Brutal ‘Honor Killing’ Described in Canadian Trial for Muslim Father Accused of Murdering Three Daughters & Wife
- Posted on October 23, 2011 at 11:39am by
Sharona Schwartz
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A Canadian jury heard chilling details from prosecutors who accuse Afghan immigrant Mohammad Shafia of killing his three daughters and his first wife, whom he considered to be dishonoring the family. Prosecutors say his son and his second wife helped him commit and then cover up the crime.
On June 30, 2009, the bodies of 19-year-old Zainab Shafia, 17-year-old Sahar Shafia, 13-year-old Geeti Shafia and 50-year-old Rona Amir Mohammad were found inside a Nissan submerged in a canal in Kingston, Ontario. They were on their way home from a family trip to Niagara Falls.
CTV reports on the opening day of the trial:
Crown prosecutors began framing the deaths of three teenage girls and their father’s first wife as an “honour killing” in an Ontario courtroom on Thursday, more than two years after the victims were found submerged in the Rideau Canal near Kingston, Ont.
It‘s expected that the honour killing narrative will be key to the prosecution’s case against the accused family members: Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41, husband Mohammad Shafia, 58, and son, Hamed Mohammad Shafia.
All three face four counts each of first-degree murder, and all three have pleaded not guilty to those charges.
Evidence included a Google search from the wealthy businessman’s home computer about “where to commit a murder” and if a prisoner can continue to control his real estate properties.
Prosecutors quoted incriminating taped conversations between the husband and wife. From CTV:
Other conversations, secretly recorded by police, reveal that the girls’ father felt betrayed because his daughters had boyfriends, Crown attorney Laurie Lacelle said.
“Even if they hoist me up onto the gallows, nothing is more dear to me than my honour,” Shafia said, according to Lacelle…
Lacelle continued to quote Shafia: “There can be no treachery, no violation more than this … They committed treason from beginning to end. They betrayed humankind. They betrayed Islam…They betrayed everything.”
Shafia also told his wife: “God’s curse on them for generations. May the devil s— on their graves. Is that what a daughter should be? Would a daughter be such a whore?”
The family purchased the Nissan for $5,000 just days before the killing, another piece of evidence prosecutors are using to demonstrate premeditation.
What evoked their father’s wrath was the daughters’ “Western lifestyle,” including an interest in dating boys and a lack of interest in wearing a traditional Muslim headscarf, the hijab.
According to the Toronto Sun, at one point, daughter Zainab was kept home from school for a year after a boy visited her at home when her father was out.
In 2008, child and youth protective services investigated after a call by school officials but closed the case. On a separate occasion, the children contacted police to report physical abuse at home.
At the canal crime scene, police found plastic shards from a smashed headlight which matched another family car, a Lexus, suggesting the Nissan was nudged into the canal by the Lexus. Prosecutors indicate Shafia tried to stage a fake accident to dispose of the bodies of his daughters and first wife.
After realizing his first wife Rona couldn’t bear children, Shafia married a second wife Tooba (now on trial with him) as is common in the Muslim world. The Globe and Mail reports:
The Shafia family lived in a polygamous arrangement and moved to Canada in 2007, settling in the Montreal borough of St. Leonard after living in Australia, Pakistan and then in Dubai for 15 years.
The Shafias had seven children, three of whom were placed in care by Quebec authorities after their parents’ arrest. All seven are the offspring of Mr. Shafia and Ms. Yahya, whom he married in Afghanistan in 1988.
This is not the first time this Muslim tradition has been imported to North America. Recent “honor killing” cases include:
In October 2009, Iraqi immigrant Faleh Al-Maleki used his car to run over and kill his 20-year-old daughter Noor in Peoria, Ariz. Prosecutors said it was an honor killing because her father felt she shamed the family by becoming “too Westernized” and rejecting an arranged marriage.
Also that year, Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan — the founder of a Muslim television station in Buffalo, NY — was convicted of stabbing his wife Aasiya 40 times, then beheading her while their children were waiting in a parked car outside. He had founded the TV station to counter negative stereotypes about Islam after 9/11.
























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ssanda
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:11pmIslam=religion of peace and tolerance!
