Justice Is Done In Shafia Trial

On January 13, I posted an article (rightwinggranny.com) about the Shafia family in Ontario, Canada. Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya and their son, Hamed were charged with murdering three of Mr. Shafia’s daughters and Mr. Shafia’s first wife. Today’s Edmonton Sun reported that Mr. Shafia, his current wife and thier son were each found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder.

The article in the newspaper quotes the judge in the case.

“It’s difficult to conceive of a more heinous, more despicable, more honourless crime,” said the judge.

“The apparent reason behind these cold-blooded, shameful murders was that the four completely innocent victims offended your twisted notion of honour, a notion of honour founded upon the domination and control of women. A sick notion of honour that has no place in any civilized society.”

I would like to point out one of the problems with a religion that embraces the concept of honor killing. We as people are not perfect and our judgements are not always objective. How convenient for a second wife to find a way to end any tension between herself and her husband’s first wife by simply killing the first wife and claiming that it was done in obedience to god. That is just sad. I don’t think I trust that god.

 

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Some Chilling Quotes From A Canadian Murder Trial

A website called Atlas Shrugged posted an article on Wednesday about a murder trial being held in Canada.

The article reports:

Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41, is accused of conspiring with her husband, Mohammad Shafia, 58, and their eldest son, Hamed, 21, of running one of their family cars into a canal with their four relatives inside.

This was an honor killing. Some of the comments from the family members accused of the killings (I apologize for the language):

“May the devil s**t on their graves. Is that what a daughter should be? Would a daughter be such a whore?” — Muslim dad who honor killed his three daughters and wife.

“God’s curse on them for generations.  … They betrayed Islam.”

“I would do it again 100 times,” said Mohammad Shafia, who murdered his THREE daughters in honour killing for dating the wrong boys.

What kind of god leads people to kill members of their family and believe that they are doing something good?

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