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Pakistan: Canadian woman who converted to Islam strangled to death in honor killing

Jan 19, 2019 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but “the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour ‘provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.’” And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that “Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.”

Until the encouragement Islamic law gives to honor killing is acknowledged and confronted, more women will suffer.

“Canadian Islam convert strangled in honour killing: Cops,” by Brad Hunter, Toronto Sun, January 18, 2019 (thanks to M.):

A Canadian woman who converted to Islam was murdered in an honour killing investigators say was made to look like a suicide.

According to Pakistan’s Express News, Safia Nasir, 40, was killed sometime over the past week.

So far, it isn’t known what her pre-conversion name was or where she was from in Canada. She reportedly married a man from Pakistan and lived with him in the Samnabad area.

What is known is that she converted a number of years ago and had a nine-month-old child.

Cops were called and told that Nasir had committed suicide by hanging.

By the time police arrived, Nasir was already dead. Detectives quickly ascertained that her death was not a suicide as they had been told.

Instead, it’s believed she was strangled with a noose and then strung up to make her death appear to be a suicide.

Honour killings are an issue that Pakistan has struggled with.

Last May, cops determined that Pakistani-Italian Sana Cheema, 26, did not die a natural death.

Italian-Pakistani woman Sana Cheema was murdered in an honour killing last May. Her father, upper right, a brother and an uncle are charged with her murder.

Instead, an autopsy revealed that she had been strangled to death — even though her family claimed Cheema had died of natural causes….

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  1. cornelius says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 1:07 pm

    My own lame attempt to raise public awareness about the issue of honor killings…..

    • Istanbul_Chick says

      Jan 19, 2019 at 1:23 pm

      Very nice and not lame at all.

      • Michael Copeland says

        Jan 19, 2019 at 3:59 pm

        Hear hear.

    • eduardo odraude says

      Jan 19, 2019 at 1:43 pm

      Excellent.

      I would change one line though: “it was religion that took you away.” That should be “It was Islam that took you away.” Or use some other line. But not a line about “religion.” Over 90% of honor killings are committed by Muslims. Not by Christians, Jew, Hindus, or Buddhists.

      • Michael Copeland says

        Jan 19, 2019 at 3:58 pm

        Sharia would scan.

      • cornelius says

        Jan 19, 2019 at 11:47 pm

        Friend….believe it or not, the original line was indeed that “It was Islam that took you away”. But I had the strong expectation it wouldn’t survive the Youtube censors, so I changed it. Another example of the self-censorship that the Left has succeeded in frightening everyone into.

        • KWJ says

          Jan 20, 2019 at 11:24 pm

          There are tons of videos that say worse than Islam was a reason for the honor killing. When you self-censor it’s like giving into terrorists. YT either slaps on an age restriction or at worst takes down the video and you make a new one, that is if they even see it. Also, you can dispute any take-down. If Islam perpetuates honor killings and Islamic countries such as Pakistan look the other way and few are prosecuted, it’s a reasonable statement. It isn’t right to say “religion” when all religions do not sanction or perpetuate honor killing.

          Heck, Robert is banned from an entire country. No quietly submitting.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 19, 2019 at 4:12 pm

      Thank you for posting “Amina and Sarah”, Cornelius. You are very talented, and this is all too apt here.

      • cornelius says

        Jan 19, 2019 at 11:49 pm

        Thank you Graven…for your support.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 20, 2019 at 7:00 pm

          Thank you, Cornelius.

          And I hope you don’t mind if I post your tribute to Robert Spencer here:

          “Robert Spencer, Here’s to You”

          https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/04/robert-spencer-heres-to-you

    • somehistory says

      Jan 20, 2019 at 12:00 am

      cornelius,

      Very well done. Their story was so sad, so horrible and the murderer escaped.
      I hope your song, explaining their short life in few but heartfelt words, has a wide audience. These two young ladies have not been forgotten.

      • WPM says

        Jan 20, 2019 at 1:09 pm

        Very nice song ,Islam is a horror that Western leaders in the government, Western churches do not to talk about, they want to swept it under the rug and not talk about. It is institutionalist child abuse ,female abuse, spouse abuse, racism , supremist , though police , Nazi book burning ,all rolled into one. It is the perfect storm that embraces all human short comings ,lust ,greed ,violence ,envy, pride, lying to advance your “cause” as human virtues

    • Carol the 1st says

      Jan 20, 2019 at 7:44 pm

      My compliments, Cornelius. Very nice (although it could use an onscreen page with lifespan dates). We should look for opportunities to send your song to whoever needs direct statements.

