The first ever Canadian trial of four “honour” murders caused by a Muslim polygamous family has returned guilty of first-degree murder verdicts for the father and husband of the women murdered, his second wife and their son. GOD BLESS CANADA!
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/shafia-jury-enters-second-full-day-deliberations-kingston-090532874.html
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Shafias+guilty+first+degree+murder/6069325/story.html
Editorial by Sally Armstrong in January 30 Ottawa Citizen. Sally is the author os Veiled Threat: the Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan and Bitter Roots Tender Shoots: the Uncertain Fate of Afghanistan’s Women Her third book: Daughters of the Revolution will be published in October.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/canada-in-afghanistan/tradition+shame/6070455/story.html
The conversation continues from Afghanistan with another brutal murder of a young mother who failed to give her husband a boy!
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Afghan+killed+giving+birth+girl+police/6071976/story.html
Posted by Respect and Understanding on February 13, 2012 at 12:16 pm
I am not sure why this has anything to do with polygamy, because honour killings occur irrespective of marriage? Secondly, I am nor sure why monogamy is not attacked on the same basis, seeing that many hundreds of women are murdered by their husbands within the so-called Christian monogamous societies of Western Europe and North America – for all sorts of spurious reasons?