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Canada: Muslima convicted in honor killing of three girls gets escorted absence from prison for humanitarian reasons

Dec 16, 2019 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

“The Parole Board of Canada says it approved Tooba Yahya’s request ‘for humanitarian and compassionate reasons.'”

Is there any compassion for Zainab, Sahar, and Geeti? Or would that be “Islamophobic”?

“Mother convicted in Shafia daughters’ canal killings granted 5-hour escorted absence from prison,” by Colin Harris, CBC News, December 13, 2019:

The woman convicted for her role in the so-called honour killings of her three daughters and her husband’s first wife a decade ago has been granted an escorted temporary absence from prison to visit her mother’s grave.

The Parole Board of Canada says it approved Tooba Yahya’s request “for humanitarian and compassionate reasons,” because her risk of recidivism is low and because the security risk that the absence poses is “manageable.”

Yahya, along with her husband, Mohammad Shafia, and son Hamed, were found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder in Kingston, Ont., in January 2012 in a court case that attracted international attention.

The bodies of the three Shafia daughters — Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13 — and Shafia’s first wife, Rona Mohammad Amir, were found in the family’s car, submerged in a lock on the Rideau Canal in Kingston on June 30, 2009.

The family, originally from Afghanistan, had moved to Montreal two years earlier.

The judge said the murders were committed in the name of a “notion of honour that is founded upon the domination and control of women, a sick notion of honour that has absolutely no place in any civilized society.”

The jury heard that Shafia was furious with how his daughters dressed and behaved. Jurors heard recordings made after their deaths, where the girls’ father called them “treacherous” and “whores.”

Entries from Amir’s diary were also presented during the trial, in which she wrote that Yahya “took the power of the household” from her and that Yahya was indifferent to a suicide attempt made by Sahar, the middle daughter.

Shafia had been married to both women, though the family had claimed that Amir was a cousin when she immigrated to Canada.
‘You said that you could not save them’

Throughout the 2012 trial, the accused maintained they were never at the locks when the Nissan Sentra carrying the four victims plunged into the canal.

But at the hearing in which Yahya requested to visit her mother’s grave, she offered a different version of those events.

“You confirmed that your husband, with the complicity of your son, committed the murder in front of your eyes,” says the Parole Board of Canada decision, dated Sept. 10, which has been obtained by CBC News….

The decision notes Yahya’s “impeccable” behaviour in prison and that, after her appeal was dismissed in 2016, she has talked more openly about the killings….

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  1. Jay says

    Dec 16, 2019 at 9:17 am

    Canada is lost!!! This woman deserves no special accommodations! May the three young girls and the first wife, Rest In Peace! This decision to grant this murderer any special accommodations is the definition of
    insanity and completely insulting to these young victims and the rule of law!

    • Lion heart says

      Dec 17, 2019 at 3:17 am

      Jay : agree 👍 Thank to our prime minister ( Justin IGNORANT Trudeau ) for FLOODING Canada with Muslims ! And when we Canadian Christians originally from Iraq say that Islam is pure evil and Canada should not take in any Muslim , we are accused of being racist ? Just because we know the consequences of Muslim immigrants to the West especially in Canada , and we know the evil of Islam more than any other nation in the world since its rise as we have been suffering from it ever since especially after the fall of Saddam’s bloody regime ! iFinally I will said it again as a proverb said by our Christian ancestors many centuries ago “ if a Muslim is a piece of gold, then don’t put it in your pocket otherwise it will rip through “ meaning they will betray and stab Christians and other non Muslims in the back when they get the chance and power to do it “ .

      • David says

        Dec 18, 2019 at 8:29 am

        Lion heart: The muslim ‘gold’ was probably stolen from someone. I sympathise with you being an Iraqi Christian, as many will think you are a muslim. What a horrible thought!

    • Charles Lutz says

      Dec 17, 2019 at 5:40 pm

      Jay, do we need more evidence that the Ruling Class is determined to fabricate their own Canadastan ? Forget Trudeau’ s “black faces” and rather observe him on a video where he is praying in a Montreal mosque with his Muslim friends.

  2. terry sullivan says

    Dec 16, 2019 at 9:28 am

    islam is a cancer–it must be destroyed

    • mortimer says

      Dec 16, 2019 at 11:03 am

      No, don’t talk foolishly. Hyperbole confuses the thought. Muslims are humans with the wrong information. Muslims leave Islam instantly when they see the Koran is of human origin.

      • Sandra says

        Dec 16, 2019 at 1:15 pm

        Really? And exactly who is going to show them that? They’d rather kill you than listen to one word by a Christian infidel.

      • PRCS says

        Dec 16, 2019 at 8:03 pm

        Some, maybe.
        Pretty sure Yusuf al-Qaradawi has read Qur’an–many times–yet remains a Muslim.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 16, 2019 at 9:22 pm

        Mortimer, if you don’t consider Islam to be a cancer, what do you think is good about it?

