http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=1059526A critic of Islam is pleased that two Muslims in Canada will spend 25 years in prison for murdering a relative in an alleged "honor killing."
According to The Globe and Mail, 60-year-old Muhammad Parvez and his 29-year-old son Waqas Parvez recently plead guilty to second-degree murder for the December 10, 2007, slaying of 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez.
The paper said the teenager fought her parents for the right to wear Western clothing and to jettison the "hijab" (Islamic head covering) they wanted her to wear. Asqa wanted to apply for a part-time job against her father Muhammad's wishes and she ran away from home twice, after which her father vowed he would kill her he ever ran away again.
While agreeing with the sentences imposed, Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, says more needs to be done.
Robert Spencer"It's a good thing that Aqsa Parvez's father was convicted and will serve, along with her brother, a life sentence," he remarks. "But it's not enough because it is something that's going to continue in Muslim communities in the United States and Canada until we confront the root of the problem."
And the root of the problem, he says, is Islamic sharia law, which condones such honor killings. "This is something that the American press has gravely omitted in its coverage of such events in the United States and in Canada and elsewhere in the West," says the Jihad Watch director. "But the unpleasant reality is that many Muslim countries -- notably Syria and Jordan -- actually have it on their books."
Spencer refutes the claims by the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations that Aqsa's murder was nothing more than an act of domestic violence that could have happened in any religion.
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