Four Dead In Suspected Honor Killing

From Canada - a horrible crime (story link here). Three teenage girls and their mother. Allegedly, a man took two wives while living in Afghanistan but could only claim one as he's now living in Canada. Reportedly, he has seven children with his other wife. The woman reported receiving death threats and fearing for her life in emails to relatives. The car was found submerged with the women inside. Individuals who knew them and some family members are insisting it was an honor killing.

Police sources confirmed the dramatic development in the case Wednesday, 22 days after a black Nissan Sentra was found in roughly three metres of water near one of the four locks.

Three teenage sisters were found dead in the car, Zainab Shafi, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, along with a 50-year-old woman, Rona Amir Mohammed.

La Presse newspaper in Montreal said three people who were heading to Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport were arrested yesterday morning.

Initially, police said the case was suspicious but that they had not found evidence of foul play.

It's not clear what charges are being laid, but The Whig-Standard learned that Kingston Police have been investigating, for at least two weeks, the allegation that the deaths were an honour killing.

"We are convinced that this is a crime of honour," Diba Masoomi told Kingston Police, in an email sent to the police chief's office roughly two weeks ago.

The newspaper obtained a copy of the email from Masoomi, who lives in Niort, France. She claims she is the sister of Rona Amir Mohammed and she also offered the stunning allegation that the dead woman was the first wife of Mohammed Shafi, the father of the three dead girls.

She provided photos that she claims show Shafi and Mohammed at their wedding in Afghanistan 30 years ago. The couple never divorced.

Masoomi said the marriage has been hidden since the family moved to Canada two years ago.

In interviews after the deaths, Shafi and the woman he presented as his only wife, Tooba Mohammed Yhaya, said Rona Mohammed was a cousin.

Ali Shafi, a 15-year-old brother of the dead girls, told the Whig-Standard in an interview July 8 that Rona Mohammed was his aunt.

"For some time, my sister, as well as the Shafi couple's oldest daughter, Zainab, had been receiving death threats for social, cultural and family reasons," Masoomi's email to Kingston Police states.

In an interview through translation, Masoomi, who does not speak English or French, explained that Rona Mohammed has stayed in regular contact with relatives in Europe, and has told them she feared for her life.

"She was really afraid," Masoomi told the Whig-Standard, through her daughter Elaha Masoomi. "There were death threats."

Diba Masoomi said that Rona Mohammed married Shafi in Kabul, Afghanistan. When she could not have children, he took a second wife, a practice that is not uncommon in Afghani culture.

Shafi and his second wife had seven children.

Comments

[Alex]

I should hesitate to comment on this story, lest I be drug in front of Canada's Human Rights Tribunal and Kangaroo Court (Now With More Fascism!), but this crap cannot in any way, shape, or form be tolerated in a modern, Western Society. This scum should be tried to the full extent of Canadian law. Which means he probably get probation and an apology from the government for persecuting his faith.

[Bert]

"Individuals who knew them and some family members are insisting it was an honor killing."
Like, who gives a flying f*** it is was an honor killing, as if that makes this easier to accept, or makes this understandable ?. Are we supposed to think, "Oh, this was an honour killing ?. Well then, THAT makes it OK". I'd stand in line to beat the living shit out of this a$$hole.

[j girl]

honor in killing your own children??? This world is becoming a very sad place...

[S Price]

"Honor Killing" What other religions not only allow but dictate that females be exterminated on a man's whim? From reading about honor killings, women don't even have to be guilty of the accusation--just suspected.

I find it totally incomprehensible that women of any faith should be accused of arousing a Muslim man's carnal desires. What a crock of dog doodoo. Have they no sense of personal responsibility?

The Burka is a Muslim male fashion statement!

[Ned]

Alex said it right, the most the murderer will get is Probation and an Apology from our Government.
Why would anyone commit a murder somewhere else ! Canada is the perfect place.
We don’t want to offend anybody. Any ethnic person can do anything they like in Canada, because of their ‘’Culture’’
It’s sad but true. May God be with the deceased women.