5 Feet of Fury

“Clashed” is the new “strangled”

All this is nonsense, of course. Murdering daughters is no more an Islamic value than murdering estranged wives is a Western one. Muhammed Parvez might have been fighting a losing battle trying to make Aqsa wear a hijab, but that hardly sets him apart.

“Few are the fathers, of any faith or none, who have not clashed with their adolescent daughters over something — boyfriends, lipstick, short skirts, staying out late, dyed hair, body piercings, tattoos and any number of other age-inappropriate enormities…”