Over at Breitbart, my AFDI colleague Pamela Geller explains what happened when we tried to help girls threatened by honor killing in Canada: “In Canada, Defending Girls from Islamic Honor Killings Is ‘Racist,'” by Pamela Geller, Breitbart, July 7, 2014:
In Canada today, helping Muslim girls is “racist.” Edmonton Transit last year caved in to Islamic supremacist demands and took down bus ads sponsored by my organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), offering help to Muslim girls who were living in fear of honor killing. But we are fighting back. We’ve initiated a court action to defend free speech – which is supposed to be protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Nowadays it seems increasingly in both the U.S. and Canada that free speech is only allowed to those whose positions are popular. But the whole purpose of free speech, the foundation of any free society, is to protect people who tell unpopular but necessary truths. If any group has the power to censor messages it doesn’t like, society is no longer free.
The Canadian media certainly hate our message of hope and freedom. The media in Canada called our ads “dishonorable,” “controversial,” and, above all, “racist.” It’s “dishonorable” and “controversial” and “racist” to save lives? Under the Sharia, yes, it is. And so in Edmonton, Sikh Councillor Amarjeet Sohi, who should know better than to carry water for the Islamic supremacists who oppressed his people for centuries, ordered officials to take down our ads immediately. They complied – even though vicious blood libels against Israel are just fine and have run on transit systems across Canada.
Apparently Muslims complained about our ads. Why? Is this how the Canadian Muslim community responds to the desperate circumstances of Muslim girls living in devout Muslim homes? They deny, obfuscate, and dissemble. The Muslim community protects the idea of honor in Islam, while smearing and libeling as “racists” the truth tellers coming to the aid of these girls.
Honor killing is a grim reality that is largely ignored, and girls are suffering as a result. In Canada in 2007, 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez was strangled to death by her father and brother for refusing to wear hijab. And two years later, Mohammad Shafia murdered his first wife and three daughters in an another honor killing. Our ad depicted “Muslim Girls Honor Killed By Their Families,” with photos of Aqsa and six other honor killing victims. It read: “Is your family threatening you? Is there a fatwa on your head? We can help: go to FightforFreedom.us.”
That’s objectionable?
In cases of honor killings, Muslim fathers kill their daughters for real or imagined sexual indiscretions that have supposedly dishonored the family. Nothing is done because political correctness prevents us from speaking about the problem honestly. Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide,and Islamic law stipulates no penalty for a parent who kills his child.
Honor violence, honor murder, is not just a tribal custom; it’s Islamic law. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.” However, “not subject to retaliation” is “a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring” (‘Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2). This is effectively saying that a Muslim father who kills his child for “honor” faces no legal penalty under Islamic law.
It is imperative that we identify why honor killings happen: “Why does it matter that the practice of honor killing has Islamic sanction?” writes Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch. “Because if the roots of honor killing are never discussed and always ignored, the practice will never stop. Until the Islamic roots of the practice are discussed openly and human rights groups begin calling for reform, honor killings will continue in the Islamic world – and in Muslim communities in the West.”
Girls threatened with honor killing need and deserve protection. The horror of honor killings is given the imprimatur of the West by the enemedia’s complicit silence and the government’s unwillingness to say a critical word about Sharia, no matter how savagely it is applied anywhere in the world. The media goes to extraordinary lengths to whitewash these crimes and disconnect the Islamic motive from these murders. The “feminists” look away and pretend that it is outside the realm of women’s rights. They are shills for Islam. Shame on all of you for failing women, children, and girls worldwide.
AFDI’s new honor-killing awareness campaign was designed to help young girls living in fear of the Islamic honor code.
We are not giving up. We are challenging their decision in Edmonton and will run the ads elsewhere in Canada. The fact that Islamic supremacist groups are so threatened by these ads shows how desperately they are needed. Clearly we struck a nerve; these Muslim groups don’t want people speaking out against honor killing, so we have to speak out louder than ever.
