Honor Killing: Where Is The Honor In Murder

Two years after her death, Aqsa Parvez got justice on Thursday.

The Crown Court in Brampton , Ontario, Canada , sentenced the girl’s father and brother to a minimum of 18 years in jail for the second degree murder ruling of Aqsa’s killing in 2007.

The family, originally from Pakistan, emigrated to Mississauga, Ontario, in 2001. In the following years the women of the Parvez family were expected to follow the traditions that would apply to family life in Pakistan. In 2007 Aqsa, as a 16 year old girl living in a western society, struggled with the conflict between tradition within her family home and the freedom outside. She became torn in many directions but thirsted for opportunities that normal teenagers in Canada will expect. It seems her father and brother became increasingly angry with the freedoms she was pushing for. The result was on the 10th December 2007, Aqsa was killed at the hands of her family.

The Crown has stated that Aqsa murder was an honor killing.

In 2000 the United Nations believed that over 5,000 women and girls were murdered every year under the heading of honor killing. It seems that the vast majority of these killings were in the Indian Sub-continent, Middle East and parts of Africa. However with increasing immigration to the western world from those areas, the number of deaths associated with honor killings in the West has been increasing. In the UK for instance it is believe that a dozen females are murdered each year , due to “honor”.

What is confusing to the western world is that it was thought that these murders where religion driven. However, studies showed that in fact the primary motive for these diabolical killings is the culture of male dominance and control that is a direct result of the feudal type culture in areas like the Indian Sub-continent.

It now appears that in western countries such as USA, Canada and UK, there is a lack of courage on behalf of authorities to highlight these issues related to certain parts of immigrant population.

Political correctness appears to overwhelm real justice on these issues.

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Posted by Kevin Needham on Jun 21 2010. Filed under Featured News, Legal. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry