The community is dealing with it and trying to understand the phenomenon." "The Muslim community is well aware of these types of issues that are being discussed in mosques and other forums. There are cases of violence across all faiths and all cultures," CAIR-CAN executive director Ihsaan Gardee said. The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations said domestic violence touches all religions, and the public shouldn't assume anything merely because the killing took place within a Muslim family. Parvez's murder an honour killing are avoiding the real issue, Mr. Muslim Canadian Congress founder Tarek Fatah said the guilty plea is a wake-up call for parents to understand that young women are not the possessions of men. Multiculturalism does not equal cultural relativism." "We want to underscore that multiculturalism is not an excuse, or a moral or legal justification, for such barbaric practices. "That's one of the reasons we have been explicit in condemning what we call barbaric cultural practices such as honour killings," Mr. Observers say the case, among the first so-called honour killings to gain widespread attention in Canada, will cast a spotlight on generational strains that can tear at families adapting to a new culture.Ĭitizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said it's a particularly pernicious form of murder to kill a member of one's own family for cultural reasons.
Parvez said her husband told her: "My community will say you have not been able to control your daughter. When asked by his wife why he had killed their daughter, Ms.
They will be sentenced to 25 years in prison. Parvez's father, Muhammad Parvez, 60, and her brother, Waqas Parvez, 29, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
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