But it never seems to be forthcoming. An excellent summation of the phenomenon of honor killings: "Honor killings: When the ancient and the modern collide," by Cinnamon Stillwell in, of all places, the San Francisco Gate:
Throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, young Muslim women are being targeted for violence. Lest it be thought hate crimes are to blame, it is, in fact, their own relatives who are the perpetrators. So-called honor killings, whereby a Muslim male family member, typically the father, murders his daughter in order to defend the family's honor, is a growing problem.While statistics are notoriously hard to come by due to the private nature of such crimes and the fact that very few are reported, the United Nations Population Fund approximates that as many as 5,000 women are murdered in this manner each year worldwide. Undoubtedly that's a low estimate, as reports from Turkey, Jordan, Pakistan and the Palestinian territories, among other locales, are filtering in at an alarming rate. Add to the list Germany, Sweden, other parts of Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, and it's clear that young Muslim women in the West are becoming increasingly vulnerable.
While fathers are commonly responsible for honor killings, they often act in concert with their daughters' brothers, uncles, and even female relatives. For infringements upon a Muslim daughter's "honor" constitute the greatest humiliation possible to the religious and tribal tradition from which many such immigrant families emerged. Acts that demand "punishment" include refusing to wear a hijab (or headscarf), having non-Muslim boyfriends or male friends of any origin, being sexually active, rejecting arranged marriages, aggressively seeking employment and education, and, more than anything else, attempting to assimilate into Western culture.
Trying to balance a tightrope between the demands of competing and in some cases incompatible cultures, young Muslim women in the West are caught between two worlds. And all too often they pay the ultimate price. Indeed, two such cases have rocked the United States and Canada in recent months, bringing the specter of honor killings much closer to home.
On New Year's Day, residents of Lewisville, Texas were shocked to hear about the brutal murder of teenage sisters Sarah and Amina Said. The two were found shot to death in a taxi after having made a last phone call to a police dispatcher asking for help. The police immediately issued an arrest warrant for the girls' father, Egyptian-born cab driver Yaser Abdel Said, who remains at large to this day.
A Muslim married to a Christian woman, the elder Said had a history of physical and sexual abuse toward his daughters. This past Christmas, his wife, Patricia, finally fled the state with the girls and set up residence in Tulsa, Okla., under an assumed name. Said's violent and domineering behavior was apparently motivated by his concern that, as the Dallas Morning News describes it, "Western culture was corrupting the chastity of his daughters." Honor students and athletes at Lewisville High School, Sarah and Amina were the quintessential American teenagers. Amina had been awarded a $20,000 college scholarship and Sarah planned to study medicine. Photos of the two young women demonstrate a vibrancy and attractiveness that undoubtedly induced fear in their controlling father. The emergence of non-Muslim boyfriends was the final straw.
Although the girls' mother denied that Said was motivated by religion or culture and their brother, Islam, claimed it was not an honor killing, all evidence points to the contrary. While, reportedly, the family was not terribly observant, Said, as described by the Dallas Morning News, "often espoused his version of traditional Middle Eastern values," including marrying his then 15-year-old wife when he was 30, threatening to take one of his daughters "back to Egypt and have her killed," where, as he put it, "it's OK to do that ... if you dishonor your family," trying to break up one of his daughters and her non-Muslim boyfriend, and threatening to kill both his daughters on multiple occasions over disputes surrounding their social lives. Summing it all up, the sisters' great-aunt Gail Gartrell stated unequivocally, "This was an honor killing."
The slayings of Sarah and Amina Said came on the heels of another apparent honor killing, that of 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez in Mississauga, Ontario, last December. Aqsa was a vivacious and popular young woman whose attempts at a normal, Western teenage social life angered her Pakistani father, Muhammad Parvez. Aqsa, who was opposed to wearing a hijab and sometimes changed her outfit once she got to school, often clashed with her father and had left the family home a week before the attack out of fear. But she eventually returned, only to be met with strangulation at the hands of her own father. She died later in the hospital and the elder Parvez, who initially called the police, was charged with her murder. Aqsa's 26-year-old brother, Waqas, was charged with obstructing police.