Please help us. We have to make a stand. Please donate via PayPal. The American Freedom Defense Initiative is a 501c3 organization, and your contribution is tax deductible. We can’t do it without your help. Remember: what happens in Canada will soon enough happen in the U.S. Canada is just farther down the same road we are on, the road of appeasement and capitulation to Islamic supremacists.

Jaladhi says
Muslims commit 100% of honor killings in the world!! Only they have this wierd notion of “honor” that they kill their on daughters and wives to save their honor. In fact Muslims have no honor and they do nothing honorable in their lives!! This should be spoken boldly all over the world and maybe then they will understand what is honor and morality of real human beings!!
Reality Check says
I read somewhere that some of the time Muslim daughters are killed so that they don’t claim a portion of the family inheritance – in other words, the reason might well be pure greed masked by righteous indignation.
May all the poor innocent women who died that way rest in piece.
RC
john spielman says
this is because Islam’s ” prefect man” that old dead rotted corpse, formerly known as Muhammed, was a outspoken demon possessed misogynist and pedophile
Jay Boo says
Now, Now let’s be fair.
The word ‘fatwa’ on the sign clearly reveals this is about Muslims and Muslims do not commit 100 % of honor killings. It is probably only around a mere 95 %.
Why not just say “Are you being threatened by an honor killing?”. No one could claim that is exclusively anti-Islamic since Muslims do not commit exactly 100 % of honor killings.
Then let them protest and remind the world who is doing these honor killings as if we don’t already know.
Shane says
Actually, it is about 91%, I think Hindus might do some of the honor killings. It’s a shame that traitorous liberal dhimmis don’t see what an evil religion Islam is and try to help some young Muslim girls escape murder.
AnneM says
Not surprised. Islam treated women in a very bad way.
BW022 says
The only thing objectionable in the ad is the fact you spelled “honour” without a “u”.
John C. Barile says
You probably know that, thus spelled, this is standard American English usage.
girigirihanasu says
But the ad was placed in Canada, where the correct spelling is “honour”.
Jay Boo says
This might be one of those words where both the British form and the American English are acceptable even if it were use on an US sign.
Jay Boo says
BTW
“But the ad was placed in Canada,”
Good point
Reality Check says
The only thing objectionable in your post is the fact that you don’t know Canada still uses the British spelling.
pdxnag says
These shame killings are terrorist acts. The target of the terror here are those Muslims who remain alive but within striking distance of other Muslims, predominantly Muslim man on Muslim woman terror and violence. It is hard NOT to label membership in (with mutually exclusive citizenship loyalty) the Islamic Ummah as much the same thing as membership in a violent gang, at least for Muslim males. The shame killing of family members is just one facet, but one which should also be a giant clue bat that non-Muslims should never expect any better treatment or respect from Muslims than what Muslim men accord Muslim women.
bernie says
If Mohammad Shafia were smart, he’d argue that it was racist that he was convicted of multiple murders in the first place, and that it’s racist he is in prison. After all, he was only following Islamic law in his view, and it should trump infidel, secular, Judeo-Christian based Canadian law.
Shane says
Yes, Muslims are also allowed to kill apostates, adulterers, and those who preach another religion to Muslims. Muhammad sure liked killing people.
Jay Boo says
Honor Killing
This snake sheds its skin;
yet its fangs still shine in crescent light.
It comes not to embrace but to smother and bite.
This serpent feeds on each futile plea.
It may shed its dead skin, but it is still much the same within.
Islam creeps from the shadows of flaunted humility.
Its vanity is not shamed by hideous screams.
Islam is not about God or compassion or mercy.
Islam slithers plotting death and deceit.
It crawls out of its disgrace, the Quran and Hadith.
Islam seeks submission; shine a light in the dark,
or rest in peace.
Slobbering Fits says
I dont have much problem with muslims killing muslim women since they are the source of more muslims.
pdxnag says
The ones they want to kill are the ones worth saving, for they have likely embraced the West and individual freedom.
Oliver says
I agree 100% with you.
