The Canadian federal government has unveiled a revamped guide to help immigrants settle in Canada — a document that, for the first time, informs newcomers about practices that “will not be tolerated in Canada,” including female genital mutilation, honour crimes and marriage fraud.
In Edmonton, Canada, a couple has been charged with attacking and confining a 21-year-old woman in her home after she refused to participate in an arranged marriage outside the country.
In Canada, a 65-year-old Afghan immigrant was sent to prison for life after jurors found him guilty of second-degree murder in the 2008 slaying of his diminutive wife, Randjida Khairi in an “honor killing”. The Prosecution portrayed the crime as a classic “honor killing” — one motivated by the victim’s desire for equal rights and her defence of their children’s increasingly un-Islamic ways.
In an interview with Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper, Ayaan discusses freedom of expression and religious freedom.
Via:[http://ahafoundation.visibli.com/share/GreKX7]
Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada visited a Montreal centre for victims of family violence to denounce crimes against women and girls committed in the name of “honour.”
Via:[http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1147790--in-shafias-hometown-stephen-harper-talks-about-honour-crimes]
In Canada, a bookstore has “sold out” of a controversial marriage guide that advises Muslim men on how to beat their wives.
Via:[http://www.torontosun.com/2012/03/23/book-tells-muslim-men-how-to-beat-and-control-their-wives]
The verdict in the Shafia case exemplifies the ability of Western legal systems to provide justice to victims of honour killings. If anything positive can come from the Shafia verdict, let it be that law enforcement throughout North America takes the time to educate themselves about honour violence.
Via:[http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ayaan-hirsi-ali/shafi-trial_b_1244322.html?ref=canada]
Three members of a Montreal family have been imprisoned for life after a jury found them guilty of murdering four other family members in a crime the judge called “cold-blooded, shameful murders” based on a “twisted notion of honour.
Via:[http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada-in-afghanistan/Shafia+jury+finds+guilty+cold+blooded+shameful+murders/6069519/story.html]
Three Montrealers accused of drowning four Shafia family members in a Kingston, Ontario “honor” killing viewed the deceased as the “diseased limb on the family tree” that needed to be removed, a Crown attorney told jury members on Thursday.
Via:[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/01/26/shafia-murder-trial.html?cmp=rss]
A Muslim mother broke down in court as she was quizzed on Canadian court over her complicity in the “honor” killings of her three children and her husband’s first wife.
Via:[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084882/Muslim-mother-breaks-court-quizzed-honor-killings-children-husbands-wife.html?ito=feeds-newsxml]