Like the Said sisters, Aqsa had long suffered abuse at the hands of her father, reports of which were never adequately pursued by Canadian authorities. But Aqsa's friends saw trouble brewing and, according to the National Post, noted that "she had been threatened by her strictly religious family before." According to one of them, Ebonie Mitchell, Aqsa held conflicting opinions with her family on wearing a hijab. As she put it, Aqsa "just wanted to dress like we do. Last year, she wore like the Islamic stuff and everything, the hijab, and this year she's all western. She just wanted to look like everyone else." As another friend, Krista Garbhet, noted, "She just wanted to be herself; honestly, she just wanted to show her beauty." However, as Aqsa was to discover, the latter desire can have dangerous consequences for young Muslim women in the West.
In the wake of Parvez's murder, one would hope for moral clarity from the Canadian Muslim community. But with a few exceptions, the usual suspects issued the usual apologetics....
Read it all.
I can't believe the San Francisco Chronicle published this. Kudos to them. And kudos to Ms. Stillwell.
The Canadian Muslim Community has already spoken. The murder of Aqsa was simply domestic violence, just like the domestic violence in Christianity and all other religions. I don't expect anything more.
This is another glaring example of the huge and insurmountable differences of muslims living in a democracy-civilized nation.
When murder is termed an "HONOR KILLING" we see there is no hope of any reconciliation.
These people have been practicing this butcher for nearly 14 centuries so realistically there is no hope of any improvement.
Murder is built into the islamic culture and any critic should believe muslims will not change any of their beliefs to suit our laws or demands.
Isalami and muslims do not belong in the western world.
Humane repatriation is the only answer.
I thoughts "isalami" would be another nickname for islam......and dont forget islime.
This is great. Thanks, Robert.
And THANKS Cinnamon.
I think anyone reading this should, once they've linked to the original article, send thanks and a big hug to Cinnamon. C'mon; you know it's right.
Those who say this or that has nothing to do with Islam, it is cultural, should remember that Islam governs the culture.
Everything is dictated by Islam, first and foremost the culture.
Unless something is explicitly forbidden by Islam, it is allowed and perpetuated.
That includes FGM.
The fact that these things are not forbidden shows that the [Islamic] religion is devoid of any moral code.
The murder of Aqsa was simply domestic violence.
Possibly even true, still horrible. The level of domestic violence in Islamic families is staggering, as the men may feel justified by the Quran to decide over the women and use physical - even capital - punishment against the disobedient.
Protecting and helping the women who suffer this brutality is one of the most efficient ways to expose the dark sides of Islam. We stand up for the weak, for womens' rights and protect against violence. If the men happen to proceed to justify their acts from the Quran, so much the better.
Here in Denmark we are experiencing a massive load of immigrant or descendent women at the crisis centers. This deserves maximum publicity.
...In Islam...there in no code of honor....only the code of death....
The left has been twisted up in knots of contradiction for some time, and willing to be or pretend to be blind where they see an advantage, such as in coddling Islam. But it would be wrong to consider them stupid or uneducated.
It is only a matter of time before Sharia gets put on the agenda by all but the most whacky of Ward Churchills, those who truly want to tear down the West.
Most liberal people realize somewhere under the constant humming of kumbaya that all cultures are not equal and only one culture really supports their way of life.
In stark terms, the Sharia is both homophobic and sexist. That is a reality which Muslims either must acknowledge, purge, change, or reconstruct but cannot deny.
Here are your real tough guys right here:
http://www.truveo.com/Arabs-Faint-from-Snake/id/4084337728
I suppose this could be any culture, but there is something especially funny about men from a culture where sexism is codified in law and culture acting like such sissies.
Shahina Siddiqui, president of the Islamic Social Services Association, claimed that "The strangulation death of Ms. Parvez was the result of domestic violence, a problem that cuts across Canadian society and is blind to color or creed," while Sheikh Alaa El-Sayyed, imam of the Islamic Society of North America in Mississauga, came to the following conclusion: "The bottom line is, it's a domestic violence issue."
-from the article
Domestic violence may cut across color or creed but what other creed sanctions it? And what society other than one ruled by Sharia actually encodes it in their laws?