Report Post »dogpatch65
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:21pmOh sure, this is just the continuation of the spread of Islam, and you know, honestly, we deserve it to a certain extent. We permit all of this. Really, we in the west can be silly to the point of extinction at times. We elected Obama, after all, and look what he’s doing:
Report Post »http://markamerica.com/2011/10/22/barack-obama-making-the-arab-world-safe-for-caliphate/
PATRIOTGRUNT
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 2:19pm@JUNKMAN. AMEN , sorry meant to say. ALLAH AKHBAR . Want to keep my head you know.
Report Post »Bro Geo Too
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:08pmIf “good” Muslims routinely do that to their wives and children, how much more will they punish us infidels? Islam, or rather, Is Lame is a cancer upon the world wielded by Satan.
Report Post »Devil Dog 7175
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:19pmHes not a good muslim… hes still breathing.
Report Post »Bro Geo Too
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:41pmYou’re right–thanks for the correction..
Report Post »countrygirl3519
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 2:17pmNO kidding it is the opposite of good that is for sure . I love you too dad dang nothing could be an excuse for this or any of there so called honor killing wrong is wrong , why do they come here if they are afraid of them coming to westernized hope my girl gets big enough to shoot back if these idiots come around here die free or trying to be i say they can keep there rags on there heads ill wipe my butt with mine LOL
Report Post »snowflake220
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:07pmIn Irving, TX near where I live a father shot and killed his two daughters to keep his honor. Listen to the horrible 911 call of the oldest daughter saying she is dying.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=honor+killing+in+texas&mid=C68A06AE042B9B98F644C68A06AE042B9B98F644&view=detail&FORM=VIRE2
Report Post »rc30
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:07pmThis is BS. They come here and try to live under there laws of there missed up country. We need to be hard on people like this. Bring the hammer down on them. Religion of peace my ass.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 12:56amOh, but then we would be racist and profiling, right? I agree with you 100% If they commit such crimes they need to be held accountable. I would bet none will receive the death sentaence. God forbid we would enforce that on them!
Report Post »raderby
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:06pmstudy his face, and study his eyes. Infidels be warned.
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 3:21pmHis face has nothing but contempt on it, anyone who murders in cold blood like this guy and BOTH his wife and son should in turn be subject to capital punishment. After their guilt has been proven, to the gallows or a firing squad for them, people like that are already a menace to society.
Report Post »sharonl
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:04pmAnd they argue that they worship the same God as Christians – my God does not have a split personality – tells one group to chop off heads,chop off hands, kill children, kill wives. My God is a God of love and to say they worship the same God is an insult to God.
Report Post »Steve
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:17pmTheir god is a mood idol stolen from the time of Baal.
http://www.letusreason.org/islam6.htm
Report Post »ZengaPA65
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:23pmUmmm… you actually ever READ the Bible?
Report Post »TheVoice1
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:44pmVery good post Steve…info at the site is very accurate….Well done.
Report Post »docmd
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 1:51pmTheir god is satan himself !!! islam the ULTIMATE ANTICHRIST RELIGION wake up america before its too late ………..
Report Post »walleye01
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 2:05pmtrue our God is a God of peace & love…FOR ALL!!! God hates the sin but loves the sinner…1 soul is more valuable than all the world’s real estate combined, Jesus said for what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 9:31pmOur prisons are filled with murderers who believe in God[allah means God] and in Jesus Christ.
Report Post »GdHUs
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 1:56amRose Ellen, you can’t be that ignorant. Believing in God doesn’t make one a Christian. After all, the devil believes in God. A Christian is a person who follows the teachings of Jesus. Liberals use your logic to paint Christianity as evil, and it’s such a shallow approach.One of your favorite examples is the Spanish Inquisition. Oh, those evil Christians. Murdering and torturing tens of thousands of those innocent people. Yeah they called themselves Christians, but would Jesus have called them that? If your answer is yes then you don’t know my savior.
Report Post »Steve
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 2:12amrose-ellen
OK everyone. Deep breath and nowwwwwww STretchhhhhh 2 and 3 stretchhhhhhh 2 and 3…..
Nice try rose-ellen. No matter where you go I will follow you with fact based historical evidence to shoot your Islamic butt down. You are a liar and a deceiver. You hold no weight here. No One believes a thing you post. We know who you are.
