Learned analysts are doubting Rifqa Bary's story -- the teenage girl who says her Muslim father threatened to kill her for converting to Christianity. Here is a similar case that buttresses Rifqa's credibility.
"Crown wants taxi union boss jailed for ‘honour crime,’" by Andrew Seymour for The Ottawa Citizen, August 14 (thanks to Heart of a Lioness):
OTTAWA — Crown prosecutors are seeking to send the head of Ottawa’s taxi union to jail for up to two years, alleging that a campaign of threatening and intimidating behaviour directed toward his daughter after she turned her back on the family’s Muslim beliefs was an honour crime.Yusef Al Mezel’s threat of an honour killing was designed to “control and dominate” his then-23-year-old daughter, Eman Al Mezel, by suggesting she had brought shame upon her family that would be met with violent consequences, assistant Crown attorney James Cavanagh argued during a sentencing hearing Thursday.
Al Mezel, who pleaded guilty to criminal harassment last September, was trying to deny his daughter “every basic freedom as to how she could live her life,” Cavanagh said, the result of an “underlying notion of patriarchal dominance” based on a “perverted and archaic belief in family honour.”
“When she wouldn’t bend to his will ... he raised the spectre of violence in the name of honour to scare her into complying with his wishes,” said Cavanagh, who urged Ontario Superior Court Justice Lynn Ratushny to sentence the 44-year-old president of the Canadian Autoworkers Local 1688 to 18 to 24 months behind bars.
Al Mezel admitted he repeatedly called, wrote, followed and visited the residences of Eman Al Mezel in July 2007 in an attempt to get his daughter to return home after a violent incident where he pushed her into a flight of stairs and threatened to break her legs and kill her before smashing her computer.
Addressing the court, Al Mezel said hearing the prosecutor’s allegations that he committed an honour crime was like “listening to evil from another world.”
“It is not my world,” Al Mezel told the judge, adding that the Crown’s accusations that he would commit such an act were being cast with a “broad brush” and left him and his reputation tainted with “very ugly paint.”
“What I hear today is something I never lived in, something I never believed in,” he said....
Of course not!
In one of the e-mails, Al Mezel tells his daughter, who was living with a male friend and his family, that they could no longer “hide the problem” from her uncles and cousins and that he could not guarantee the “safety of anyone” if she didn’t return home.“Eman, you know when everyone hear about, they will react crazy, and no one will care about police or other thing, you know your family,” read the e-mail.
“Please Eman, help to solve it without harm to any one. You should care about the family you live with, you don’t want your uncles and cousins at the door of the apartment, please we don’t need more problems.”
In the message, he wrote of “the Sharaf of the family,” which Eman Al Mezel later explained to police was the belief that because she had run away from home and shed her hijab and Muslim beliefs, she had “shamed and dishonoured her family.” At the time, her father was also arranging to have her married to a Syrian man she didn’t want to marry.
The only way to restore the family’s honour, according to Eman Al Mezel, would have been to kill her, an act usually carried out by the father or uncles.
Court heard Eman Al Mezel and the family she had been staying with were moved out of Ottawa by police over concerns for their safety and have never returned.
Al Mezel insisted he was concerned about a daughter he loves and “absolutely” didn’t mean what he wrote....
Of course not!
It appears that the comments made to this story, while we were still over at IntDeb, have been wiped.
I shall, however, restore them, or most of them. This is the discussion, as preserved by me. I will re-post it in two sections.
MADMADMADWORLD (quoting) "It is not my world,” Al Mezel told the judge..."
- Which is exactly why Islam and it's adherents don't belong in ours. They simply are totally incompatible.
TANSTAAFL (quoting) - "Court heard Eman Al Mezel and the family she had been staying with were moved out of Ottawa by police over concerns for their safety and have never returned."
- See, Eman is over 18 and can flee an abusive situation.
- Rifqa Bary is under 18 and can be subjected to our system of "keeping the family together". This simply allows abused children to be ordered into the custody of their abusers. If she is returned to her "loving" family in Ohio, she will be killed.
PULSAR (quoting) - "In the message, he wrote of “the Sharaf of the family,” which Eman Al Mezel later explained to police was the belief that because she had run away from home and shed her hijab and Muslim beliefs, she had “shamed and dishonoured her family.” At the time, her father was also arranging to have her married to a Syrian man she didn’t want to marry.
The only way to restore the family’s honour, according to Eman Al Mezel, would have been to kill her, an act usually carried out by the father or uncles."
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/videos/108/the-...
DDA wrote - I hope that she and her host family have 1. obtained firearms and learnt how to safely carry and accurately use same 2. signed up for serious unarmed combat/ self defence lessons 3. acquired a couple of very large dogs - Huskies would be nice - do you get black Huskies?
-SORROW suggested - English Mastiffs;)
Part two of our previous - now vanished from archives? - discussion of the posted article about the Canadian Muslim who threatened to kill his daughter.
DDA wrote - Comment to 'Canada: Muslim threatened to kill his daughter after she 'turned her back' on Islam".
From the article - "Court heard Eman Al Mezel and the family she had been staying with were moved out of Ottawa by police over concerns for their safety and have never returned."
What *should* appear in a Canadian newspaper, in a couple of years' time - "On [such and such a date] Yusuf Al Mezel having completed his jail term of two years, was formally and publicly stripped of his Canadian citizenship and deported permanently from Canada to [location], together with his brothers and cousins and male nephews, and with all their dependents, because of the clear, present and permanent danger that all these persons represent for ex-Muslim Emen, her boyfriend and her boyfriend's family."
-SUPRKUFR told DDA - Dream on; our illustrious supreme court will probably overturn his conviction and award him damages for having been stereotyped.
-DDA replied to SK - Maybe. But I'm still saying, out loud, as plainly as possible, that this evil man and the other men who would assist him in killing the girl, should be deported.
Because I don't know who reads here, quietly, without ever letting us know they're there.
Perhaps a journalist, a politician's aide, a policeman, a young lawyer, *someone*, may read those words, now or in the future, and then the idea - that Muslims who plan or carry out a pride murder (the ritual murder of a young woman for the 'crime' of daring to leave Islam, daring to go against the practices of Islam, daring to 'disobey' the despotic will of her male kin) should not be permitted to remain in free majority-nonmuslim countries - will enter their heads, and stick there, like a burr.
SUSANP wrote - The "learned" islamic analysts in America consist of lying islamic clerics and politically correct, useful idiot academics. When are the people we pay to protect us going to do their jobs and learn the truth about islam, and then do something about the five million muslims we have stupidly allowed to invade our country? When will the news media do their jobs and report the truth about islam instead of the palliative, feel good, human interest crap they call "news", like "why do muslimas wear hijabs" and "jihad means personal struggle".
But what am I thinking?! If 9/11 wasn't enough to ditch the facade and the multicultural mantras, nothing will be enough. I guess we're going to play and pretend forever that islam is "just a religion" like Christianity and muslims are normal, harmless people who are wrongly persecuted by racist Americans. Denial is such a useless state of mind. It does not provide real comfort or security and it will never evolve into anything positive. The people who are supposed to make it their business to identify and understand our enemies are either clueless, liars, or constrained by cultural Marxism. Considering what's at stake, that is unconscionable.
MICHAELTRAVIS wrote - I have friends in Canada, young ex-Shiites, now Christians who are in a similar situation, and it breaks my heart.
BLOWNAWAY wrote - I have to wonder how many pride murders have really gone on in Canada. How many young women suddenly packed their bags and went home never to return.
This girl should head down to the firing range ASAP.