Domestic violence may not be unique to Muslims but what IS unique is their reaction to it.
Might help if the law mandated death by hanging for honor killings, with the added provision that the rope be made of pigskin.
Dear Mr. Spencer,
I am one of the JW readers who sent this to you; thank you for posting it. However, just to clarify, Stillwell is published by the San Francisco Chronicle, not the San Francisco Gate. ("SFGate.com" is simply the name of the Chronicle's website.)
Also, Stillwell has been critical of radical Islam before and has received death threats, etc. Links to her previous columns may be found at her website:
http://cinnamonstillwell.com/
Ms. Stillwell is obviously an avid reader here at JW/DW, and that is a good thing.
Well done.
one should consider this muslim birth control
'clarity' IS what we are getting from the muslim community,
their 'clarity' is simply not related to our Judeo-Christian values
Posted by: ploome
Right you are, ploome!
The Moslems are being perfectly clear about this; and in their perverse world-view, they are being moral.
We in the West are the ones who are not clear about this; and if we want our civilization to survive we had better become clear, and quickly. We need to make it clear to Moslems in the West that here it is NOT o.k. to (1) kill daughters who refuse to wear head-coverings, or who want to date non-Moslems; or (2) kill Moslems who leave, or want to leave, Islam; or (3) kill women who have been raped; or (4)kill homo-sexuals simply for being homo-sexual; or (5) kill women who are seen in the presence of non-related men; or (6) kill, or threaten to kill, anyone who mocks or makes light of Islam; or . . . or . . . or . . . .
We, in other words, must make it clear to Moslems in the West that we will not tolerate their barbarity here. If they can't live under our rules, then they can leave, and go back to Islamic homelands where their "morality" is approved.
I truly believe that if the Muslims got their way and that tomorrow every person on earth became a Muslim, Muslims would start to look for reasons to kill each other. They don't know any other way to live as long as they are following Islam. Islam won't ALLOW them to live any other way. Can't the rest of the world understand this?? These people, with their false "prophet" and their false "god" and their false "doctrine" simply don't know how to co-exist in peace with ANYONE. You have to behave as a human being to do that. As long as non-Muslims exist, the Muslims get to have an "enemy" and an "excuse" for violence. But in reality the Koranic promise that that there will be peace when the world is converted to Islam is just a lie. Its the reverse: as long as Islam exists there will be no peace EVER, for ANYONE. Not even for Muslims.
"We, in other words, must make it clear to Moslems in the West that we will not tolerate their barbarity here."
Their barbarity should not be tolerated ANY WHERE. The West doesn't have a monopoly on civilization. The vast majority of the world has moved happily into modernity and are living relatively full and vibrant lives--even in places that are not as well-developed as others. The places that are backwards and out of touch are the places where Islam dominates. Naturally, we in the West have a vested interest in the protection of our democratic way of life, but in the big picture this is not about the West. This about all of humanity.
You can bet the Islamists want China, Korea, and Japan as much as they want America and Europe.
The fact is "we" have tolerated Islamic barbarity for 1,400 years. We have fought wars and Crusades but yet the Islamists persist. Why is that? Because there has never, ever been a global resistance to Islam. Ever.
Islam cannot be fought piecemeal. It just can't. There has a to be a collective, global response and I doubt I'll ever see that in my lifetime--but I do think it could happen at some point in human history. As the saying goes "something has to give".
Cinnamon Stilwell's blog has an update (citing another blog, linked below) -- there might have been an earlier honor killing in the US, back in 2004, in upstate New York:
(April 24, 2004) — A Turkish immigrant who is charged with killing his wife and critically injuring his two daughters in their Scottsville townhouse allegedly claimed he acted as a matter of honor. Ismail Peltek, who was indicted Friday on charges of second-degree murder in the April 15 slaying of his wife, Hatice Peltek, claimed he attacked his wife and daughters after learning that his brother had molested his wife and his 22-year-old daughter, according to court documents.
Peltek, 41, said he attacked his 4-year-old daughter because she had been “sullied” by a gynecological exam.
http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archives/003699.shtml
Greetings:
I haven't had a chance to read the full article yet, but there are two aspects of these "honor killings" that confound me.
