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B-b-b-but That’s Their “Culture,” Right?

December 14, 2007 by Jenn Sierra  
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jijabvictim.jpgFoxNews reports a man confessed to killing his daughter, and her friends say she was afraid to go home because she and her father clashed over her refusal to wear a hijab.

Notice these lines from the the story:

Muslim leaders cautioned against jumping to conclusions.

“I don’t want the public to think that this is really an Islamic issue or an immigrant issue,” said Mohamed Elmasry of the Canadian Islamic Congress. “It is a teenager issue.”

A teenager issue? What could this teenager possibly have done to deserve to be strangled to death by her own father?! Evidently, she was trying to leave home. I guess, we shouldn’t “judge,” though, because honor killings, afterall, are “their culture,” and we don’t want them to call us “ugly Americans,” (right, Whoopie)?

Oh, wait…this happened in Canada! Are we, as Americans (beauty not withstanding) allowed to have an opinion about this happening on our northern border?

Apparently, the leftist media in Canada is already branding anyone who dares to question the legitimacy of sharia law as “racist.” (See Stephen Brown’s Horror Under the Hijab)

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6 Responses to “B-b-b-but That’s Their “Culture,” Right?”
  1. Dave Lucas says:
    December 14, 2007 at 6:04 pm

    Islam did NOT kill this girl, no more than Christianity killed Megan Meier!

    Keep in mind this is a single instance of a crime. Compare it with the video that pops up now and again of a stalker abducting a young woman who is later found dead. Aqsa Parvez’s death is NOT a normal “islamic event.” I remember a kid in 1st grade whose Christian mother forced him to kneel in rock salt when he was bad until his knees bled. When he was 12 she beat him so badly he lost hearing in one ear. Parents are sometimes overprotective, sometimes STUPID, like the woman who created the phony MySpace page that led to the suicide of Megan Meier. But that’s another story…

    http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2007/12/double-life-of-aqsa-parvez.html

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  2. Jenn Sierra says:
    December 14, 2007 at 6:27 pm

    I think a lot of Muslim women around the world would disagree with you, Dave.

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  3. 1389 says:
    December 14, 2007 at 7:18 pm

    It’s just plain wrong to draw a moral equivalence between the endemic and Koran-mandated Islamic isolation and abuse of girls and women, and the abuses perpetrated by individual wrongdoers coming from non-Muslim backgrounds.

    The difference is that, in the latter case, the evil behavior is perpetrated by specific individuals for their own bad motives, contrary to what is mandated by their society.

    Nothing in Christianity mandates or condones the behavior of either of the women that you described. Furthermore, just because the first woman may have claimed to be a Christian doesn’t mean she actually was one. All religions have their hypocrites and phonies, not to mention persons who are mentally unbalanced and/or who lack self-control.

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  4. 1389 says:
    December 14, 2007 at 7:22 pm

    Another way that Islam can sicken or even kill women and children:

    Burqas are bad for your health

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  5. Orlando Orlando says:
    December 14, 2007 at 8:43 pm

    What troubles me about this case is the lack of outcry from the Muslim community. Dave is right that this does not reflect all Muslims but had a Christian father killed his daughter, the Christian community would have been outraged. On the Muslim side we here NOTHING. This is disturbing.

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