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Related: About this forumAfghan couple killed three teenage daughters in honour killing
Members of an Afghani refugee family have been jailed for life in Canada for the honour killing of three teenage girls and their stepmother, in a crime which shocked their adopted country.
Mohammad Shafia, the girls' father and husband of the fourth victim, was secretly taped by police describing his daughters as a "disgrace" and complaining that they dated boys and wore inappropriate clothes.
e was sentenced to life in prison along with his second wife, Tooba Yahya who he was married to illegally and their 21-year-old son Hamed, the girls' brother.
At least one of the dead girls Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13 had unsuccessfully sought help from the police before their deaths.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/9050004/Afghan-couple-killed-three-teenage-daughters-in-honour-killing.html
The murderers perceived their lives as having religious and cultural meaning, but a meaningful life is so subjective, that it is ultimately meaningless.
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Afghan couple killed three teenage daughters in honour killing (Original Post)
ZombieHorde
Jan 2012
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ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)1. CNN has also been providing good coverage of this
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/01/30/exp-point-manji-canada-honor-murder.cnn
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/30/world/americas/canada-honor-murder/index.html?
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/30/islam-doesnt-justify-honor-murders-experts-insist/
Some of the wiretapped conversations are compelling.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/30/world/americas/canada-honor-murder/index.html?
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/30/islam-doesnt-justify-honor-murders-experts-insist/
Some of the wiretapped conversations are compelling.
izquierdista
(11,689 posts)2. Religion, the ultimate boat anchor
Mohammad should have left that anchor back in the old country.
LeftishBrit
(41,192 posts)3. Awful. The poor girls.
Religious extremism is so often associated with keeping females down, with honour killings being the extreme version of that.
iverglas
(38,549 posts)4. sorry, but there's really no "religion" to this
And I say that as a devout and militant atheist, and also a person with serious concerns about the negative effects that attacks on a vulnerable minority's religion can have for members of that community.
You may be interested in discussion in this thread in LBN:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101438448
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)5. Is Easter a religious holiday? nt
iverglas
(38,549 posts)6. I hope you find the LBN discussion interesting
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)7. I looked at it. It wasn't. nt