The first is the culture versus religion questions.
I read an article on the Middle East Quarterly web site about the "tribal" aspect of Arab culture, which obviously pre-dates the Islamic aspect. This is not to say there has been no invidious synergy between the two, but if we are to address the problem effectively, don't we need to clarify the behavioral drivers?
The second is the sexual abuse question.
Given the obvious indicators of the Arab/Muslim male relationship to Arab/Muslim females, notably the walled off homes and veiled or burqa-ed dress, is there an underlying sexual lust aspect to these murders/ In essence, is sexual lust or the need to not allow the exposure of abuse in these cases?
I would be very much interested in any links or opinions regarding these two questions.
Dumpling is correct.
If all non-muslims were gone THAN it would be sunnis killing shites, shites killing sunnis, and the sunni-shites making an alliance and killing the suffi muslims.
Islamic bloodshed will never end until Judgment Day.
Outlaw islam.
11B40,
IMHO, the tribal vs the religious aspect of Arab culture doesn't really matter now. Many of these customs, including the sexual mores like polygamy, date from pre-Islamic times but Mohammed incorporated them in his religion and so today they are justified by religious citation. Contrast Islam to other religions which called upon mankind to rise above its own worst impulses, whereas Mohammad gave surrender to those impulses validation in the Koran. (You don't love your enemies. You kill them and take their property.) That religious affirmation is what makes advancement difficult. How do women achieve a better status when they are held down by 7th century standards?
undaunted
you're right.
I'm sure Ms Stillwell's 'hate mail bag' (as Mr Spencer calls it) is overflowing right now. She will need positive inflow to balance that - lots of brief, intelligent letters telling her she's right on track.
(Her reference to the 'Yemen Times' article about violence against women, makes me wonder whether she's been quietly lurking at this website).
All she needs to do is 'follow up' and explain that each of the killings - of Aqsa Parvez and of Amina and Sarah - involved the girls being punished for the 'crime' of infringing specific sharia requirements for women.
In Aqsa's case, it's pretty clear she was killed for refusing to 'cover up'.
In Amina and Sarah's case, they were probably killed lest they break the rule that a Muslim woman *must not* marry a non-Muslim man (since they had non-Muslim boyfriends their father would have been terrified that, further down the track, they would marry non-Muslims).
In a way, the murders seem to have been pre-emptive strikes aimed at eliminating girls who might otherwise have become apostates.
"Domestic violence may not be unique to Muslims but what IS unique is their reaction to it."
Posted by: PMK
PMK, you've said a mouthful, there! To quote a well known Muhammedan troll: "Aqsa's will come and go..."
I don't know what makes me angrier--the denials stating "This is not Islam", or the cold indifference to these murders, by the very people who should be the most concerned about them.
No, that's a lie. The latter make me angrier.
as long as Islam exists there will be no peace EVER, for ANYONE. Not even for Muslims.
Even if you read the Bible as an historical document or a novel you will discover there is only one character in it who wants constant conflict with no possible resolution. Satan.
D*mned if I do, d*mned if I don't. That sums it up.
By the way I read all the comments. I'm not sure if it's scientific to take the fact that the number of people on there who get it about Islam were much greater than I expected as a positive sign.
Considering where the paper is I expected many more flaming idiots than there were.
The second sentence is interesting:
Lest it be thought hate crimes are to blame, it is, in fact, their own relatives who are the perpetrators.
What a relief, it wasn't a "hate" crime.
If the Left is going to drag our society into the bottomless pit of criminalizing thought and feelings, and form so dubious, amorphous, and subjective class of crime as hate crime; doesn't it seem that murdering your own children should qualify at least as much as murdering a stranger?
Shame on the cowardly Western "feminists". The way they are acting is as if they were trying to prove the Taliban right in saying that the mental capacity of a female is only half of that of a male.
"Even if you read the Bible as an historical document or a novel you will discover there is only one character in it who wants constant conflict with no possible resolution. Satan."
Great insight and so true. Actually...well, I don't want to say too much. I don't want Dr. Spencer to send this Dumpling into the grease (I'm a *steamed* dumpling, not a fried one) so I will tread carefully here...
