Yasin Wafa, 17 months, is the son of the dead woman and her husband, who is charged in her fatal stabbing. Every night, little Yasin Wafa scurries over to his grandparents’ front door, hoping his mom will be picking him up as she used toHonor violence, honor murder is not just an Islamic tradition, it's Islamic law.
A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that "retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right." However, "not subject to retaliation" is "a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring." ('Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2). In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law.
As Robert Spencer notes: "Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that 'retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.' However, 'not subject to retaliation' is 'a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring.' ('Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2). In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law. The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour 'provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.' And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that 'Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.'"
Toddler cries for slain mother stabbed to death in Ajax home The Star, July 26, 2013 (thanks to Devorah)
Nasira Fazli, whose body was found riddled with stab wounds, left behind a toddler. Her husband faces second-degree murder charges.
Every night, little Yasin Wafa scurries over to his grandparents’ front door, hoping his mom will be picking him up as she used to. For the past week, she hasn’t come. Nasira Fazli, 31, was brutally stabbed dead last Friday in her Ajax home.
Her husband, Feraidon Mohammad Imbrahem, 31, is charged with second-degree murder. He was arrested without incident Friday at their home and was remanded into custody Saturday. He will return to court Aug. 6.
Yasin, 17 months old, had just started calling Nasira Fazli “ma-ma” days before she was murdered, his grandmother says, adding he now cries for “ma-ma” when being put to bed.
“Everybody is crying, crying,” says Shahla Fazli, surrounded by pictures of her dead daughter at her Pickering home. Yasin is nearby, in his aunt Sharipa Fazli’s arms, snuggling his face into her shoulder.
Shahla Fazli spreads some pictures out on the floor. In some, Nasira Fazli is smiling next to her husband, but his eyes in the images have been scratched and poked out by her brothers.
The Fazli family says they had some concerns about Nasira Fazli’s safety, but troubling issues were always dealt with internally, without involving police and potentially destroying the relationship.
Nasira Fazli was the rock of her family. She bought a house for her parents and siblings, with whom she lived. A Canadian citizen who emigrated from Afghanistan 24 years ago, she wed Imbrahem nearly three years ago in her home country.
It was an arranged match, but she knew him well, as did her mother. She returned to Canada pregnant, gave birth to Yasin, their only child, and sponsored Imbrahem to join her about four months ago.
Nasira Fazli worked in customer service at American Express and dreamed of starting a happy family, but cracks emerged in the marriage when she and Imbrahem got their own place, the Fazli family says.
“He was so demanding,” says Sharipa Fazli, lowering her voice to a whisper as she expresses the fears her family had. “He was stubborn. It was his way or the highway.”
About a month ago, Sharipa Fazli alleges, Imbrahem threatened her sister after an argument over caring for Yasin.
“He wasn’t adjusting well to life here,” she says. “Back home, he was a doctor, and here he was nothing.”
Sharipa Fazli says her mother met with Nasira Fazli and Imbrahem after the alleged threat and they chose not to contact police. Imbrahem had apologized, showing his arm tattoo of Nasira’s name and promising he’d never hurt her.
Nasira Fazli did not want to risk ruining her husband’s chances of permanent residency, the Fazli family says. He was given another chance.
Sharipa Fazli, shaking her head, says her sister suffered so many stab wounds that from her waist up, “there was no body.”
Det.-Sgt. J.J. Allan, of the Durham Region police homicide unit, says Nasira Fazli suffered “several” stab wounds and police are “investigating the relationship between the victim and the accused, and other allegations.”
The Fazli family says there were also concerns for little Yasin; Nasira Fazli had begun going out of her way to not leave her son alone with Imbrahem. But again, the family only dealt with it internally.
“She didn’t want to ruin his reputation,” says Sharipa Fazli, letting Yasin climb out of her arms and onto the floor. “He was well respected back home.”
Yasin wanders around and settles by a set of stairs, putting his hand against a wall and turning his toward it.
“He has no parents,” says Sharipa Fazli, looking at him lovingly. “He’s been having a hard time adjusting.”
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