PrintDecember 12, 2007
Celebrating diversity (continued)
The glorious mosaic strikes again. From Canada.com:
A Mississauga, Ont. man will be formally charged on Tuesday with murder in connection with the death of his 16-year-old daughter.The girl, Aqsa Parvez, was in critical condition on Monday after being strangled, apparently after a dispute with her family over her refusal to wear the hijab, the Islamic headscarf worn by some Muslim women.However Peel Regional Police said Tuesday the girl died late Monday night.
The Toronto Star is full of sympathy - for the hijab:
...members of the community - particularly young Muslim women - say the tension can exist both ways.Ausma Khan, the editor-in-chief of Toronto-based Muslim Girl magazine, said research into the readership of her publication shows that the decision to wear the hijab - the traditional Muslim headscarf - is almost always a choice the girl makes on her own."We have also heard from other girls saying that they don't know if they want to wear it and that they're unsure and that there is community or family pressure to wear it," she said, but stressed that type of response was in the minority.Maryam Rana, 20, a student at the University of Toronto's Mississauga campus, said she has been wearing the hijab since she was in Grade 3 and was not very receptive to it at first. [....]
Does anyone else remember the ladies on The View, including Whoopi Goldberg, solemnly informing us, after Sudanese mobs demanded the execution of the British schoolteacher, that everyone calls us the "ugly Americans" because we don't take the trouble to learn about and respect the cultures of countries overseas.
If the Toronto Star is going to talk about "going both ways", how about immigrants respecting the ways of the country to which they have moved?
This is far from the first time such an incident has occurred on our continent.
Hat tips: Richard Baehr, Ed Lasky, Little Green Footballs
Hat tips: Richard Baehr, Ed Lasky, Little Green Footballs
