UPDATE: Girl Dies - Dad Chokes Daughter For Refusing Hijab…In Toronto
UPDATE: Toronto police report that the girl has died.
TORONTO-A 16-year-old girl is in critical condition after being choked by a man believed to be her father, apparently after a dispute with her family over her refusal to wear the hijab, the Islamic headscarf worn by some Muslim women.
Peel Regional Police arrested a 57-year-old man yesterday morning after receiving a 911 call from a suburban home in Mississauga from a man saying he had killed his daughter. When police and paramedics arrived at the house they found a 16-year-old lying on the floor without any vital signs, police said.
Constable J.P. Valade, a spokesman for Peel police, would not release the names of either the victim or the man arrested and would not give any details about what transpired inside the large, two-storey home in a well-to-do subdivision.
“We are not getting into the details of her injuries at this time,” he said. “We aren’t getting into any details about this case. This investigation is really in its infancy: officers are still canvassing the neighbourhood and talking to family members.”
However, early police reports indicated the teenager had been choked and that the attacker was her father.
The girl was rushed to Credit Valley Hospital and later transferred to the Hospital for Sick Children, where she was listed in critical condition last night with life-threatening injuries.
Her condition is so grave that police have not yet charged the man arrested at the scene until they know whether he will be charged with murder or attempted murder. He was scheduled to appear in Brampton court on Tuesday.
Friends of the teenager, a Grade 11 student at nearby Applewood Heights high school, identified her as Aqsa Parvez and said they were shocked by the attack on the outgoing, likeable girl, but said she had been threatened by her strictly religious family before.
“She got threatened by her father and her brother,” said Dominiquia Holmes-Thompson, who had known Aqsa since they both started high school together. “He said that if she leaves, he would kill her.”
Ebonie Mitchell, 16, another friend of the victim, said the conflict with her father over wearing Islamic dress came to a head at the beginning of this school year. “She just wanted to dress like we do,” she said.
“Last year she wore like the Islamic stuff and everything, the hijab, and this year she’s all Western. She just wanted to look like everyone else. And I guess her dad had a problem with that.”
Ebonie said her friend had left home once before, in September, for about two weeks. She returned home, but the fights with her family over what she wore just got worse.
Dominiquia, 16, said her friend had been arguing with her father for more than a year over the restrictions he imposed on her, including demanding that she wear the hijab at all times. “She wanted to go out with her friends, hang out and just be like a normal person,” she said. “But he was always trying to control her … he wouldn’t let her go out or do anything.”
The stricken girl’s friends said the fights with her father got so bad that she had left the family home to live with friends about a week ago. “She was going back, but just to get her stuff,” said friend Krista Garbutt. “She was scared to go home, but she had to get her clothes and stuff.”
Neighbours said as many as 11 people lived in the home, which was sealed off by crime scene tape and surrounded by police cars yesterday, all members of an extended Pakistani family. Const. Valade confirmed that there were other people in the home when the teenager was attacked.
“I didn’t really know any of them,” said one woman, who would not give her name. “There were a lot of them living in that house, always coming and going. They didn’t talk to me, maybe just to say hello once in a while. That’s all.”
The home where the teen was attacked is the listed address of Muhammad Parvez, a Mississauga cab driver. “He was Muslim and very devout, very observant,” said one of his fellow drivers at Mississauga’s Blue and White Taxi, who did not want his name used. “He was always stopping to take breaks and pray: three, four times a day.”
His eldest son, also named Muhammad, also worked as a cab driver and lived in the family home with his wife and at least one child, the driver said. Several people inside the home were questioned by police before being allowed to leave.
Neighbours said the family moved in just over a year ago.
(NNP)
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Lets see how the socialists up north treat the father?
December 10th, 2007 at 10:42 pmI’ll bet they back down from the religion of peace.
..but they shouldn’t have to assimilate! Why can’t they be allowed to live according to the dictates of their religion or culture? …because those dictates may go against the criminal laws of our societies such as the law that says You are responsible for the life of your children and that you can’t kill them no matter what they do or say!
I think immigration applications ought to ask cultural and religious questions as a means to weed out fanatics such as this dickhead. I realise this is canada and perhaps they have a clause to appease muslim fathers executing honor-killings so i may be off base here in this particular case.
December 10th, 2007 at 11:12 pmWhat would satan do? Ask a muslim.
December 11th, 2007 at 12:37 amThe electric chair is too easy for this shithead… slow painful death by mutilation will suffice.
December 11th, 2007 at 2:38 amWhy did no one accompany this girl when she went home just to get her stuff?
