Canada: Father threatens daughter’s life over family ‘honor’

by Kal El on August 16, 2009 · Comments

A cabbie in Ottawa basically threatened his daughter, because she stopped wearing a headscarf and decided to live her life as she saw fit.

Crown wants taxi union boss jailed for ‘honour crime’

That’s ‘not my world,’ man insists, despite threats to daughter

OTTAWA — Crown prosecutors are seeking to send the head of Ottawa’s taxi union to jail for up to two years, alleging that a campaign of threatening and intimidating behaviour directed toward his daughter after she turned her back on the family’s Muslim beliefs was an honour crime.

Yusef Al Mezel’s threat of an honour killing was designed to “control and dominate” his then-23-year-old daughter, Eman Al Mezel, by suggesting she had brought shame upon her family that would be met with violent consequences, assistant Crown attorney James Cavanagh argued during a sentencing hearing Thursday.

Al Mezel, who pleaded guilty to criminal harassment last September, was trying to deny his daughter “every basic freedom as to how she could live her life,” Cavanagh said, the result of an “underlying notion of patriarchal dominance” based on a “perverted and archaic belief in family honour.”

“When she wouldn’t bend to his will … he raised the spectre of violence in the name of honour to scare her into complying with his wishes,” said Cavanagh, who urged Ontario Superior Court Justice Lynn Ratushny to sentence the 44-year-old president of the Canadian Autoworkers Local 1688 to 18 to 24 months behind bars.

Al Mezel admitted he repeatedly called, wrote, followed and visited the residences of Eman Al Mezel in July 2007 in an attempt to get his daughter to return home after a violent incident where he pushed her into a flight of stairs and threatened to break her legs and kill her before smashing her computer.

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So we have yet another muslimah fed up with the BS that is islam who leaves, and faces the standard islamist death sentence.  And still, not a peep from women’s groups. And of course we will see the typical muslim apologists and taqqiya spewers crying out that this has nothing to do with islam, completely disregarding the thousands of honor killings across the muslim world, not just in the West.

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  • Freedomlvr
    And the courts in Florida want to force Rifqa Bary to return home to her "loving" Muslim father. Apostasy is a capital crime according to all the Islamic schools of jurisprudence. But, of course, her parents say they never threatened her. They would never lie. Would they???
  • SirWilhelm
    The more I see this kind of thing, the less I understand how their "honor" system works. I have to guess it's how Allah puts the responsiblity on the men to enforce his sharia rules? If they can't hold their women to the rules, it makes them, and Allah, appear weak? And weakness isn't "honorable"? Just trying to understand the mechanics of the thing, while wondering if they even do.
  • hellosnackbar
    Too many Muslims of "honour" and not enough padded cells!
  • hellosnackbar
    And where does the blame lie you muslims??
    The usual bollocks of family Honour to bully and threaten women who, having experienced the freedom of expression and opinion in the west want it for themseves.
    It's about time that the west did something about these perverts(like Lord Curzon did
    when he built a gallows alongside a funeral pyre to hang the relatives of a widow who
    was being forced ito "suti" after her husband died")
    Spare the lash and spoil the child should be applicable to these barbaric lunatics.
    But the bleeding hearts of the cultural relativists would prevent such a measure.
    As an old Afrikaaner once told me the"sjambok" is an amazing tool to change miscreant's minds.
    Repeat offenders are a rarity.(and that was only for serial petty theft)
    Two years is a trifle against the seriousness of the threats he admits to.
    Tonto is absolutely right about the cowardly ,sickening mentality of these filth.
  • Tonto
    See how that muz honor thing works? Wimps have to control girls to feel like men....and tie their "honor" to what a girl does????? Pretty shaky grounds if you ask me. Honor is mine....and nothing anyone else says, does or believes has nothing to do with MY honor.....only their own. I CAN see how a muz could have identity problems being a slave to islam and having a mullatard tell them what to think, what to say and what to do, and when to do it. Islam just breeds pussies, I guess.....
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