The ones who argue that the women killed are westernized- they are still Muslims.
A while back (not on JW, as far as I know) a Muslim in Israel had acid thrown in her face, because she did something to “dishonor” the family. Israeli (Jewish) doctors treated her; gave her skin grafts, etc.
AND THE REWARD FROM THIS BITCH?/ SHE TRIED TO BLOW THE PLACE UP, ( the medical treatment facility) so to KILL JEWS.
I agree, as I said. Let them kill more of their women, especially those of child bearing age.
mark says
Don’t forget the Muslim man who killed his daughter in Quebec recently and got little, perhaps no, punishment for it. Canada is close to leading the way on political correctness and censure.
Juan Eduardos says
Many young Muslim girls have the doors taken off their bedroom when they reach a certain age. They are not permitted to attend many functions that are not Islamic, like even going to the movies with a white friend from school is forbidden.
My best friend is a Muslim who claims he does not believe in Sharia Law and the Quran, although he attends a mosque every week with his carpet. I think he is afraid not to go, I’m sure he and his family would be punished if they tried to leave the Islamic faith. Despite my friendship with a Muslim, I’d like to see all Muslim immigration to Canada be stopped, we never know which are the radicals who want to take control of our government and introduce Sharia Law.
Mstislav88 says
Please consider running your ads in Toronto and the GTA in the near future. You might also want to take into consideration running them on the GO transit system as well.
Paddy O'Connor says
During the furor over pulling the adds I, sitting up front, overheard 2 Edmonton bus drivers discus the issue,- the jist of the conversation was that 4 or 5 Muslim drivers had threatened to book off if the adds were not pulled. So the real issue was whether ETS was to lose or not to lose revenue.
Paddy
john van vliet says
The sad thing is that 95% of the people in Edmonton don’t know anything about Islam, the muslims have and operate a number of mosque and have a huge Islamic school, with strict dress codes for girls, the population of muslims is growing in Alberta and I thought several years ago sooner or later they will start to influence society. They are not integrating for that is not allowed under islam and have no non muslim friends, not allowed under islam. it si a society in a society and they will start to take control where they can……
Freedom is not a word that is in the quoran, which includes freedom of expression and speech, so we see the beginning of the struggle and it will be to late if we are being dictated by muslims in regards to our freedoms, if they don’t like it…..wel go back where you came from, but do not bring your brand of violence and false ideology to Edmonton or Canada.
Ted Gilbert says
Don’t blame all of Canada for what some provinces are doing. Isn’t New York going to allow or has already allowed Muslim’s to build a mosque on or very near ground zero? Won’t that bring a laugh to the Muslim community. AND not all muslim’s believe in honour killings but fear prevents them from speaking out. It is Islam you should be afraid of not muslims.
Oliver says
The Mosque at Groound Zero is ( alst i saw) jsut about dead. EVEN the King of Saudi Arabia WAS AGAINST IT. ( caps to empasize). he was reported to have offered $100,000,000 (one hundred million US Dolalrs) to build elsewhere.
And the developer (source- recent-sorry, for got which one) issue of a commercial real estate magazine ahd the (would be) developer/builder of the Ground Zero Mosque was going to build a commercial building in the NYC garment district AND IN THE BUILDING WOULD BE A SYNAGOGUE.
(he- the developer-was at one time a leading slumlord in New Jersey) ( that was in real esatte prublications, at that time, ).
Liza says
I was horrified to hear on the radio that ETS had cancelled this ad but did not follow through with contacting the company to express my disapproval of this decision. I have been an educator for many years and have been made aware of instances of spousal abuse and possibly female genital mutilation among sub-Saharan immigrants. I will contact ETS in the next few days to protest . I will also start lobbying against Muslim immigration to Canada. The city of Calgary has become a little breeding ground for second-generation Islamic jihadis. Fundamentalist Islamic ideology is retrograde., but in the growth medium of an open society, it is easy for it to take root. Creeping Sharia does not bode well for Canada’s future as a free and democratic society.