Surprisingly, though: no calls for a Lexus registry or the closing of the locks — not even a puny “memorial” on the grounds. Weird, huh?
Of course, our Establishment Elites don’t want you to know that “Marc Lepine” was really a Muslim, so…
Anyhow — Excellent coverage of Canada’s worst honor killing (so far) — by who else but evil racist right wingers:
First, a flashback to, er, January:
When I appeared in London, Ontario last November, the local Islamic enforcer, Faisal Joseph, suggested that Muslims should protest by contributing to women’s shelters.
As Kathy Shaidle pointed out, the Muslim community’s principal contribution to women’s shelters is the women.
Christie Blatchford this week:
It’s the Canadian Maple Leaf that flies high over the picturesque locks at Kingston Mills near this historical city, but on the night of June 30, 2009, it might just as well have been the black-red-and-green flag of Afghanistan.
What happened at the locks that night, Crown prosecutors alleged in Ontario Superior Court Thursday, was a so-called “honour killing,” the culmination of a violent misogynist Afghan culture that had been transplanted holus-bolus years earlier into the heart of Central Canada.
“May the devil s- on their graves,” Mohammad Shafia told his second wife, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 20 days after the bodies of the couple’s three teenage daughters and Shafia’s first wife were recovered from a car in the water at the locks. (…)
Though Shafia and Hamid may have appeared the picture of successful and westernized men – the father was wealthy, owned a shopping mall in Laval, Que., and had contracted to build an upscale home, and the family had lived in Pakistan, Australia and Dubai – behind closed doors, they might as well have been back in Afghanistan.
Zainab was kept out of school for a full year after the family discovered she had a boyfriend.
It was her running away, in the spring of 2009, to a women’s shelter that sparked the family’s downward spiral…