      • Billy Chickens says

        Dec 16, 2019 at 9:36 pm

        Mortimer, the Koran is of satanic origin, not human.

        • PRCS says

          Dec 17, 2019 at 2:39 am

          Human.

          Pure, human concoction from a long, long time ago in a place not all that far away–as we measure travel times today.

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 17, 2019 at 8:29 pm

          Humans can be pretty evil–Islam proves that.

      • Giacomo Latta says

        Dec 17, 2019 at 11:45 am

        Really? Name the study that came to this great discovery. So all we had to do is play recitations of the bible along with a little pop music to make ISIS go away in Syria? Where do you think the majority of those knobs came from and how much they had been surrounded by Christianity until they took a working vacation to Syria?

  3. Stan Lore says

    Dec 16, 2019 at 9:50 am

    It’s 5 hours to visit her kids’ graves. Her husband, on the other hand, should stay exactly where he is (and get the shit kicked out of him regularly). She is a guilty follower but, if not for him, the murders wouldn’t have happened.

    • elee says

      Dec 16, 2019 at 10:22 am

      Note that shes not visiting her victims graves, shes visiting her mothers tomb. If I were in charge shed never see anything outside the greybar hotel except her daughters graves. What pieces of work these death cultists be!

  4. Rarely says

    Dec 16, 2019 at 11:23 am

    The decision to allow her to visit her mother’s grave under guard has nothing to do with islam. A civilized society inevitably treats its criminals better than they deserve and certainly better than they treated their victims. To do otherwise is to stoop to their level. The Canadian prison system leaves a lot to be desired but this has nothing to do with dimmitude.
    That being said, in this case I wouldn’t have granted her request except to plant her beside her mother. There are some crimes that are so horrendous that there are no “compassionate grounds” that justify any special privileges. The outright murdering your own children certainly falls into that category.

    • Lp says

      Dec 16, 2019 at 12:46 pm

      Agree

  5. Billy Chickens says

    Dec 16, 2019 at 11:34 am

    Isolation of Islam is the only answer. An enormously tall deadly electric fence with razor wire atop must be erected around a designated area somewhere on the planet. Maybe a large island somewhere. All those wishing to live the Islamic religion must be shipped there to live their evil lives. No nation will be allowed to interfere if these people start rebelling against one another.

    Since they are the “best of people” they will live happily ever after in the cities they build and the machines they design and create (sarc) with their god, Satan, who appeared to Muhammad as “Gabriel the Archangel” (2 Cor 11:14).

    • Analytical Chick says

      Dec 16, 2019 at 11:44 am

      THIS. We should have left them in the Middle East and never let them into western countries. What were people thinking?

    • David says

      Dec 18, 2019 at 9:32 am

      Billy, muslims don’t build anything of any worth (oh, you were being sarcastic!)
      There is a place they can go: Pakistan. Islam should not be allowed to spread. It is a deadly pathogen.

  6. PRCS says

    Dec 16, 2019 at 12:46 pm

    The precedent has been established.

    Don’t know how many Muslims are incarcerated in Canadian prisons, but by now they’ve likely all to have filled out THEIR requests.

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 16, 2019 at 3:15 pm

    Islamic “culture” is not actually a real culture but cruel savage primitive murderous system of brutal religious vicious violence. As seen in that malicious murder “custom” called “honor killing.”

    Be that vicious murderous action take place in Saudi Arabia , Pakistan, Iran or in any other Islamic country and now even Western nations , as Canada

    The people who actually needed compassion and not murderous violence .nevertheless the callous cold blooded murder who murder those girls was given compassion for humanitarian reasons.”

    This is wrong and an awful miscarriage of justice ,and affront to all the is good ,decent and right and a case of misplaced “compassion” Too the extreme

    About the topic of Islamic violence which, something, takes the form of the brutal cruel vicious and murderous action that is so inappropriately y called “honor killing.” This malicious misogyny is so heinous callous and malice- filled that it’s an affront to all that is good, decent and right. In addition, the author, Brigitte Gabriel in her book which is entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED on pages 171,172 , that “The shocking reality is that most Muslim men ,including those educated in the West ,have no objection to the degradation of women in their countries .Across the Muslim world, even in moderate Islamic countries, women’s’ rights are almost nonexistent…Women is Islam are considered unclean ,deemed inferior even to dirt.” In this just cited book it explains on page 176 that “Honor killings have also come to the West thanks to the rise of Islamic immigration.” As seen in this brutal murder of those three girls.

    This is evil and madness

    • David says

      Dec 18, 2019 at 8:47 am

      These stories need much wider publicity, for the World to realise the insanity of Islam.
      Email this article to your friends. Say someone showed it to you and you find it hard to believe. That way you won’t come across as ‘racist’ (worn out word, for sure)

  8. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Dec 16, 2019 at 4:30 pm

    What stuck out at me from this article was Colin Harris’ use of “so-called” in his description of the crime. That is, a “so-called honour killing.” What is Harris and the CBC up to here? I thought the term was well understood and accepted ….

