We Will Not Tolerate Honor Killings in the West
The Aqsa Parvez Shelter for Battered Muslim Women

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
December 17, 2007

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/246/we-will-not-tolerate-honor-killings-in-the-west

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Aqsa Parvez, the tragic sixteen year old slain by her father in an honor killing in Canada, was buried secretly and privately. Her teenage friends arrived hours too late at the Islamic Center where they had been told her funeral would take place. The kind of family and culture capable of honor murder (she and her family are all Pakistani immigrants) is also quite capable of denying her Canadian friends the opportunity of paying their last respects.

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