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I recently read an item in the newspaper abut a single mother in Brockville, Ontario who is unable to force her 13-year old son to get out of bed in the morning and go to school. She even went so far as to contact the Ontario Provincial Police, who dispatched a constable to the home to see if he could convince the kid to go to school. No dice. The cop left the house telling the mother there was nothing he could legally do to force the boy to attend classes.

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For weeks now, Tamil protesters have been closing down large areas of the busiest parts of Toronto in efforts to convince the government of Canada to convince the government of Sri Lanka to stop pursuing Tamil Tiger terrorists in that country, lest innocent lives be lost. The group even went so far as to shut down one of the main expressways within the city of Toronto, putting themselves, as well as thousands of innocent and uninvolved Torontonians in potential danger. These protests have been ongoing for well over a month, while City of Toronto officials have insisted the demonstrations were perfectly legal and the Tamil protesters were merely exercising their civil rights. The one thing that David Miller, the mayor of Toronto, frowned upon was the protesters’ seizure of the Gardiner Expressway, not because it essentially shut down the city, but it was “dangerous” for the protesters and others. Currently in Ottawa one Hasibullah Sadiqi is standing trial for two counts of first-degree murder in the honor killing of his sister Khatera and her fiancée Feroz Mangal. The interesting thing about this case is that Mr. Sadiqi’s lawyers do not deny the facts of the case. To wit that Mr. Sadiqi executed his sister and her fiancée, using a .44 cal. magnum handgun, while they were sitting in Mr. Mangal’s vehicle, after the two had dinner with Mr. Sadiqi. The defense contends that Mr. Sadiqi is not guilty of first-degree murder because his family’s honor was at stake, given that his sister did not have the blessings of her father in the decision to marry Mr. Mangal. During the ongoing trial, evidence was offered by a so-called “expert” witness who testified that in certain traditional societies, such as Afghanistan, where the Sadiqi family is from, a family’s honor can be redeemed through an act of “purifying through blood”. The witness, Prof. Sharzad Mojab of the University of Toronto, who has studied the topic of honor killings extensively, told the court that this was one of the ways male family members use to control their women. So on the one hand, a mother can’t legally force a 13-year-old (!) child to attend school, but thousands of protesters who object to events occurring 14,000 kilometers away are entitled to inconvenience the 2.5 million residents of Toronto, just to make a point, and a guy executes two people in cold blood, using an illegally obtained weapon to do so, and then claims that it wasn’t really murder it was a multi-cult thing. It doesn’t take an overly complicated thought process to realize that if conditions such as the ones cited above are really happening in today’s Canada and everyone involved has a straight face, then something is terribly amiss. Isn’t there a law on the books that children must attend school, at least until age 16, at which point they may choose to be emancipated? Don’t the people protesting in the streets of Toronto have jobs, or is the welfare regimen in Canada so generous that one is able to go out and protest every day for weeks on end, all the while keeping thousands of their productive and hard-working neighbors from reaching their jobs? And isn’t the taking of a life in Canada prohibited under any circumstances, particularly if the perpetrator goes out and acquires an illegal handgun and then lies in wait for his victims? Doesn’t that show some element of premeditation? Or is premeditation out the window in cases if disobedient Muslim women? What’s wrong with this picture?