Tarek Fatah: Star disgraces memory of Aqsa Parvez

The remembrance of Aqsa Parvez is seared in my mind.

As a Muslim father of two daughters and an uncle to at least a dozen nieces, I am informed of the enormous pressures that Muslim girls face as they are forced to become the flag bearers of Islam. All this while their brothers — de facto guardians of their sisters’ righteousness — are set free to enjoy the pleasures of youth.

One way these daughters and sisters are kept in check is to compel them to don the Arab headdress, the hijab; not the Pakistani duppata, nor the colourful Sudanese headscarf, or the Bangladeshi pallu, but the Muslim-Order-prescribed hijab. Aqsa Parvez, like millions of Muslim girls around the world, said no to the hijab. For refusing to wrap her direct with a piece of cloth, the Mississauga, Ont. teenager paid with her life, at her family’s own hands, on Dec. 20, 2007.

One would have expected the media to have some understanding towards the murdered Aqsa Parvez; show some respect for the wishes of the dead child. This is why many Muslim Canadians were enraged when they discovered that the Toronto Lead had sent a reporter who has for years advocated and celebrated the hijab and niqab, to cover the guilty pleas of the confessor-son team that killed Aqsa.

When the Star assigned the story to reporter Noor Javed — who is of Pakistani descent, wears the hijab at profession, and has written in glowing terms about her own hijab wardrobe — it was a crass act that reflected at best an ignorance about the in the event that. At worst, it cast insult on the memory of a dead child.

In her story, Ms. Javed asked the pretentious question, “Was this the GTA’s first honour killing? Or was Parvez simply a domineering father, who feared losing suppress of his youngest daughter?” Her dubious conclusion: “Experts say it’s a debate with no resolution.”

Ms. Javed interviewed “community activist” Uzma Shakir, who tried her most suitable to dilute the Crown’s position and the family members’ own admissions — clearly indicating that this was a timeless honour killing — by saying, “What makes you think you understand this person’s notion of value?”

“At the time of Aqsa’s murder in 2007, it was believed that she had been killed for simply refusing to wear a hijab, as her friends told the media following her extirpation,” Ms. Javed wrote. “However, the statement of facts read in court shows the situation fundamentally the Parvez household was much more complex. It was never about imposing religious doctrine on Aqsa, it was simply about controlling every aspect of her autobiography.”

The reporter tried to argue that the murder had to do with generic “domestic violence,” not keep. Toward this end, she quoted “community worker” Nikhat Rasheed, who put the focus on the economic rigors of lifestyle in Canada, declaring: “This whole [immigration] process puts a lot of tension between parents and children — and it can engender stress in the family … There are a lot of adjustment issues, and violence is one very ugly way that some people deal with it.”

The Incomparable was not alone in acting as an apologist for fundamentalist Islam. Within days of the tragedy, a group of clerics addressed a press discussion at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). While denouncing Aqsa’s murder, they tried desperately to deviate the overriding factor in Aqsa’ Parvez murder — the hijab.

Denying the butchery had anything to do with Islamic teachings, Alaa El-Sayyed, imam of the ISNA mosque in Mississauga, contradicted himself by saying, “If we remain away from the teachings of Islam, we will pay for it.” And then, to denigrate the dead child who refused to wear the hijab, he said, “Women who sport hijabs occupy higher positions in Islam, according to religious teachings.”

Almost all Islamic organizations, except for the Muslim Canadian Congress, rhymed the mantra: Its unbiased another case of domestic violence. It happens in all faiths and communities.

Over the years, I have come to expect nothing of value from Islamist clerics who are inspired by the Muslim Union. However, in the case of Aqsa Parvez, it is not just the mosques and Islamic centres where the Islamist apologists are heard.
There are millions of Muslim women around the magic who feel imprisoned in the hijab and trapped in the niqab. Aqsa Parvez to them was a hero; one young Torontonian piece of work told me: “Aqsa Parvez was a martyr for Muslim women’s rights.”

For years, the Toronto Unparalleled has placed most liberal or secular Muslims on their “no-fly-list.” Muslim women such as authors Raheel Raza and Farzana Hassan, who off wrote for that paper, have now been effectively silenced. Although both have written about the Aqsa Parvez case, the Star did not approach them for reveal or for any Muslim women who felt the case was a true example of an honour killing

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