    • PRCS says

      Dec 17, 2019 at 8:19 pm

      To those who are awake, though not to those merely ‘woke’.

    • David says

      Dec 18, 2019 at 8:41 am

      What is worse? Just plain old murder or ‘so-called honour killing’?
      Colin is hinting that it might be grounds for mitigation, in the eyes of the ‘so-called judge’.

  9. tgusa says

    Dec 16, 2019 at 6:14 pm

    Sympathy in any way shape or form when it comes to mass murderers and their accomplices is in no way humanitarian or compassionate. The administrators of justice in the west are nearly as sick in the head as the perpetrators. The victims are dead and gone and what was inflicted upon them is no longer of any consequence to the administrators of justice.

    Mass murderers and their associates are much more likely to live out their lives on the taxpayers dime with three hots and a cot (visiting mom at the cemetery) eventually dying in prison of natural causes rather than suffering true justice for their horrific crimes. I hope the administrators of justice are happy, I hope they all harbor an abundance of virtue because they themselves will eventually have to live within the monstrosity that they have sought to create. When justice is recognized as an abomination what fills the gap will not be pretty.

  10. gravenimage says

    Dec 16, 2019 at 9:19 pm

    Canada: Muslima convicted in honor killing of three girls gets escorted absence from prison for humanitarian reasons
    ……………………

    Just appalling. This isn’t like letting a non-violent offender–say, an embezzler or bad check casher–out to attend a loved one’s funeral. This is someone who was involved in the murder of four people, including her own children.

    That she is being released to express her filial piety after *murdering her own children* could not be more grotesque.

    • David says

      Dec 18, 2019 at 8:36 am

      GI: Perhaps she will apply again, this time to visit the graves of her daughters.

  11. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Dec 17, 2019 at 3:37 am

    “The Parole Board of Canada says it approved Tooba Yahya’s request “for humanitarian and compassionate reasons,” because her risk of recidivism is low …”

    Isn’t it true in general that the risk of recidivism is low for honor murderers? How many people honor-murder twice in their life? Few people make a career out of honor murder.

    • oldschool says

      Dec 17, 2019 at 11:22 am

      That probably depends upons the next relationship. And who cares? Aren’t 4 murders enough? She is in prison for punishment, not merely as a preventative measure! And what possible need would a woman who would kill a mother and 3 daughters have to visit her own mother’s grave? Let them rot.

      • David says

        Dec 18, 2019 at 8:32 am

        oldschool: Shame her mother didn’t do the same treatment to her.Had she thought about that while she was in prison?

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 17, 2019 at 8:37 pm

      As long as she has relatives who many not be considered “Islamic enough”, they are at risk if she is at large.

      And who is to say that she will only kill her close relatives? Jihad murders of Infidels may also be on her agenda.

    • David says

      Dec 18, 2019 at 8:34 am

      Mark: It depends how many relatives the killer has, and whether they ‘misbehave’, islamically.

  12. Mike says

    Dec 17, 2019 at 6:55 am

    It seems to me the SHAFIA family should be a good basis for Reza Aslam new mainstream tv comedy show . Can someone handle him the pitch ?

  13. Battle says

    Dec 17, 2019 at 9:29 am

    Tooba Yahya should have thought about visiting her mother’s grave before staying with a husband who lied to immigration officials about his first wife being a cousin.

    Tooba Yahya should have thought about visiting her mother’s grave before not calling the police to stop the murder of husband’s first wife and her own three children.

    And to quote Dr. Michael Savage, “Stench from the bench.”

  14. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Dec 17, 2019 at 11:25 pm

    “Compassionate reasons” = PITY. Libertine “liberal” criminals pretend not to don’t believe in free-will choices or criminal intent, so to them there are no real crimes or criminals, but only a lot of equally helpless diseased fellow victims at the mercy of mysteriously unknowably unknown (but also equally mysteriously, somehow knowably known to be) “inevitable” forces beyond anyone’s comprehension or control – you know, making everyone victims of society, mere products of their environments, and of course slaves to unknowably unknown but known to be almighty Allah! Whee!

  15. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Dec 17, 2019 at 11:33 pm

    “Compassionate reasons” = PITY. Libertine “liberal” criminals pretend not to believe in free-will choices or criminal intent, so to them there are no real crimes or criminals, but only a lot of equally helpless diseased fellow victims at the mercy of mysteriously unknowably unknown (but also equally mysteriously, somehow knowably known to be) “inevitable” forces beyond anyone’s comprehension or control – you know, making everyone victims of society, mere products of their environments, and of course slaves to unknowably unknown but known to be almighty Allah! So the only real crime is getting usefully angry at the sort of “victim” who routinely seems to choose to attack thereby innocent other people first, as opposed to the sort of victim who doesn’t. Getting mad at criminals is the most vile of sins, while virtue-signaling one’s useless, do-nothing pity is the highest moral virtue, these days! Whee!

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