The Canadian Court found three members of a family (Mohammad Shafia, 58; his wife Tooba Yahya, 42; and their son Hamed, 21) guilty of killing three teenage sisters (Zainab, 19, Sahar 17, and Geeti, 13) as well as Rona Amir Mohammad, 52, Shafia’s childless first wife in a polygamous marriage.
Prosecutors said the defendants killed the four women because they dishonored the family by defying its strict rules on dress, dating, socializing and using the Internet. Prosecutors added that the defendants drowned their victims, then placed their bodies in the car and pushed it into the canal. [1]
The local press printed police transcripts of a ranting Mr. Shafia calling his daughters "whores" and boasting, "nothing is more dear to me than my honor." [2]
More than 80 Canadian Muslim organizations, imams and community leaders signed a call for action late last year against “the reality of domestic violence within our own communities, compounded by abhorrent and yet persistent pre-Islamic practices rooted in the misguided notion of restoring family honor.”[1]
References (news sources)
[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/at-least-one-member-of-afghan-family-to-appeal-verdict-in-canadian-honor-killing-case/2012/01/30/gIQAHRR3cQ_story.html
[2] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203920204577191321206664022.html
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