I do believe we have the right to do as Scripture teaches us, which is to judge all things "according to their fruits". Having said that, I believe Islam--with its "holy book", its doctrines, the example of its founder, and the actions of its followers--have supplied more than enough "fruits" for me to judge that this religion is satanically influenced. I know, I know...there are good Muslims. And I actually really, truly believe that. I KNOW it. But a good Muslim is one who doesn't know his faith. That's what I have learned. There is only one thing--and one thing only--that I am in agreement with the jihadist on and that is this: the jihadists are the true Muslims.
The Scriptures, the teachings of the Church (I'm a Catholic), and the wisdom of the Christian spiritual masters have taught us a lot about the nature of satan and what satanic influence is and how you can spot it. We only have to put 2 and 2 together once you have all the information.
The funny thing is, I did not always feel this way. Not at all. I admired Muslims. I didn't know anything about Islam but Muslims appeared to me to be faithful, diligent and modest people. I admired their observance of their religious traditions (especially praying 5 times a day. I don't think I have EVER prayed 5 times in one day) and their devotion to their family life. I never had a problem with the head scarf Muslim women wear. I thought it was very modest and attractive. The few things I thought were weird (like the burka) I just wrote off as a cultural thing and not really harming anyone. I was aware of female genital mutilation but I just thought those were backwards crazy people doing that. My entire perspective changed after 9/11 and all the events that have followed since then all around the world. At that time I began to sense a deep forboding, like something was coming and I needed to know what it was. Once you start to investigate Islam this way, you change quickly. It's like opening a Pandora's box.
"Islamic bloodshed will never end until Judgment Day."
It could end a whole lot sooner than that if the liberals and the sympathizers would get their heads out of the clouds.
Enough already. The Muslims know that this happens in their community, they know who perpetrates it and they know why. If it isn't socially acceptable and a common practice, why don't we see more Muslim moms killing their kids or sister's or aunts doing the killing? Why don't we see Muslim moms or aunts or sisters killing their sons, nephews or brothers? Why don't they do this when the males in their families commit rape or murder? Is there no shame in a Muslim boy/man acting on his lust to the detriment of a Muslim or non-Muslim female?
The other thing that I think must be doubly hard for these girls is that they are murdered by the one person or persons who are charged with protecting them in their family, i.e., their dads or their brothers or their uncles. And how does a young girl navigate between the belief that there is more to life than the subjugation of women and a desire to be free and think and act for herself, and her desire to be a good girl who wants to please a dad or brother she loves? How much heartache goes into trying to decide whether to choose her own life or choose the love of her dad? How much of the confusion that goes along with that kind of distress causes a young, inexperienced and probably somewhat sheltered girl to hesitate when her Muslim father or brother won't? And why are Muslim men so ready to kill to cover up their shame?
I think 11B40 is onto something. How much longer are we going to let the young Muslim girls in our midst take the fall for a father, brother or uncle who can't keep his you-know-what in his pants and is so desperate to keep it a secret that he's willing to murder the victim to hide HIS shame?
Earth to Muslim men...we know you are a bunch of sexual perverts and we're on to you. We know your "religion" was designed to allow you to get laid whenever you want ("Muslim wives must be available at a moments notice to satisfy their husband's sexual needs/desires/demands/depradations, etc...") We know it is inequitable between the sexes, that because you are bigger and stronger you can terrorize/threaten/cajole or beat into submission any woman who dares defy your lust. We know how much value you place on marriage when you can add or subtract wives at will, can utter "I divorce you" three times and then your wife is out on the street with no support and without her kids. We know that if you are horny while you are away at school or on a business trip you can commit "temporary marriage" and de-flower a young virgin with a simple contract that lets you divorce her the next day. Have you no shame? I guess the answer is yes, PLENTY, but why give up on a good thing if you can get all the men to agree that if they get caught they can execute a woman to pay for their mistake. Doesn't that make you feel like a piece of dog doo? Doesn't that, in fact, make you a piece of dog doo?
To those beautiful girls who died because their fathers were not real men, I am sick that we were unable to save you. But we are looking for ways to save the next girl and won't stop trying until we find a way. We at least owe that to you.