Every one involved seems to know what was going on! It was clear she would get in trouble the moment she showed up at the house where her Islam-crazed dead and brother lived.
Sorry about my comment, but;
It’s always the same story. People KNOW, but stay seated at their butts. That doens’t help those who are in harms way because of religion that seems to be only two things; hate and kill.
Please folks, if something like this happens around your neighbourhood, ACT!!!. Not by doing harm, but by protecting people like this poor girl. Rally up some friends. It’s the only way to stop this kind of murdering. Politicians wont listen, then the people must do something about it.
December 11th, 2007 at 5:09 am
This is nothing new. This kind of Muslim culture is called the infamous “Honor Killing”. This is when Murder is legal in some Muslim country where the Husband or Father could kill the wife or daughter who does not go by the strict guide lines of the teachings of the Koran! I remember ten years ago a Muslim father killed his daughter when he caught her kissing a non-Muslim boy. This happen here in good old Southern California! Who the father had someone help him, it was his wife that hold her down will he stab his daughter six times.
December 11th, 2007 at 5:53 amReligion of Peace my A$$!
Paraphrasing General Napier:
You say it is your custom to strangle your daughters. We also have a custom: when a man strangles a girl, we hang him. Follow your custom, and we shall follow ours.
December 11th, 2007 at 6:51 amHonor killing huh?
Yes, it would be a distinct HONOR !
To kill every f****N gutless woman killing, kid killing, bearded, stinky, male muzzie I could get close to.
But then again, if the goatf*****s kill off all of their women and kids——
December 11th, 2007 at 7:25 amnaaaaww,—–then the dhimocrap lib bitchs would breed with em and we would be back to square one.
There is NO honor in killing a helpless girl
the “logic” is illogical, and he is nothing but a murdering pig.
December 11th, 2007 at 7:27 amShe has since died, both her brother and her father have been charged. Her brother was charged with obstruction of police.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071211.wdeadteen1211/BNStory/National/home
December 11th, 2007 at 7:58 amCanadian choice to bring the scorpion into their house of freedom, but why are they surprised when the scorpion stings and kills those who act on that freedom? That is the scorpion’s nature.
Prayers for the the poor deceased girl and her mourning friends, curses to her family who failed her.
December 11th, 2007 at 8:22 amDeath by hanging, short drop.
Not that the Canucks have the balls to do what needs to be done. Hell, we don’t, either.
Most people seem to be walking on the road of good intentions, eyes shut, hands over their ears, stepping over the bodies of countless innocent victims, timidly shambling towards a hell on earth of jihad, dhimmitude, and sharia.
The road I intend to march down, eyes open, chin held high, is paved with the corpses of jihadis, taquiyya-spewers, and traitors. I’m not quite sure what I’ll find at the end of it, but I know I’ll face it without remorse, come what may.
December 11th, 2007 at 9:31 amTo Mark Tanberg,
December 11th, 2007 at 10:45 amWe “socialists” up here are carrying our freight in Afghanistan and have a Conservative prime minister in power who is a staunch ally of your government. I disagree with a lot of the liberal shit here (and there), but please don’t diss all Canadians by calling us “socialists”. Lousy government-funded health care doesn’t make a country socialist.
TJ, we no more “appease” Muslim fathers killing their daughters than Americans do! What’s with the flood of antiCanadian crap here?
December 11th, 2007 at 10:46 amHey boys there are lots of us here up north who want to see some real justice for this guy. If you guys want to see a guy who gets how Canadians feel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S79GgX71C8o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u_4B6JDcgE&feature=related
yanks enjoy
December 11th, 2007 at 12:20 pmLaura, My apologies you are right, I certainly don’t identify
December 11th, 2007 at 12:51 pmwith the socialists that are tirelessly trying to undermine the US on a daily basis. This story got me so hot I let my fingers go before my head.
As for our health care we have sold its very soul to the insurance industry here and that seems only two steps away from socialization anyway.
Thank you Cannucks for your service in Afghanistan
Muslims are like Nazis, except without the really cool uniforms.
December 11th, 2007 at 1:02 pm@Kevin M:
Yeah. They may have been murdering, genocidal maniacs, but at least they had style. I mean, how is a guy wearing a dress supposed to instill fear in the enemy? The Waffen SS LOOKED like a Legion of Terror. Al Quaeda looks like they’d fit in at the Folsom Street Fair.
December 11th, 2007 at 1:50 pmMuslims like to boast of How Islam came about to end the killing of baby girls by burying them. they have replaced that horrible practice with the “honor” killing of the those babies after they reach adolescence.
Those muslims really are “progressive”
December 11th, 2007 at 7:18 pm