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Dad Allegedly Kills Girl Over Head Scarf

By Jonathan Spicer,
Reuters
Posted: 2007-12-11 22:03:34
Filed Under: Crime News, World News
TORONTO (Dec. 11) - A Canadian teenager who was said to have clashed with her father about whether she should wear a traditional Muslim head scarf died of injuries late on Monday, and her father told police he had killed her.

Peel District School Board / Handout / Reuters

A memorial for Aqsa Parvez is set up at her high school near Toronto. Some of her classmates were quoted as saying she wore traditional Muslim dress when leaving her house in the morning, but would change into other clothes in school washrooms.

Aqsa Parvez, 16, was found without a pulse in her home in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga earlier on Monday. She was resuscitated by paramedics, treated at two hospitals, and later succumbed to her injuries, police said on Tuesday.

Her father, 57-year-old Muhammad Parvez, has been charged with murder and was remanded back into custody after his first court appearance early on Tuesday.

"There was a 911 call placed by a man who indicated that he had just killed his daughter," Jodi Dawson, a constable with Peel Regional Police, told Reuters. "Everything else is evidentiary in nature and the investigation is in its preliminary stages at this point."

The victim's brother, Waqas Parvez, 26, was arrested and charged with obstructing police.

The story was on the front pages of Canadian newspapers on Tuesday. The newspapers quoted friends and schoolmates of the victim as saying she argued with her father over wearing a hijab, the traditional head scarf worn by Muslim females.

Photos of the teen retrieved from a social networking Web site show her in Western dress with her long dark hair loose.

"She was always scared of her dad, she was always scared of her brother," the Toronto Star quoted a classmate as saying.

Others were quoted as saying the girl wore traditional Muslim dress when leaving the house in the morning, but would change into other clothes in school washrooms.

Dawson said investigators will likely speak to the victim's schoolmates. The father will return for a bail hearing on Wednesday.

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wildeowens 12:35:00 PM Dec 19 2007

gposner29 <ASSIMILATION? NAW...TRY ANNIHILATION.>

Looks to me like the Israelis are doing a pretty good job of that in the occupied territories, wouldn't you say, Posner? Let's see, how many Palestinians shall we shoot today and how many houses shall we bulldoze? It's a hard choice, said one Israeli soldier to another, thankful for the billions America sends to his country every year in economic and military aid and thankful for the multi-millions that American Christian evangelicals provide as well: Must be a "good" feeling to know your charitable contribution (just turn on the Christian Television Network) helped to "return" an "oppressed" Jewish family from the "ghettos" of Boca Raton to land owned only a few weeks ago by a Palestinian family, now with the bulldozed remains of their house and belongings on the ground.

wildeowens 12:25:00 PM Dec 19 2007

gposner29 <After I stopped laughing I realized how fortunate these kids are to have radical Muslims as parents. Obama is a Muslim.>

Barack Obama is not Muslim. But I've read so much of your BS and bigotted postings before, so it doesn't surprise me that you are putting more lies on the board.

wildeowens 12:18:00 PM Dec 19 2007

cont.
Jerry Falwell and his (Im)Moral Majority supported every social injustice known to man. Jimmy Swaggart ("I have sinned"--in a motel room, no less), Jim
Baaker living the "good" life with multi-millions of his sheep-flock's money. Pat Robertson with his militaristic and bigotted statements and his shady money deals, Oral Roberts' son with his misappropriation of parishioners' money, the one that was head of some Christian empire out in CO who says he just got "cured" from being gay (so he's good and ready to start another Christian multimillion-dollar empire I'm sure and will find no shortage of mindless followers)--just about every TV evangelist--all hypocrites of the first order, whose god is money and power and who care nothing about social justice in this world. The list is endless.

wildeowens 12:15:00 PM Dec 19 2007

christianmilner <Funamentalist Conservative Christians are just as dangerous. They are always pointing their crooked finger at everyone else, but if you look at practically everything that is wrong with our Country, you'll find Conservative Christians at the center of the problem. Rigid, uncompromising, intolerance of others,bigotry, hatered of others who are different,selfishness and greed, are all the hallmarks of any Fundamentalist Organization, including Christianity.>

I couldn't agree more. Evangelical Christians/Baptists are at the root of almost every social injustice in the world--they supported the Iraq war and thus the murder of innocents; they are against a just resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict due to what they believe is biblical prophecy (this in spite of the fact that they are wholly ignorant about the conflict's history and the occupation is illegal under the 4th Geneva Convention. (Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee-a Baptist minister-thinks the Pales

shelbyphicks 11:48:00 PM Dec 17 2007

I think it's hard to try to keep your faith when it comes to your children. You can't put them in a westernized community and not expect them to adapt to there surroundings.

bigbazookageorge 11:03:56 AM Dec 16 2007

sad shape islam is in today

Lisaendicott7 08:01:10 PM Dec 15 2007

Several years ago, I read a similar story where the father stabbed his daughter to death as her mother held her down. The girls crime...she went out with a boy. The father and mother were both sentenced to life in prison. The same thing should happen here.

nothumn1 06:33:39 PM Dec 15 2007

christianmilner
YOUR A BIGGER FOOL THEN YOUR AVITAR.
Take you hate mongering to your leftist friends.
God still loves you and so do we. Does not mean we can't think your an ass!
Christians have spread more humanitarian aid on this planet then any organization in the world.
We help more people then any organization in the world.
Who did more to help New Orleans thats right Churches and giving people that belong to them while the goverment sat.
Fact is yes we are intolerant. Your not going to tell us to believe a damn thing. We are going to LOVE JESUS no matter what you put on TV,music and try to force feed us. That does not mean we won't stop giving. A Christian is not a person who judges a person gay or not..... Only GOD can do that. That does not mean we can't judge an act.
I feel sorry for you I really do. Go get educated or better yet talk to a minister maybe he can help you.

nothumn1 06:33:00 PM Dec 15 2007

christianmilner
YOUR A BIGGER FOOL THEN YOUR AVITAR.
Take you hate mongering to your leftist friends.
God still loves you and so do we. Does not mean we can't think your an ass!
Christians have spread more humanitarian aid on this planet then any organization in the world.
We help more people then any organization in the world.
Who did more to help New Orleans thats right Churches and giving people that belong to them while the goverment sat.
Fact is yes we are intolerant. Your not going to tell us to believe a damn thing. We are going to LOVE JESUS no matter what you put on TV,music and try to force feed us. That does not mean we won't stop giving. A Christian is not a person who judges a person gay or not..... Only GOD can do that. That does not mean we can't judge an act.
I feel sorry for you I really do. Go get educated or better yet talk to a minister maybe he can help you.

christianmilner 06:01:00 PM Dec 15 2007

Funamentalist Conservative Christians are just as dangerous. They are always pointing their crooked finger at everyone else, but if you look at practically everything that is wrong with our Country, you'll find Conservative Christians at the center of the problem. Rigid, uncompromising, intolerance of others,bigotry, hatered of others who are different,selfishness and greed, are all the hallmarks of any Fundamentalist Organization, including Christianity.

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