Unless we recognize the problem for what it really is and change the Criminal Code to specifically address honour killings in Canada, they will continue to exist merely as "a complex, difficult-to-eradicate phenomenon"
Against the backdrop of the Shafia honour-killing trial in Kingston, Montreal's Concordia University graduate Sikander Ziad Hashmi, an imam with the Islamic Society of Kingston, tells us "there is no such thing as 'honour killing' in Islam." Last week, Hashmi challenged readers of Canada's National Post Full Commentonline to find one classical Islamic religious text that endorses the murder of a family member to preserve honour. PointdeBascule in Montreal answers the imam's request by producing not one, but TWO Islamic texts stating that a father who kills his child must NOT be subject to punishment ("retaliation").