Report Post »Steve
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 2:20amGdHUs
no no no….My all time favorite is when rose-ellen (big fat hairy Muslim guy who claims he’s a catholic girl sitting in a basement with Cheeto crumbs on his dirty unwashed rag tag beard and camel gravy stains on his chest collecting a paycheck from Hamas every time he posts) says we’re all good little Germans When in fact it was the Muslim Brotherhood who collaborated with Hitler during the final solution murdering millions of Jews. And he thinks people buy it. That’s the funny part he really thinks we understand his side of his lies.
Report Post »GdHUs
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 1:43pmSTEVE: thanks for illuminating. By the way, that Let Us Reason post was pure dynamite.
Report Post »Sharlene
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:04pmI don’t think Canada has the death penalty. If Canada did have the death penalty, and they were found guilty of murder, they should pay with their lives exactly the same way their victims were murdered.
Report Post »toto
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 1:46pmAbsolutely no leniency should be given because of their beliefs and customs. Period. This is where the nonsense has to stop. If they want to live under Sharia law, them they should live in a Muslim country. Any immigrating Muslim should be required to pledge adherence to laws of the place to which they are coming. If they say the Sharia is supreme, don’t let them in. Why do we even think that it is a good and wise thing to let them come anyway, they add nothing and are disruptive to and disdainful of Western life. Can someone explain that to me?
Report Post »netmail
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 4:32pmRemember the Air Force general in Canada who murdered several women and snuck in to hundreds of houses to steal women’s underware? (He actually flew a plane for Queen Elizabeth) Anyhow, he has one of the most diabolical minds in history and he’ll be eligible for parole one day. Liberalism is a sure sign of a rotten society….and also a society with no justice.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 7:10pmTOTO: A few things to remember when dealing with islamics….lying to “infidels” is perfectly ok. Any oath of citizenship from an islamist is a LIE. Immigration from enemy countries (Syria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Lebanon, Yemen, U.A.E., Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, ANY ISLAMIST COUNTRY, should be stopped immediately!
Report Post »MerryJ1
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 2:17amCanada has no death penalty, and will not allow extradition to the US of an American arrested and held in Canada but charged with a capital crime here. They refused the US request for extradition of infamous serial killer Charles Ng, half of a “love slave killers” team with Leonard Lake (both from California — where else would they be from?) until the death penalty was taken off the table by US prosecutors. Lake and Ng videotaped their butchery, including slaughtering a husband and child in front of the wife and mother, then chaining the woman in a fruit cellar for numerous rape-fests until they tired of her, replaced her with fresh meat, and slaughtered her, too. Lake committed suicide in a police station while they were processing his misdemeanor arrest (which would have shown the auto and ID he was using belonged to one of his murder victims) by swallowing a cyanide-filled capsule he took from his pocket after requesting a glass of water.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 2:32pmOf course they collaborated with hitler. They saw zionist european interlopers as a threat to them-which it was. The irish also collaborated with hitler because they were struggling agsinst the british for hundreds of yrs. so what?
Report Post »of course faith in christ’s divinity is not suffient for salvation-remorse for sins and a sincere desire to amend one’s life is also part of Christianity. A muslim who does not believe in honor killings can also claim that those who do are not abiding by islam.And professed chrisrians commit crimes like everyone else. Only God knows all hearts and who inherits the Kingdom of God reseved for those who love God[and show it by doing His will. And demonizing and dehumanizing muslims is not doing His will ,by the way..
By your logic if i claim you're a CIA spy or wife beater or genocdial anti arab zionist-then nothing you say has any credibility either.It's all propaganda.I stand by my statement-and Allah is the arabic word for God used by arab jews and arab christians and i'm a practicing catholic.And i support the least of my brothers-the muslims who today the rabid right is launching an anti-semitic[anti arab] genocidal campaign against.
paperpushermj
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:03pmME, racist, anti-semitic little-old-trailer-trash me,
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raderby
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:03pmfriednly looking guy. I would reference the maniac that beheaded his wife in Orchard Park, NY. (after stabbing her 40 times in 47 seconds) THat guy owned a TV station, to promote muslims. Read what the guy did to protect his “honor”…… religion of peace……..(POS)
The Toronto-Niagara-Buffalo NY muslim invasion link is well established. The Lackawanna 6 in 2001 are a mild stone’s throw away – all hubbed around Toronto, CAN and Buffalo, NY.