Silence = Death
Bravo, Ms. Stilwell! Bravo, Jihad Watch!
The arc of history is long and it bends towards justice.
Martin Luther King
Evil always fails. Always.
Mohandas Gandhi
Never submit!
Ever since Stillbreathing posted this link to Amina Said's My Space page on January 2, I've been haunted by these two girls. http://www.myspace.com/semirockerchic
I hear that song by Alicia Keyes everywhere and I can't get these girls off of my mind.
I wouldn't have minded having them for my daughters. In fact, they are not unlike my daughters...same clothes, same smiles, same youthful exuberance and sweet, unaffected expressions, and pretty faces, just like young girls should have. I wish I could have done something to prevent their sad deaths. When I heard Sarah's 911 call, that was all she wrote. Only a beast, who doesn't deserve to have any children, could snuff out a life like that. He deserves nothing less than being sewn in a canvas bag with a wild animal and torn to pieces. Instead, Yaser Said is being wined and dined and, probably, 69'd in his hellhole of origin. I could just scream.
I agree Isabella - their faces still haunt me. My own daughter has her whole life ahead of her. These girls were killed by a sociopathic father. They were born into a system of violence and abuse. This system has no place in our country or any country for that matter.
Isabella,
Probably just dined and nined if that makes you feel any better. Thanks for the link to the MySpace page. That SOB needs to be slowly impaled on a heavily salted pole.
You guys,
Every time I think about them I just burst into tears. A month ago they were still alive. I didn't know they existed but now I do and it's too late.
Everything I do for the rest of my life to eradicate Islam from our world will be for those girls who died, and for my girls who won't live under Islam.
This really bugs me..
I know there was nothing the 911 operater could have done to save the girls lives..
But he had 12 seconds to get;
Her name , and
The location (dads cab).
With that information ..maybe ( and I mean maybe)
The police could have been dispatched,, and maybe (just maybe)
The cab could have been spotted with “dad” still in it.
I don’t understand why, when someone calls and say’s
“I’m dieing..blood all over;”
The guy would say;” Hold on one second...ok..”?
And another thing that is really bugging me..
Did “dad” pump more bullets in Sarah after that call?
It seems to me that “dad” shot the girls, two bullets in each, my guess, got out of cab to wait for them to die, found Sarah alive.and finished her off; maybe explaining all the extra bullets in her body.
This guy is a snake..the whole thing makes me sick.
This 911 call should be posted for the world to hear.
One more thing.. some one had to help “dad” get away..
What he walked?
I think someone was waiting at that spot to pick him up.
Something is fishy here.
Or should I say I smell a rat.
.
911
What’s your emergency?
Sarah
Hi.
. (Excited)
My dad shot me and my sister and now
We’re dieing..We’r dieing!..
911
What’s going on mame?
Sara
(Less excited)
I’m dieing. My blood hover..
911
Ok let me transfer you. Err I’mm (words stumble a bit)
I’m going to get you…get the fire dept. on line.
Hold on one second...ok...
(About 12 seconds pass)
You can hear the car door open and shut.
Sarah
Oh...My God... (Exited ...high pitch voice)
Not again. It’s not over... (Voice gets higher)
STOP IT…errrrr stop it….Errraar (high pitch sounds ...)
Fire dept
Irving fire dept.
Irving fire dept.
911
Mame are you still there?
Sarah
Errrrrrr (high pitch sounds)
911
Mame are you still there?
All I got she’s telling me she’s dieing...
Sarah
errrrrr
(High pitched sounds)
911
Mame what is your address? Mame
12 year old "wife" begs for help to divorce her "husband"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDLb2GuIM3Y
Honour killings in canada by Pakistani background person claiming to be Muslims while perverting it to kill for Allah is not new with the 16 year old killed over the Hijab issue.
Here's a 1999 case where the PC MSM went out of their way to avoid the "M" word or the "I" , yes folks....a 5 year old child had her throat slit and then was hacked up into little pieces to be buried according to islam law in the Quran and the MSM felt that Islam had nothing to do with it.
The actual story link is here and then my copy of it so Muslims can't claim I'm making it up as a Islamophobe.
