Aqsa to grind

By Mark Steyn

For reasons best known to himself, The National Post's Chris Selley chose to pick a fight with the few people who want to ensure that Aqsa Parvez's short life is memorialized by something more than the plot number of an unmarked grave. Pamela Geller and Kathy Shaidle can take care of themselves, and have done, but the reality is that if it weren't for the frothing loony ranting wackjob haters of the blogosphere a 16-year old girl murdered for not wanting to be imprisoned by her family's culture would be entirely forgotten.

So what's more offensive? The moral outrage of Pamela Geller at the westernization of "honor killing"? Or the mainstream coverage by a politically correct media? Here's what the lunchtime poll at Toronto's CITY-TV thought was the big issue arising from Aqsa Parvez's murder:

Do you think society discriminates against women who wear a hijab?

Gotcha. It's our fault.

Here's the weirdly contorted lengths Canada's Number One news anchor, CTV's Lloyd Robertson, went to to avoid telling his viewers Aqsa Parvez had been strangled?

Her neck was compressed, to the point she couldn't breathe. Read more ...

Source: Steyn Online
Chris Selley
Latest recipient of The Dhimmi Award

Should honorcide be classified as a hate crime?
	I am a Muslim
	Yes
	No
	No: any female dishonoring her family must be disciplined
	No: any female dishonoring her family must severely punished
	No: any female dishonoring her family must be put to death
	No: honorcide is a fiction
	I am not a Muslim
	Yes
	No
	No: any female dishonoring her family must be disciplined
	No: any female dishonoring her family must severely punished
	No: any female dishonoring her family must be put to death
	No: honorcide is a fiction