Friends suspect a clash of cultures led to an attack in a Mississauga home yesterday that has left a 16-year-old girl clinging to life and her father facing an attempted murder charge.

A source said the teen was strangled and is not expected to survive.

School chums of Aqsa Parvez, a Grade 11 student at Applewood Heights Secondary School, say the teen had been arguing with her devout Muslim family for months over her desire to shun the hijab, a traditional shoulder-length head scarf.

Pal Ebonie Mitchell, 16, and other friends said Aqsa still wore the hijab to school last year, but rebelled against dressing in it this fall.

They said she would leave home wearing the traditional garment and loose clothing, but would often change into tighter garments at school.

She would change back for the bus trip home.

"Sometimes she even changed her whole outfit in the washroom at school," Mitchell said.

Peel Region police went to the family's Longhorn Trail home about 8 a.m. yesterday after a man called police, said Const. J.P. Valade.

Paramedics rushed Parvez to a Mississauga hospital after finding a faint pulse.

She was transferred in grave condition to a hospital in Toronto.

She is being kept alive on life support as family members decide whether to donate her organs for transplant, the source said.

Neighbours described the family as very private and said several members from three generations have lived in the two-storey home, near Hurontario St. and Eglinton Ave., for just over two years.

"I was shocked," said Fatima Domingos, a mother of two daughters. "I have a 20 year old and a 14 year old and I couldn't imagine ever coming across something like that.

"It's sad. I hope she makes it. It's close to Christmas. At any time of the year this is a tragedy."

Neighbours said the father drives for Mississauga's Blue and White Taxi. A company official declined to comment.

The teen was known to her classmates and Facebook friends as Axa. She posted several pictures of herself on the website in colourful clothes and accessories.

At Aqsa's high school, friends gathered in groups, struggling to come to grips with what happened and lamenting how she had quarrelled with her father to the point that she recently moved out to live with a friend.

"She said she was always scared of her dad, she was always scared of her brother ... and she's not scared of nobody," said classmate Ashley Garbutt, 16.

"She didn't want to go home ... to the point where she actually wanted to go to shelters."

Friends said the root of her problems was a desire to blend in with friends at school, to wear the fashionable clothes she liked to buy on trips to Toronto's garment district, where she went with friends just last month.

"She liked fashion," said Mitchell. "We went to different stores; she was shopping; she bought lots of clothes."

"She loved clothes, she loved shopping and she loved taking pictures of herself," classmate Dominiquia Holmes-Thompson, 16, said outside the school as friends sobbed at the news.

"She just wanted to show her beauty. She just wanted freedom, freedom from her parents."

"She just wanted to dress like us, just like a normal person," said Holmes-Thompson.

"She was a very kind person, she was really nice; everybody loved her."

Friend Shianne Phillips, 16, said she last spoke with Aqsa on Friday.

"She was crying and she was like `I'm really scared to go home. I don't know what I'm going to do.' And that was it," Phillips said.

Muhammad Parvez, 57, is to appear in a Brampton court today where he is expected to be formally charged.

Sad indeed!!!!
Some of these immigrant muslim parents tend to over react and they fail to listen to thier children. Forcing your child to wear the Hijab is not the correct thing to do and we have witness some of these girls taking off the scarf as soon as they away from the eyesight of thier parents.

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this is so sad, acutally they're disussing this on CFRB.

I just heard that she died..

yep, he choked her...
she is dead

he will do his time in with a hijab on i hope...he may have to wear one on his rear

so sad.
dem friggin ppl bring dem piknee yasuh and dem want dem to continue living like dem live a dem back home country[] [/

It's a shame when a piece of cloth means more to a human than another human!
Sad..real sad

Hey Cherie

how u doing me dear?

give me regards to all

i bought cards and shoulda write them instead of sittin here readin

This is so sad!!!

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Muhammad Parvez, 57, is to appear in a Brampton court today where he is expected to be formally charged.

these people are worse than animals, to take the life of their own offspring in such a barbaric manner.

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I just heard that she died..

Breaking News: 16-Year-Old Mississauga Girl Succumbs To Injuries

A 16-year-old girl attacked in her own Mississauga home on Monday has succumbed to her injuries.
Aqsa Parvez died late Monday night.
Her father, 57-year-old Muhammad Parvez, was arrested at the scene and will now face murder charges.
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Do you blame the man or the patriarchal society? He likely was taught and lived all his life with the mentality that he owned the women in his family. We know much worse goes on in his country and of course that does not excuse his deplorable behavior. To eliminate this type of occurrence some serious social engineering is necessary.

I have said enough about these things. 30 years ago, he probably didn't see not wearing the hijab as something worth killing his own daughter over.

Hijab is an arab wear and non-arabs are killing their picknees over it.

Hang the Bastard. People like him need to stay in the "Sand and Camel" Enviroment.

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Hijab is an arab wear and non-arabs are killing their picknees over it.

Once again you are wrong.

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Originally posted by ksazma:

Hijab is an arab wear and non-arabs are killing their picknees over it.

Once again you are wrong.

Thankfully not more wrong that the guy who just killed his daughter.

Thankfully I don't live in the sands of Arabia.

Ksaz, while in this case the hijab is what caused the incident, I don’t think the hijab is the real problem here…some of them kill for even less. It’s all about control.

Chief, question for you…is hijab a religious or cultural garment? I’ve seen veil mentioned in the Quran but not hijab.

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I’ve seen veil mentioned in the Quran but not hijab.

Veil is correct.

I do not see any difference in the name, whether is hijab, veif or anything else.

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Originally posted by ksazma:
I have said enough about these things. 30 years ago, he probably didn't see not wearing the hijab as something worth killing his own daughter over.

Hijab is an arab wear and non-arabs are killing their picknees over it.

oh lawd... even if th man nah kill he daughter dem gun say he kill um. let's wait and see...

Bulbul, Nah Ah Jumbie killed her!!!

I see many of you are jumping on the issue of the hijab being the reason why the young lady was killed however the rest of the article states that she was having serious problems with her parents. We will not know the real reasons for the confrontation all because the media and all the leeches are so obsessed with the hijab.

This is not the first time that a father has attacked his child because of clash of customs, however in this case the child died.

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Originally posted by Chief:
I see many of you are jumping on the issue of the hijab being the reason why the young lady was killed however the rest of the article states that she was having serious problems with her parents. We will not know the real reasons for the confrontation all because the media and all the leeches are so obsessed with the hijab.

This is not the first time that a father has attacked his child because of clash of customs, however in this case the child died.

please don't make an excuse for a father killin his child..it is despicable to kill your child,,,whatever the reason

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states that she was having serious problems with her parents

no reason to kill her

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Originally posted by Chief:
I see many of you are jumping on the issue of the hijab being the reason why the young lady was killed however the rest of the article states that she was having serious problems with her parents. We will not know the real reasons for the confrontation all because the media and all the leeches are so obsessed with the hijab.

This is not the first time that a father has attacked his child because of clash of customs, however in this case the child died.

Bai, you know how popular muslims are around the world, there are many sicko in Canada, the man is innocent until proven Gulity, I would liek to see the evidence they come with up with and then they can jump to conclusion...

Well said Bul-BUL.