A good result in the Shafia case - the murdering trio got life for their shameful crimes – killing four women from their own family for “honor.” The Muslim family had left Afghanistan in 1992, living in Pakistan, Australia and Dubai before settling in Quebec in 2007. By that time Shafia, a wealthy businessman, had married Tooba Yahya because his first wife, Rona Amir, could not have children. Not divorced, his first wife travelled with the family and was still living with him and his second wife at the time of her murder. As an aside, had the polygamous relationship been revealed, and if they lived in another province other than Quebec, they would have been deported. To avoid suspicion and confirm the pecking order, Tooba always referred to Rona as her “servant.”
A few years in Quebec and the daughters had gotten a taste of the West; according to reports, they had begun “skipping school, failing classes, being sent home for wearing revealing clothes, stealing, dating non-Muslim boys - condoms were found in the girls’ rooms.” Not exactly serious stuff, but apparently grounds for murder if you lived in a household controlled by a domineering nutcase for a father. It often fell to the son and second-in-command, Hamed, to keep his sisters in line and dole out punishment when his father was away on business trips to Dubai. After the murders, the court heard wiretaps which captured Shafia spewing hateful insults about his dead daughters and wife, calling them treacherous whores and invoking the devil to s..t on their graves.
Not surprisingly, it took the jury just 15 hours to find Mohammad Shafia, 58; his wife Tooba Yahya, 42; and their son Hamed, 21, guilty of four counts of first-degree murder. In Canada first-degree murder is still a crime and carries an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years. If they had committed the same crime in a Muslim country, they probably would not have been charged not alone found guilty in a court of law.
This weekend, Sat morning, another brave young Canadian soldier was killed in Afghanistan. Dead is MCpl Byron Greff, a proud member of the PPCLI based out of Edmonton, and serving with 3rd Battalion. He was on TD in Afghanistan as a trainer and mentor. MCpl Greff was among 17 victims of a suicide attack in Kabul – 8 NATO soldiers, 5 civilian contractors, 4 Afghan civilians including 2 children were lost in the cowardly taliban attack. Makes you wonder what we are still doing in that armpit of a country. Our sincere condolences go out to MCpl Greff’s family and friends during this difficult time. As November 11 approaches, let us remember the 158 brave personnel we lost in that failed mission. We should also remember Omar Khadr (see below), the convicted terrorist and murderer, as he prepares to gain access to Canada inorder to sue the Canadian taxpayer for millions.
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