Report Post »Go look up how many mosques have been built in the last 10-15 years around Buffalo. Thing is, in Canada, a country that has already lost to sharia, this guy might walk! BE WARNED – the “slow plan” of the islamization of the USA is rolling.
hi
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:01pmMuslims worship Satan.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:12pmAKA
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db321
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 1:25pmThey worship a false profit Mohamed – and those that read the Bible knows what happens to them that worship a false profit.
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 2:55pmThey worship the god of abraham
Report Post »Charles
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 8:24pmMuslims worship alla who known as the moon god. Its not the God of Abraham
Report Post »dvlfrmdnvr
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:00pmIslam is the religion of PEACE?
Report Post »The “peace” referred to in this statement is the “peace” that will come after the entire world has been conquered by islam and all the infidels have been converted or executed.
Miyegombo Bayartsogt
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:33pmOn that day the only discordant sound will be the wailing of the beaten wives.
Report Post »dvlfrmdnvr
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 1:46pmI pray that day never comes
Report Post »CottonMPG
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 11:58amSince this is Canada they will probably find him guilty and sentence him to 3 yrs suspended for the killings of each woman then apologize for giving him 6 mos in prison for littering with possible water pollution and improper disposal of bodies.
Who knows what they’ll do to the second wife. Maybe her lawyer will argue that she had to help or be murdered for being disloyal and she’ll get off free. Of course he might blame her for him getting caught so she’d be better off in prison.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 7:15pmMy solution…feed the son and second wife into a wood chipper, one at a time, feet first, while the murdering SOB of a “father” watches, and then feed him to it….feed the remains to starving pigs….I’d be happy to buy the bacon!
Report Post »MerryJ1
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 2:26amThose three girls were HER daughters — the first wife (and murder victim) could not have children, and they were sisters to the pos son who helped “defend Daddy’s (alleged) honor.”
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 11:57amThe Blood god needs to be Feed.
Report Post »Steve
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 11:57amWhat are the odds any of us will see a rose-ellen post here?
Report Post »raderby
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:04pmRosie should become the 3rd wife of this guy.
Report Post »Devil Dog 7175
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:09pmToo bad she wasn’t a daughter of this moron.
Report Post »Steve
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:27pmWho to say rose-ellen‘s not some fat smelly islamist guy sitting in some basement who hasn’t taken a shower in 6 weeks. Collecting a pay check from Hamas to post on sites such as this spreading it’s anti American lies and promoting Islam under the guise as a little catholic girl.
Report Post »TheVoice1
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:27pmRight…not much Rose can say about this…and the rest of the family helped him do it. Truth has no agenda
Report Post »Devil Dog 7175
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 5:49pm@Steve… Gotta good point there bro. As my dear departed dad used to say… Yer using your head for something other then a hat rack, LOL…
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 9:46pmOf course I believe he deserves the death penalty for what he did;But americans kill every day too. For reasons just as pride filled as honor killings and including honor killings.Here we tend to call murderers mentally ill, that’s the only real difference. We‘re wimping out in terms of applying the death penalty for murderers and there’s a media propaganda campaign to abolish it and get americans to not believe in it any more.And it’s not that unusual, historically when immigrants come here their children who assimilate to american culture run afoul of their parents and murder results.I don’t understand how he could do or even want to do what he did. But i don’t understand it when any one murders [lacy peterson on chrismas eve,remember]And the smugness when caught!Yes I’m catholic and Allah is just the arabic word for God-used by christians and Jews too in arab speaking countries].
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 11:57amThis is very normal and necessary by decree for muslims. Read a Koran. Should be no surprise to anyone.
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 11:56amCanada AND the U.S. need to raise their expectations and demands of those allowed into the western world culture. Diversity is something best pursued in ones diet.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 6:33amObumbler and Hilrod are big fans of the Muslim Brotherhood and nice peace loving group who believe that Sharia Law should be the primary source of law for all people who will live in the Caliphate. And believe in the spread of Islam to be only religion in the world. They want to spread their religion by any means available. This reliigion of peace and love will kill anyone who disagrees.
