How a sixteen year-old Muslim girl, murdered in an honor killing, continues to be abused by her family in death as she was in life.
By Jamie Glazov
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Pamela Geller, founder, editor and publisher of the popular and award-winning weblog AtlasShrugs.com. She has won acclaim for her interviews with internationally renowned figures, including John Bolton, Geert Wilders, Bat Ye'or, Natan Sharansky, and many others, and has broken numerous important stories -- notably the questionable sources of some of the financing of the Obama campaign. Her op-eds have been published in The Washington Times, The American Thinker, Israel National News, Frontpage Magazine, World Net Daily, and New Media Journal, among other publications.
FP: Pamela Geller, welcome back to Frontpage Interview.
In December 2007, a young girl by the name of Aqsa Parvez was murdered by her father in an honor killing in Toronto. Today she lies in an unmarked grave. Why? Tell us about the case.
Geller: Aqsa Parvez, a Grade 11 student was strangled to death by her 57-year-old father, Muhammad Parvez. Aqsa’s 26-year-old brother, Waqas Parvez, has been charged as well.
In the fall of 2007, Aqsa Parvez went back and forth between friends’ houses and youth shelters. She had been afraid to go home. Her father was enraged because she refused to obey his rules, and he had promised he would kill her.
On the morning of December 10, Aqsa waited at a Mississauga bus shelter with a friend she had been staying with. As they waited, Aqsa’s 26-year-old brother Waqas pulled up at the bus stop. He said that she should come home and get a fresh change of clothes if she was going to be staying elsewhere. Aqsa did not want to at first, but then got into his car. Less than an hour later, Muhammad Parvez called 911 and told the dispatcher that he had killed his daughter. Read more ...
By Jamie Glazov
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Pamela Geller, founder, editor and publisher of the popular and award-winning weblog AtlasShrugs.com. She has won acclaim for her interviews with internationally renowned figures, including John Bolton, Geert Wilders, Bat Ye'or, Natan Sharansky, and many others, and has broken numerous important stories -- notably the questionable sources of some of the financing of the Obama campaign. Her op-eds have been published in The Washington Times, The American Thinker, Israel National News, Frontpage Magazine, World Net Daily, and New Media Journal, among other publications.
FP: Pamela Geller, welcome back to Frontpage Interview.
In December 2007, a young girl by the name of Aqsa Parvez was murdered by her father in an honor killing in Toronto. Today she lies in an unmarked grave. Why? Tell us about the case.
Geller: Aqsa Parvez, a Grade 11 student was strangled to death by her 57-year-old father, Muhammad Parvez. Aqsa’s 26-year-old brother, Waqas Parvez, has been charged as well.
In the fall of 2007, Aqsa Parvez went back and forth between friends’ houses and youth shelters. She had been afraid to go home. Her father was enraged because she refused to obey his rules, and he had promised he would kill her.
On the morning of December 10, Aqsa waited at a Mississauga bus shelter with a friend she had been staying with. As they waited, Aqsa’s 26-year-old brother Waqas pulled up at the bus stop. He said that she should come home and get a fresh change of clothes if she was going to be staying elsewhere. Aqsa did not want to at first, but then got into his car. Less than an hour later, Muhammad Parvez called 911 and told the dispatcher that he had killed his daughter. Read more ...
Source: FPM