“We will never allow the girls of this area to go and get a Western education”

HT to: http://www.jihadwatch.org/

Canada: Muslim denies murdering his wife for honor

Of course. Who ever heard of such a thing? He admits he killed her, but only, he says, after she “insulted him beyond endurance.” That explains it!

In any case, his story has changed significantly.

“Afghan immigrant denies killing wife over honour,” by Peter Small in the Toronto Star, November 1 (thanks to Kenneth):

An Afghan immigrant who stabbed and nearly decapitated his wife denies she enraged him by asserting her rights and tarnishing his honour.

Peer Khairi rejected repeated suggestions Thursday he killed his wife Randjida, 53, in a murderous fury over her increasing independence and support for their children’s Western ways.

“You said that Randjida was informed that women in Canada have a lot of rights and that’s when she started acting out and insulting you,” prosecutor Amanda Camara suggested in her cross-examination.

Khairi replied he had no idea about his wife’s views on women’s rights, and anyway it was no problem. “Whatever she was doing was her own choice,” he said through a Dari interpreter.

This contradicts notes by Dr. Sanjiv Gulati, a psychiatrist who examined him for this trial last April, reporting he complained about changes in his wife since the Afghan couple emigrated from India, where they were refugees.

Khairi, who claims to be 75, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder. He admits he stabbed his wife and slit her throat, but only after she approached him with a knife and insulted him beyond endurance in their West Mall highrise apartment in March 2008.

Camara suggested Khairi felt dishonoured by his six adult and teenaged children’s Western dress and social lives. “Your wife and daughters did not even wear head scarves,” she said.

“No, that’s not right, it was a proper hijab,” he said, adding he didn’t care if they wore head coverings.

He also denied disapproving of his four daughters wearing makeup, nail polish and clothes that exposed their arms and legs. Yet police reported him complaining they dressed inappropriately.

Camara pointed out he told police and the psychiatrist he disapproved of his eldest daughter, Giti, sleeping over at her fiancé’s house.

“I don’t even think I said such a thing,” he replied. He admitted he lectured Giti about the risks of being taken advantage of by her fiancé, but only out of concern for her reputation.

“You do not want your daughter to have sex before marriage because it would ruin your name,” Camara said.

“Why would it bring shame to me?” Khairi replied. “This is a free country.”…

At least for now.

Posted by Robert on November 3, 2012 4:49 AM|

Pakistan: Muslim mob torches girls’ school after claims that “blasphemous” material was given to sixth graders

More blasphemy madness in Pakistan, more innocent people victimized, as the world wrings its hands over “Islamophobia.”

“No end in sight to Pakistan’s blasphemy laws,” by Shamil Shams for DW, November 2 (thanks to Kenneth):

Pakistani activists say they have lost hope in the government to reform the Islamic country’s controversial laws in the wake of an attack on a girls’ school over alleged blasphemy.

A mob of more than 200 people set fire to a girls’ school in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday on accusations that one of the teachers of the school distributed “blasphemous” material to her sixth grade students.

Pakistani police are trying to trace the teacher of the Farooqi High School who has apparently gone into hiding.

Police officer Azam Manhais told the media that the 76-year-old Asim Farooqi, owner of the school, had been arrested on blasphemy charges.

At least one person was injured during the clash between the protesters and the police around the school. Pakistani authorities say they have filed a police report against “unknown assailants” for attacking the school.

According to the local media, the protesters mostly belonged to religious parties and Islamist groups, including the outlawed Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The Pakistani police, however, did not confirm this.

According to the initial reports, Arfa Iftikhar, one of the teachers of the girls’ school, had given an assignment to her sixth grade students about an essay on the Koran – the holy book of Islam – which allegedly carried derogatory remarks about the religion’s prophet.

“Our school management and the owners have no link whatsoever with this dirty act,” said an advertisementin [sic] Urdu, which the school management took out in two leading newspapers on Friday. “We appeal to the government and the police to take legal action against this teacher and investigate her real motive.”…

Posted by Robert on November 3, 2012 4:41 AM|

How do we stop this global insanity?? I don’t have a clue…

Scrumpy on November 3, 2012 at 4:27 PM