians of all faiths need to reflect on the realities of domestic abuse and take concrete steps to eliminate violence against women," said CAIR-CAN representative Selma Djukic.

Do tell.  So, what exactly does CAIR-CAN plan to do to encourage Muslim men not to attack women?

I hope that police and reporters will investigate what the man and his son were taught by their imam at whatever mosque they attend.  Were they encouraged to believe that such cold-blooded barbarity is acceptable in Canada?

h/t for CAIR-CAN: Kathy Shaidle

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