Guilty verdict in Shafia murders

Canada’s sensational “honour killing” trial ends in first-degree murder convictions for Mohammad Shafia, his wife and son.

January 29, 2012

Three members of an Afghanistan-born Montreal family have been found guilty of killing three daughters and a co-wife in what the judge describes as "cold-blooded, shameful murders" resulting from a "twisted concept of honour."

Justice Robert Maranger voiced the revulsion Canadians feel toward such criminality when he denounced the “sick notion of honour” that snuffed out four innocent lives, and warned that it “has absolutely no place in any civilized society.”

The judge continued his comments as follows:  

 
“It is difficult to conceive of a more despicable, more heinous, more honourless crime.

“There is nothing more honourless than the deliberate murder of, in the case of Mohammad Shafia, three of his daughters and his wife; in the case of Tooba Yahya, three of her daughters and a stepmother to all her children; in the case of Hamed Shafia, three of his sisters and a mother.

“The apparent reason behind these cold-blooded, shameful murders was that the four completely innocent victims offended your twisted concept of honour, a notion of honour that is founded upon the domination and control of women, a sick notion of honour that has absolutely no place in any civilized society.

“For these crimes, for these murders, the sentence is mandatory as set out in the Criminal Code of Canada — imprisonment without eligibility of parole for a period of 25 years — and that’s the sentence of the court for each of you.’’ 



Three of the victims, sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, were spirited young women who arrived in Canada in 2007, and pined to be more like their new friends. They chafed under their Afghan father’s abuse, and yearned to live lives free from fear, to date boyfriends of their own choosing, to discard the hijab and to dress and act as other kids do. The fourth victim was Shafia’s first wife in a polygamous marriage, Rona Amir Mohammad, who wanted out of a relationship that had soured through no fault of her own. All were found drowned in the family’s Nissan Sentra in a Kingston canal, on June 30, 2009.

That they were murdered by those who should have cherished them is inexpressibly sad.

Above notes borrowed from the Toronto Star

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/1123550--canada-s-sensational-honour-trial-ends-in-first-degree-murder-convictions-for-mohammad-shafia-his-wife-and-son

Who let these primitive, unevolved, retards into this great country??????