      • Carol the 1st says

        Jan 20, 2019 at 7:49 pm

        Women as “punching bags”…hmmm…is that the logical rage outlet, result, or compensation for lives lived with programmed, dysfunctional minds and consequently deeply disturbed emotions?

        • Carol the 1st says

          Jan 20, 2019 at 8:04 pm

          This article fills in a lot of the blanks:
          https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3131595/Texas-women-17-18-brutally-murdered-father-s-taxi-victims-honor-killings.html

  2. Mac-101 says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 1:16 pm

    Hate to sound callous, but play stupid games, win stupid prizes!

  3. Jaladhi says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 1:28 pm

    Why would any one convert to this evil religion?

  4. Indiana Tom says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 1:36 pm

    So are the Pink Pussy Hat girls marching in Pakistan?

    • Steve says

      Jan 19, 2019 at 2:31 pm

      Whenever they try, they disappear.

    • tgusa says

      Jan 19, 2019 at 5:44 pm

      The pussy hat wearing white male hating western women that have gained all of the rights they now enjoy while living among a predominantly white male culture should immediately surrender all rights that they have obtained as a result of that. The disrespect that they are showing should result in banishment from the horrible culture that they so obviously hate. I say, good bye and good riddance, we don’t need them.

  5. eduardo odraude says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 1:37 pm

    Excellent short video by Paul Joseph Watson on the various people whose naivete and cultural relativism has gotten them killed in the Muslim world:

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 19, 2019 at 4:12 pm

      Thanks for the link.

  6. Beverly says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 1:42 pm

    I guess murdering your female family members is considered a ‘value’ in Islam.

  7. Prof Frink says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 2:37 pm

    Hi, I’m a fellow WP publisher. Just wondering how you go about embedding YouTube videos into comments. You guidance would be much appreciated. Thank you.

    • Carol the 1st says

      Jan 20, 2019 at 6:51 pm

      Prof Frink…I hope you’re not “pulling everyone’s leg”, and I hope Mr. Spencer won’t frown on my assisting you with this “Word Processing” question, but I’ve seen this question before and so here goes:

      Since posters like to add the video TITLE in addition to the URL (Universal Resource Locator – up in the Address bar) this is how you’d begin if you use a desktop keyboard (laptop’s quite similar):

      1/ Start your Reply in the Jihad Watch Reply box and leave it open and then click a free Windows Tab on top and proceed to pull up the YouTube video you wish to insert in your unfinished JW post.
      2/ Once you find the video you want to insert in your post you’d start by “Blocking” its title (your cursor usually shows as an Arrow but once it reaches a spot on a page where there’s the ability to do functions like BLOCK, DRAG, COPY, MOVE etc. the cursor turns into what’s called an “I” bar.) Move this I-bar to exactly where the title starts and Right Click (RC) but keep your finger pressed down. Now DRAG across (you’ll see things being shaded or “blocked” in back); When you reach the end point quickly release your finger (keep trying if you goof).
      3/ Now move your cursor/I-bar back into this Blocked area, then stop and do a LEFT CLICK (LC). This will result in a Drop-down box (called a “Contextual menu” as these vary with whatever actions are available due to your activity) One option you’ll be offered in this case is to COPY. RC this option and your shaded block will then be captured and now you can take it back and PASTE it to your JW post).
      4/ Reopen the tab that holds the Window with your unfinished JW posting box. Go to the spot in that box where you wish to place the title and secure/fasten your Arrow cursor there (just RC). Hover over it and now you Left Click and this will result in you seeing a different drop-down, contextual menu. One choice offered will be to PASTE. Right Click it and your Title will now show. Voila!
      5/ Now go back to the previous Window with your video and go into the Address bar at top and capture the URL address in the same way and bring it over to the other window etc.Once you’ve placed it and it appears then click a clear space to lock and complete your action before moving on.
      6/ Now you can either add further comments or simply send your post by clicking the Post Comment button.

      Let me know if you get back to read this lengthy reply etc.

      • Carol the 1st says

        Jan 20, 2019 at 8:22 pm

        Prof Frink…another senior moment! Replace Right clicks with Left clicks and Left clicks with Right ones (it will work much better). I’ll master this one of these days!

  8. gravenimage says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 4:04 pm

    Pakistan: Canadian woman who converted to Islam strangled to death in honor killing
    ………………..

    Horrifying–this poor woman. But who can be surprised by this?

    Where is her child? Will the child be raised by its mother’s murderer, or go to her Canadian relatives? I pray the latter.

  9. Swatter Hayes says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 4:10 pm

    Muslims must protect the religion at all costs even if it means killing family members. When cutting the allowance, beatings and sequestering the female does not work the only thing left is strangulation.

