Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Honor-killing father said daughters betrayed Islam

The day before a Montreal man was charged with killing his three daughters and his first wife, he was recorded on a wiretap saying that even if he is sent to the gallows, nothing is more important than his honor.


"They betrayed kindness. They betrayed Islam. They betrayed our religion and creed. They betrayed our tradition. They betrayed everything," Mohammad Shafia is heard telling his wife, Tooba Mohammad Yahya.

Shafia, Yahya and their eldest son, Hamed Mohammad Shafia, 20, are each charged with four counts of first-degree murder. Three teenage Shafia sisters, Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, along with Rona Amir Mohammad, 50, were discovered dead inside a car submerged in the Rideau Canal in June 2009. Read the rest on:

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