The joy of religious fanaticism

An Islamic Canadian man will be “formally charged on Tuesday with murder in connection with the death of his 16-year-old daughter. The girl, Aqsa Parvez, was in critical condition on Monday after being strangled, apparently after a dispute with her family over her refusal to wear the hijab, the Islamic headscarf worn by some Muslim women.” The girl’s brother has also been indicted. She has since died. Read story here and here. By the way, with increased Islamic immigration this sort of thing is becoming widespread in Western countries.

“It’s almost unbelievable,” writes Little Green Footballs, “but the ultra-left Toronto Star is actually trying to whitewash this story”– Hijab family tensions.

Speaking of joy here’s a another joyful account, but this one involves a revirgined bride: “When Aisha Salim marries her fiance in Pakistan next March, it will be the wedding of her dreams. Wearing a veil and gown, she will be every inch the fairytale virgin bride and as befits her strict Muslim religion, after the ceremony, she will hand her blooded wedding-night sheets to her in-laws as proof of her virginity. But far from being the traditional untouched bride that many Muslim families demand, she is a modern-day university graduate who has smoked, drunk, made love to – and even lived with – a previous English boyfriend. To disguise the fact that she has had sex, she has paid for painful surgery to ‘restore’ her virginity.” Read this story here. Unlike the story above at least this young woman is alive.

Iran: death to women without head scarves.