  10. No Muzzies Here says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 4:37 pm

    This is what happens when you abandon civilization and join an organization that is dedicated to propagating itself by violence. You aren’t converting to a religion. You are going back 1300 years to pre-civilization days.

    Once you are there, you cannot possibly fit in to a modern civilization and are forever destined to act like, and be treated like a barbarian.

  11. abad says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 5:31 pm

    Can one of the liberals on JW please tell me exactly how Islam is liberating for my gender?

    TIA

    • David Pimentel says

      Jan 20, 2019 at 6:18 am

      All I hear are crickets in response.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 20, 2019 at 7:05 pm

      I’m liberal in that I believe in equal rights for women–and Islam is savagery misogynistic.

    • Carol the 1st says

      Jan 20, 2019 at 7:09 pm

      In most cases it seems you latch onto some prince and thus are somehow “liberated” from finding honest work and carrying your own weight in the world. Your only worthy role is viewed as a baby-maker anyway and so you’re likely safe and secure until said prince fancies saying “divorce” three times.

      • Carol the 1st says

        Jan 20, 2019 at 7:12 pm

        It’s kind of a parasitical role and it creates more jihadis who can parasite on other nations in the never-ending Islamic version of THE CIRCLE OF LIFE (Lion King music please)>

  12. tgusa says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 5:52 pm

    Just one more on the long list of female leftist Darwin award winners.

  13. somehistory says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 6:30 pm

    Never moslims and ex moslims should not refer to these as “honor” killings. In print and speech, they should be called what they are: murder.

    Some years ago in the U.S., in Tampa, Fl, if my memory is correct, a moslim woman died of massive blunt trauma to her skull. Her family claimed she had committed suicide by hitting her head repeatedly on the corner of a coffee table.

    Police investigators and forensic specialists can determine if a death is homocide or suicide or if the death is from “natural causes” or accidental. But, they have to want to determine this. If moslims are involved and other moslims wish to protect them, the truth may never be revealed.

    Women should never marry moslims and should never convert to this evil cult of demonic practice and early death if they wish to go on living.
    I feel great pity for the young baby she left behind and if her family gets away with murdering her, the baby will suffer even more.

  14. European pagan says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 6:33 pm

    It will never happen if you don’t..

    1. … convert to islam
    2. … move to Pakistan
    3. …. marry a paki muslim.

    But now it is too late.

    • WPM says

      Jan 20, 2019 at 12:39 pm

      Marry a Moslem man puts a women on a much shorter life span grouping, it is a lot people who perform jackass dare devil stunts they often end up hurt or dead .She performed three bad moves to put her in this “lifestyle bracket” that ended her life number one was marrying a Moslem man ,number two converting to the religion that puts women in the status of sub-human, area of male property like cars, pet animals, ect. Then moving to third world Islamic sh*thole were violence , rape , slavery, daily beatings are a normal part of accepted “lifestyle choice” for the husband wife relationship. Honor killing in Sh*tholestan is I am sure is treated as parking tickets are treated in Western world cities pay the fine and move on. I think of this as American women embrace their “female Moslem congresswoman” and Linda Sansour Islamic friend of progressives in marches this week end for equal rights of women .

  15. mortimer says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 9:40 pm

    Immediately after his election victory, new PM Iran Khan promised to ENFORCE EQUALITY BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN IN PAKISTAN.

    I guess IMRAN KHAN was talking through his hat.

    He won’t do anything about HONOR KILLING, will he? Honor killing is PERFECTLY ISLAM, isn’t it?

  16. cornelius says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 11:43 pm

    Thanks Graven. You’ve always been very supportive.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 20, 2019 at 7:08 pm

      +1

  17. Ashley says

    Jan 20, 2019 at 10:33 am

    A Canadian woman who converted to Islam was murdered in an honour killing investigators say was made to look like a suicide.
    ———————————
    Glad investigators were able to determine that Safia Nasir had been murdered but how did they reach the conclusion that her death was an honor killing? Did somebody confess? Has there been an arrest? Had she dishonored her spouse, her family? Did she indicate that she was fearful for her safety?

    I’m just curious how Safia’s death was ruled as an honor killing…

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 20, 2019 at 7:11 pm

      Ashley, if she was show to have been strangled, then family members set up a fake hanging, then I’d say this is pretty much proof that it was an honor killing.

      If she were, say, killed in a robbery, the killer would not have set up a fake hanging.

      • Carol the 1st says

        Jan 20, 2019 at 7:28 pm

        Poisoning seems to be a favoured “suicide” method. This leads to a silly thought (or is it?) – the woman being pushed to this “solution” should deliberately bite her tongue (place it between the teeth if necessary and punch yourself in the chin). It would leave kind of a bloody pointer.

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