Father, Brother Plead Guilty In Death Of Daughter "over Her Reluctance To Wear A Hijab"

[parksb2]

http://tinyurl.com/29jtrjbFather, brother plead guilty in death of Ontario teenAqsa Parvez was 16 years old when she was strangled in her bedroom after clashes over her refusal to wear a hijab.Kate AllenMississauga, Ont. — Globe and Mail Update and The Canadian PressPublished on Tuesday, Jun. 15, 2010 2:06PM EDTLast updated on Tuesday, Jun. 15, 2010 4:39PM EDTIn a surprising turn, the father and brother of a Mississauga teen who was strangled in December, 2007, have pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.Aqsa Parvez was 16 years old when she was slain in her bedroom.Muhammad Parvez and his son Waqas will be automatically sentenced to life in prison. They were previously scheduled to stand trial for first-degree murder next January.The girl's friends said she had feared for her safety in the days leading up to her death because she had clashed with her family over her reluctance to wear a hijab, and her preference for slim-fitting “Western-style” clothing.Aqsa’s father nodded slightly as the Crown prosecutor read out a description of the days leading up to her death, after she ran away from home.Two days before she died, Aqsa went to the movies for the first time in her life.That week, she had asked a guidance counsellor to look over a resume and said she wanted to find a part-time job, something her father had never permitted.Aqsa “appeared happy and determined to start a new life for herself,” the statement of facts reads.Her brother showed no expression today in court.According to the statement, he picked Aqsa up at the bus stop at 7:20 a.m. on the day she died. By 7:56 a.m., Muhhamed Parvez had called 911 to say he had killed his own daughter, using his hands.When police entered the home at 8 a.m., they found her mother, Anwar Jan, hysterical in the basement where emergency responders could not resuscitate Aqsa.As other family members' statements to police were read out, Muhammed Parvez held his head in his hands and rocked back and forth slightly.In an earlier interview with police, her brother Atishan said he did not feel his sister deserved to die “but if it was his daughter, he might have broken her legs.”When she was left alone in the interview room, Aqsa's mother was recorded distraughtedly talking to herself, saying, “Oh God ... said will break legs and arms - has killed her straight away.”In those interviews, police asked the mother if this happens often in Pakistan. She responded, “over there murders take place because of girls. Men kill them.”In the days after her death, as the police investigation proceeded, a man who worked with Waqas Parvez came forward to say Waqas had asked him how to get a gun because his sister was “causing the family embarrassment” and he intended to kill her and said their father planned to take the blame. He asked “what happens to someone in Canada if they kill someone,” according to the statement.The co-worker, Steve Warda, encouraged Waqas to talk to his sister. Mr. Warda later co-operated with police to record conversations with the brother. In one of those conversations, Waqas said he had choked his sister and that he was overcome with guilt.Anwar Jan, Aqsa's mother, was in court with three other people who appeared to be family members.

[Travis]

I do not understand killing for any reason except to survive

[tom_shor]

This is a prime example of the type of people we are dealing with and the culture they are so proud of. Too bad more people don't realize this. I'd say nuke them into the stone age but how could we tell.