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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1075922437912_71331637/?hub=Canada
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Farah Khan's father changed story, court hears
Updated Thu. Feb. 5 2004 8:36 AM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
Jurors in Toronto watched some startling evidence in the murder trial of a five-year old girl on Wednesday -- video of her father telling police how he decided to dismember and dispose of his daughter's remains.
The 1999 murder of Farah Khan shocked the city when her dismembered remains were found in plastic bags in two waterfront parks.
The girl's father, Mohammed Khan, 40, and her stepmother, Kaneez Fatima, 49, have been charged with first-degree murder.
With the trial underway Wednesday, jurors were shown the video of Mohammad Khan's first interrogation by police. In it, he insists he didn't murder Farah, suggesting instead his daughter committed suicide.
"They came back and found that she had cut her neck with a knife and she was wiggling around with her neck cut and just as quickly she died," he said in Urdu.
For most of the four-hour interview, he portrays himself as a victim whose life is ruined by the untimely death of his little girl.
"I am ruined, I have no one," he says. "I don't understand what trouble Allah has put me in. By God, I am not a criminal. Get me pardoned somehow. I don't understand what I'm getting punished for."
But as jurors watched the video play on three giant video screens in the courtroom, they heard the accused father change his tune.
Khan tells his interrogators he was so frightened he might be blamed for the death he took a drastic next step.
"If somebody would see him he would be in trouble so he, it came to him to cut the body up, so he cut it up and put the pieces away and he buried the head religiously the way he's supposed to," Khan's translator can be heard saying.
Khan then offers to take investigators to Farah's remains quietly, secretly, as long as the media doesn't know that he's involved.
Khan's defence says he killed Farah unintentionally and is therefore guilty of the lesser but included offence of manslaughter. Fatima's lawyer alleges his client is innocent and Khan killed Farah alone and silenced his wife with threats.
The Crown alleges Fatima helped Khan murder, decapitate and dismember his daughter because he believed she was his first wife's child by another man.
In earlier testimony, the court heard how Khan became angry with his daughter when she kept asking him to buy her a $10 set of school photographs. He erupted in a fit of rage, chasing her around their apartment and clubbing her with a rolling pin.
Khan's limbs were found in three garbage bags hidden in rocks at a Toronto park, on Dec. 7, 1999. A woman out walking her dog uncovered the bags after she saw two people trying to hide something.
The child's head was found in another park shortly after the couple was arrested but her torso has never been found.
Results of an autopsy on the limbs show the girl had severe recent bruises on her legs, indicating physical abuse.
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Now we have the Parvez Honour killing because in 1999 right up to 2004 the media and Politicians filed this murder under "Multiculturalism" as a non-Islamic domestic violence , oddly though CAIR-Canada was quick to denouce the current murder as having any tie to Sharia and yet the Farah Khan case had very little from CAIR Canada because the Media enabled the Sharia By-proxy with the overt silence to report on the Elephant in the room with the Hijab and Sharaih law written all over it.
The reports have snippets of details and it is the sickest and most twisted overt murder case i can remember because usually killers of any human either boast about it at first with a reason for why they killed , or deny it until it's too late and then play the Victim infront of the Judge and Jury .
BTW, both of the Terrorists cells caught in Canada befor they could "go-Jihad" were linked to Pakistan but the media still won't touch it for fear of a Theo van Gogh revenge attack or TV Studio suicide bomber .
Ezra levant was the only canadian with the guts to defend us from Creeping-Sharia from Whahabi Imams wanting a Caliphate for canada ruled by Sharia.
BTW , I often found time for a dark-humour joke with many murder cases based on the media reports , but this one may have even left Howard Stern speechless as it did for me.
To compound Canadas problems over our Liberal murder laws we actually allow every lawyer to coach any killer to plead Innocent and force the State spend $$$Millions until it become useless to go further because they can get Parole after 15 years no matter how bad the Murders are .
People used to admit to mistakes and ask for a light sentence based on a good background , but now killers are enabled to murder more people under the "Innocent" banner and Legal costs to the State since we also have Legal-Aid to help this porr victims of Poverty and Injustice .