Father Kills Infidel Daughter: Was He Justified?

[Megatron]

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Hijab can divide families The suggestion of violent disputes between a 16-year-old girl in Mississauga and her father over her desire to show her hair and live a "normal" lifestyle raises questions about tensions between parents and children in the Muslim community.Dec 11, 2007 10:29 AM
Bob Mitchell
Jim Wilkes
staff reporters

A 16-year-old girl is dead and her father has been charged with murder after an attack in a Mississauga home.

Aqsa Parvez, a student at Applewood Heights Secondary School, had been on life support in hospital since yesterday morning.

Police went to the family's two-storey home on Longhorn Trail about 8 a.m. yesterday after receiving a 911 call in which a man allegedly claimed to have killed his daughter.

Paramedics found Aqsa with a faint pulse and rushed her to hospital. She was later transferred to a Toronto hospital and placed on life support.

Peel police said this morning that she died overnight.

Friends at the victim’s school said she feared her father and had argued over her desire to shun the hijab, a traditional shoulder-length head scarf worn by females in devout Muslim families.

Homicide investigators had been standing by, as it soon became clear the young girl wouldn't survive the attack.

Muhammad Parvez, 57, has been remanded in custody and was to make his first court appearance today in a Brampton court.

The victim's brother, 26-year-old Waqas Parvez, was also arrested on a charge of obstructing police.

Neighbours described the family as very private and said several members from three generations have lived in the two-storey home, near Hurontario St. and Eglinton Ave., for just over two years.

School chums say Aqsa had been arguing with her family for months over whether she should wear the hijab.

Pal Ebonie Mitchell, 16, and other friends said Aqsa still wore the hijab to school last year, but rebelled against dressing in it this fall.

They said she would leave home wearing the traditional garment and loose clothing, but would often change into tighter garments at school.

She would change back for the bus trip home.

"Sometimes she even changed her whole outfit in the washroom at school," Mitchell said.

The teen was known to her classmates and Facebook friends as Axa. She posted several pictures of herself on the website in colourful clothes and accessories.

At Aqsa's high school, friends gathered in groups yesterday, struggling to come to grips with what happened and lamenting how she had quarrelled with her father to the point that she recently moved out to live with a friend.

"She said she was always scared of her dad, she was always scared of her brother ... and she's not scared of nobody," said classmate Ashley Garbutt, 16.

"She didn't want to go home ... to the point where she actually wanted to go to shelters."

Friends said the root of her problems was a desire to blend in with friends at school, to wear the fashionable clothes she liked to buy on trips to Toronto's garment district, where she went with friends just last month.

"She liked fashion," said Mitchell. "We went to different stores; she was shopping; she bought lots of clothes."

"She loved clothes, she loved shopping and she loved taking pictures of herself," classmate Dominiquia Holmes-Thompson, 16, said outside the school as friends sobbed at the news.

"She just wanted to show her beauty. She just wanted freedom, freedom from her parents."

"She just wanted to dress like us, just like a normal person," said Holmes-Thompson.

"She was a very kind person, she was really nice; everybody loved her."

Friend Shianne Phillips, 16, said she last spoke with Aqsa on Friday.

"She was crying and she was like ‘I'm really scared to go home. I don't know what I'm going to do.' And that was it," Phillips said.

[Gedo_Boy]

No, he can't take her life for that. She was pretty determined to to rebel against it. He could probably disown her.


This could be the Facebook Homepage Honor Killing

[Niya]

Megatron, what is your definition of infidel?

The father took her life NOT because of love of Islam BUT to save face in his community. It all about appearances, and not substance.

[muktaar]

i blame BET and MTV 4 this

im sure within few weeks she would have become sexually active most likely with Jamicans adoons

i agree with gedo boy he should have disowned her instead of killing her

this is the problem with livin in the weastern atmpshere
man is busy workin hard to provide his family while a brain dead adoon is bangin his daughter at the meantime

[Shirib]

If my child denounced Islam I would want them executed just like I would want any other person who denounced Islam to be executed.

The punishment for Apostacy is death.

