Chris Wattie filed this earlier story:

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.

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archiv...pute-over-hijab.aspx

I also posted this on social. I took it from a poster on another site.


This is quite a shocking story and very sad indeed that a young girl lost her life at the hands of her father. But we must also remember that we haven't heard the full story yet and for the most part, we only have hearsay from the girl's friends and the father's co-worker, the only facts we know at the moment are that Aqsa Parvez, a 16 year old girl, has died at the hands of her father.

For all we know, the girl's friends may have just made the conclusion that "dad doesn't like daughter wearing hijab=dad wants to kill daughter". They don't seem very trustworthy to me. Maybe the father, like Safiah mentioned, was stressed out from work plus not knowing how to deal with a rebellious daughter in Canada, and just snapped? I know personally how hard it is to deal with a teenager because I remember how I acted when I was 14. I pissed my mother off so bad one day that she snapped and choked me. And trust me, it wasn't a case of crazy, strict parent vs. defenseless child, I was in the wrong, and my mom still apologizes to me to this day over the incident.

Firstly, I want to make absolutely clear that I believe that this man should be punished for what he has done to the fullest extent of the law. He has no right to kill anyone, the least of which his own child. This is a horrible act and I pray for Aqsa that Allah SWT forgive her her sins and grant her heaven, ameen. BUT.......

Basically, what I am trying to say, and I realize I'll probably have some heated replies to this, is to not pass judgment so quick when we don't know the facts. We also have to remember that disobeying your parents is a major sin in Islam, and we also have to realize that to a certain extent, what our children do, will also affect us in terms of our good deeds and bad deeds. If we raise them wrong and don't instill the deen in them, it will also be a sin upon us, which is why it is very important to lead by example when it comes to raising our children.

This man, Muhammad Parvez, has allegedly committed a horrendous crime. However, he is still our brother in Islam, and we should give him 70 excuses, just like anyone else. We also need to be there for the rest of the family, especially the mother, as Safiah mentioned, she is obviously suffering the worst, as she has just lost a husband and a daughter. And he doesn't not need the Muslim community to turn its back on him, he needs us to support him and be there for him. This is a man who has been described by a co-worker as a devout Muslim who stopped work to pray. Does this sound like a cold-hearted killer? Only time will tell, but to me, this doesn't seem like a clear-cut case of "psycho-religious-control-freak father".

So, in conclusion, 3 things I'm trying to convey to you....

1. Don't be so quick to pass judgment until you know all the facts.

2. Give your brothers and sisters 70 excuses.

3. Pray and make du'a to Allah SWT for the entire Parvez family, especially Aqsa and her mother, but even the father, because while he may have done a terrible thing, we also need to remember that Allah SWT forgives all sins except one, and that is associating a partner with Allah, also known as shirk. That means that Allah forgives even murderers. Maybe Muhammad Parvez can get guidance from Allah and be forgiven for this heinous crime.


P.S. I noticed that I got the impression from a few posters that they were more concerned with the image of Islam being tarnished as a result of this situation, rather than being concerned with this Muslim family being suddenly torn apart. We should be more concerned with the Parvez family at this moment, forget about what kind of spin the "western media" puts on this. Allah SWT will protect His deen, so we need not worry about such matters at this time. Sorry about the long, winding post, but I have so much I want say about this. Salam alaikum.

The three points that man makes are important. Again, I deplore what he did...but that is done. The family needs help...the father will get what is coming to him.
This is why, in the shariah, when a person is sentenced, ONLY that which is prescribed is supposed to be done. For example, a thief who is punished is so punished..but if a person from the crowd throws a rock or insults him, that person can be liable to prosecution.

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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.

This is the nonsense the West like to peddle.

The issue is that girl ran away from home and was living with somebody. She return home for her clothes and had an altercation. Has nothing to with her wearing a hijab.

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Originally posted by Terry Ishmael:

This is the nonsense the West like to peddle.

the real non sense is carried out by her family trying to impose their belief on someone else. This family should have remained in their native country and live under that country tradition.

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Originally posted by Terry Ishmael:

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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.

This is the nonsense the West like to peddle.

The issue is that girl ran away from home and was living with somebody. She return home for her clothes and had an altercation. Has nothing to with her wearing a hijab.

...like flies on honey.

You guys have to remember the article posted above was from the Isreali Post. It is one of the most blatant anti muslim publications in Canada. It boggles my mind why they are not charged for hate crimes.

I was fortunate/unfortunate to get a free subscription(yes, the give it away for free) while at a trade show a few years ago. After a few weeks, I was so pissed about their reporting of the Palestinian uprisng, I called and asked for it to be stopped. They were flabbergasted as to why I would want to stop a free subscription. I was passed on to a few departments and finally to a brother from the Islands. We started chatting about my refusal to get a free copy of the papers and he was dishing out the standard line about being open to different opions etc. I then launched into a tirade about the difference between varying opinons and outright racism in their reporting. After about 15 minutes, the man congratulated me and said that he will make sure that they never call me again.

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Originally posted by Abu Jihad:
You guys have to remember the article posted above was from the Isreali Post. It is one of the most blatant anti muslim publications in Canada. It boggles my mind why they are not charged for hate crimes.

other news agency carry the same article. .... it was not originated from Israeli Post. Anyway which way that is the least of the problem.

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Originally posted by Aragorn:

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Originally posted by Abu Jihad:
You guys have to remember the article posted above was from the Isreali Post. It is one of the most blatant anti muslim publications in Canada. It boggles my mind why they are not charged for hate crimes.

other news agency carry the same article. .... it was not originated from Israeli Post. Anyway which way that is the least of the problem.

The national post is refered to as the Isreali Post. It founder is Isreal Asper. the first step in objectivity is to know your source.

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Originally posted by Abu Jihad:

The national post is refered to as the Isreali Post. It founder is Isreal Asper. the first step in objectivity is to know your source.

that may be true ... but it was not originally/originate from the national post. Google the article. A canadian press first reported the story the exact way.

Is that your way to divert the real issue?

Google Israel Asper and you will get your answer. Yesterday, they were carrying crap form idiots like Tarek Fatah who is the biggest jackass I have ever listened to. The man is so high on himself, he got his whole head stuck up his ass :):)

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Originally posted by Abu Jihad:
Google Israel Asper and you will get your answer. Yesterday, they were carrying crap form idiots like Tarek Fatah who is the biggest jackass I have ever listened to. The man is so high on himself, he got his whole head stuck up his ass :):)

this is not about Asper.

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Originally posted by Aragorn:

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Originally posted by Abu Jihad:

The national post is refered to as the Isreali Post. It founder is Isreal Asper. the first step in objectivity is to know your source.

that may be true ... but it was not originally/originate from the national post. Google the article. A canadian press first reported the story the exact way.

Is that your way to divert the real issue?

You are saying the real issue is about hijab wearing?

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Originally posted by Terry Ishmael:

You are saying the real issue is about hijab wearing?

killing

The title of this thread says she was killed because of hijab wearing. That seems to be the focal point.