Hilrod and Obumbler are backing the brotherhood and assisting them in their revolution.
OMG
Report Post »Notsobright
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 11:56amhe should die the same way he killed them. bury him with a pig.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 11:55amCanadians will probably exonerate them all. The whole country is a socialist breeding ground of hate and social justice.
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:16pmPlease educate your self about our country before you make yourself a bigger jirk, we have majority conservative gov. that is proposing and will pass much tougher legislation these days. (you are having BTW the same problems with your sanctuary cities, the lax laws regarding ILLEGAL immigration etc.) and most people in Canada are sick of our justice system as well. And tell me what happened so far to the guy that shot people at Ford Hood?. I could go on for days about this but please educate yourself we do not live in Igloos as one off your country men thought we did less than 3 years ago!!
Report Post »Eh2Zed
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 1:56pmAres, in no uncertain terms, GO Fire trUCK YOURSELF! You know ABSOULUTLEY NOTHING about Canada. First off, the Province (Ontario) this crime was committed in is the leftist bastion of Canada. Second, Ontario almost enacted a Sharia court for Muslims, but then 9/11 happened and the truth of Sharia came out to the general public, and the government did an immediate 180 and never enacted said legislation. Third, we have a CONSERVATIVE Federal government, unlike the marxist you idiots elected to feel good about yourselves. Fourth, hows that economy doing under YOUR leftist government, unemployment at 9.1% versus our 7.1% and dropping rate? Fifth, if you had even a vague clue, you would know that the above noted cases tried in the states as honor killings were all found NOT to be honor killings by your imbecilic and uneducated jurors. Sixth, we have convicted 3 murders in Alberta alone, as honor killings. Seventh, the province I live in has elected conservative governments in Alberta for 40 straight years. We have the highest wealth/person ratio in all of North America. Finally number eight, your an imbicile, if you refuse to believe the MSM about their coverage of American Democrats, but you believe them when they say Canada is a Progressive Liberal country. If they lie about one thing, they LIE about ALL things.
Report Post »You sir are a Numpty and a Moron all rolled into one.
walleye01
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 2:25pmARE… wow…as an American I am shocked that you do not see what is happening in our own country…we should not be judging Canada as our own freedoms are truly at stake. They are so right in that we have elected politicians with a left wing agenda and they are succeeding at bringing in socialism…next will be communism / Marxism and the final blow will be the onslaught of radical Islam…we the people must stand and BE THE PEOPLE or there is no doubt we will have no place to stand.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 12:24pmThe Canadiana are not as far left as you described. Sure Canada has things we don’t want in the US like socialised medicene. They don‘t have the death penalty but quite a few US states don’t either. Canadians are a proud people. Remember that during the Iranian hostage crisis, the Canadian embassy provided sanctuary to US citizens. Visit Canada on Rememberance Day. They remember their war dead and it is not just a day off of work to party. When I was in Viet Nam I served with a Canadian who crossed the border to join the Army. He saved my fat a**.
Report Post »ilikai
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 11:55amThis religion doesn’t know the true meaing of “Honor”. Barbaric bastard!!!!!
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 11:55amReally scary so sad & we’re still allowing these savages to live among us .
Report Post »Or you live the western style or stay in your filthy rat holes .
kickagrandma
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 11:54amLovely first wife. Second one? Not so much. Too bad first wife didn’t escape on her own once they got to Canada.
Hell will be filled with muslime men with room left over for leftists infidels who want to destroy our nation.
Report Post »don young
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 11:54amIf this does not show you how wrong there religion is you are very sick god would not want this.
Report Post »Espada
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 11:51amJust another moderate Muslim.
And that is not tongue-in-cheek.
DEPORT ALL OF THEM.
Report Post »junkmaninohio
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 11:48amThe religion of peace.
Report Post »oriondma05
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 11:45amReligion of peace, nothing to see here.
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 11:57amA religion that encourages murder is despicable. Following such a religion’s immoral, brutal tenets is an offense to mankind. Those who commit murder in God’s name should be punished as the common killers that they are.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:10pm7)Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
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Whirled Peas
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 1:03pmReligion of the Pedophile
Report Post »db321
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 1:27pmAnd excepted and welcomed by the Liberal Left.
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