Now the question is was he acting in vigilance or in the teachings of the Prophet (PBUH)

[Gedo_Boy]

Some of these Muslims are selling alcohol, lottery tickets and pornography in corner stores and then expecting their daughters to wear hijab.

[Leila2007]

Shirib

that is harsh!

she wanted stop wearing hijab not being a muslim.there are a lot of muslims out there who dont wear hijab and are good muslims.

It is hard to grow up in a non- muslim country and parents need to understand this.

[Shirib]

[quote="Leila2007"]Shirib

that is harsh!

she wanted stop wearing hijab not being a muslim.there are a lot of muslims out there who dont wear hijab and are good muslims.

It is hard to grow up in a non- muslim country and parents need to understand this.[/quote]

O.k I am a victim of skimming and not reading.

So you're telling me he killed her not because she denounced Islam but because she stopped wearing a hijaab.

Is he stupid. Kill that focker its murder. You can't kill someone for that

[Emperor_kuzco]

Doesn't he know that raising kids in the west especially girls is every hard these days. Today western society is against our Muslim sisters. We as fathers, husbands, and brothers need to stand next to them and make them understand that there is no shame in wearing the hijab.

The father wasn't much of a father, if he was he would have understood the pressure that is put on his daughter and would have talked to her.

Today Muslim parents lack the ability to TALK to their children in the West.

Besides there are so called Muslim boy who are banging these white/black gaalos, I don't see anyone speaking about it or condemning their behavior.

Megatron You can't call her an infidel.

[FAH1223]

[quote="Gedo_Boy"]Some of these Muslims are selling alcohol, lottery tickets and pornography in corner stores and then expecting their daughters to wear hijab.[/quote]

exactly!

if I was in his position, I wouldn't do anything. Do we know she denounced Islam? I don't think so, she probably was never taught it correctly to begin with.

She has to wear hijab for the sake of Allah, not her father or brother.

Insha allah, you just have to hope and make duca that she will come around to that, but whats seriously hurting Muslim communities is that people aren't teaching their kids Islam

[kambuli]

Shirib,

Would you kill your daughter, son, inaadeer or qaraabo qansax if they kill an innocent person? Take the life of an innocent person simply because he/she is reer hebel....

[FAH1223]

[quote="Emperor_kuzco"]
Besides there are so called Muslim boy who are banging these white/black gaalos, I don't see anyone speaking about it or condemning their behavior. [/quote]

its a horrible double standard

[Shirib]

[quote="kambuli"]Shirib,

Would you kill your daughter, son, inaadeer or qaraabo qansax if they kill an innocent person? Take the life of an innocent person simply because he/she is reer hebel.... [/quote]

I can't act in vigilance but if someone in my family were to kill an innocent person I would want them tried in court and if they are found guilty they should be executed.

When do you hear Geledi fighting we're past that let the kids play now they'll grow up.

[Leila2007]

Shirib

i am not sure why he killed her but again parents need to educate their kids islamically so that they understand why they are muslimsa and will be practicing muslims when parents are not with them. You cant monitor your kids 24-7 the best thing to do is equip them with knowledge about diin and life in general. You empower your children not attack and kill them

Some are bound to make mistakes and you are there to support them fully to come thro difficult times and this done thro good communication, love and understanding.

And above all you pray for them to be good muslims. I dont understand why muslim parents attack their own blood! shocking!

[Ican]

[quote="FAH1223"][quote="Gedo_Boy"]Some of these Muslims are selling alcohol, lottery tickets and pornography in corner stores and then expecting their daughters to wear hijab.[/quote]

exactly!

if I was in his position, I wouldn't do anything. Do we know she denounced Islam? I don't think so, she probably was never taught it correctly to begin with.

She has to wear hijab for the sake of Allah, not her father or brother.

Insha allah, you just have to hope and make duca that she will come around to that, but whats seriously hurting Muslim communities is that people aren't teaching their kids Islam[/quote]

It has nothing to do with people teaching their children islam. Some of the worst kids are those who come from strict households who have been bombarded with Islam since they were children and once they grow up and become independent they throw it out the window. Islam overload is just as much a problem as lack of teaching Islam.