A YOUNG Muslim man, motivated by a “perverted notion of honour”, has been jailed for in Canada for the murder of his 20-year-old sister and her fiancé, 23, in the early hours of September 19, 2006 while the couple sat in a parked car.
Slain couple: Feroz Mangal and Khatera Sadiqi
Ontario Superior Court Justice Douglas Rutherford told an expressionless Hasibullah Sadiqi, 23:
You put your own self-esteem over those of your own sister and the young man she had chosen to become her life partner. And consigning them to partnership in death has shocked and bewildered every community in the nation’s capital. The forfeiture of your liberty for the rest of your life seems only just.
Minutes earlier, the jury returned a verdict of guilty on two counts of first-degree murder against the 23-year-old Sadiqi, who gunned down his sister, Khatera, and Feroz Mangal.
Prosecutor Mark Moors said Sadiqi was motivated:
By a perverted notion of honour and respect for the sole purpose of restoring the family’s reputation and respect in the Afghan community.
According to this report, Moors told the court that Sadiqi murdered the couple because Khatera moved in with Mangal’s family before the wedding, and because she refused to have her estranged father, who routinely abused her, involved in her wedding plans.
The jury, which reached its verdict in two days, rejected Sadiqi’s claim that he had been provoked and gunned down the couple while he was out of control.
Hasibullah Sadiqi
Rutherford allowed the reading of two eloquent, emotionally charged victim- impact statements, one from Khatera’s mother and stepfather, the other from the Mangal family.
In the Mangal family statement, Feroz’s brother, Hameed, spoke of their shattered dreams:
My parents left a war-torn country, Afghanistan, to escape persecution and killings. We took refuge in a wonderful land, Canada, to seek opportunities, get education and achieve our goals. We saw Canada as a land where we could feel safe and secure all our dreams, our hopes and our goals in life have been shattered.
University of Toronto professor Shahrzad Mojab told the trial that honour killings involve a “cleansing” to restore a family’s respect after the “misbehaviour” of female relatives had brought “dishonour” upon them.
Methods to clear a family’s honour range from displacing a family member to “the act of purifying through blood”, she added.
In many cases, a father or brother will claim the killing happened out of passion or love for the woman, but it’s argued that the woman had to be sacrificed for the larger love of the family and restoring respect, Mojab said.
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June 9th, 2009 at 9:53 am
This is the kind of thinking that should have long dissapeared from civilised society, 'honour' killings and religious motivated violence against women should have gone with the dark ages and yet, here it is. It makes me so angry.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Can't we just hang these cowardly bastards for dishonouring the human race?
June 9th, 2009 at 10:44 am
sickening – to have no concept of the value of human life and to see female family members as objects. How about jailing the fucking father who abused her now. These brainwashed freaks are almost sub-human. Worse than animals – as they only kill for food. I'm having difficulty controlling my profanity filter here.
What an utter piece of shit – I hope he gets properly treated in prison by the other inmates – as i hope he suffers – I really do.
June 9th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Whilst religion is allowed to have power and influence , this sort of obscene behaviour will continue.
June 9th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Religion is considered by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
Unfortunately we have let religion get really out of control, it is time we take a step back and try to contain it back to a normal level in society.
June 9th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
At least in western countries the matter is usually properly dealt with unlike the Islamic world where the authorities tend to look the other way.
June 9th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
'… I hope he gets properly treated in prison by the other inmates…'.
If the Canadian prison system is anything like the British system, and I believe it may well be, he will be quartered with mainly muslim prisoners. They will respect him for his crime, probably even consider him a hero of Islam. All his religious needs will be catered for and the prison staff will have to show him the utmost respect or he will sue them for religious discrimination.
All he will lose is freedom, but as a muslim he has already submitted that freedom to an imaginary higher authority anyway.
June 9th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Oh aye – Forgot about that. Mustn't upset the criminals – Surely though according to Islam – if you are a murderer that is unislamic – and therefore not a proper muslim…. Aye – clutching at straws. These shits shouldn't be pandered to FFS – never mind giving them halal food – that is another atrocity on the planet.
We do have an uphill struggle don't we for reality……
June 9th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
The religion of peace and love strikes again!
June 9th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Where does the "honour" come into it?
June 10th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
What makes my mind boggle, is HOW do they learn that this is bringing 'dishonour' on their families? If my sister shacked up with someone before getting married (actually, she did, three times) the thought of killing here wouldn't really cross my mind. They must have it drilled into them by the mad mullahs at the mosque. I mean, how deep must this be ingained in their psyche?
June 10th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
There is no honour in these people.Can you imagine what a fantastic world we would have if it was not for all the Christians and Muslims. They are always the ones that cause the world grief and trouble. They are always the ones that cause suffering and injustice. They are always the ones that try to imposed their will on free thinking people. More people have died in the name of Jesus Christ than all the rest put together yet they still carp on about a loving and just god. It is all bullshit and in my opinion the world should rid itself of these mentally ill people. Be honest. If you truly believe, as an intelligent human being, the utter shit that is written in the bible and the koran then you must have some kind of problem mentally.
June 11th, 2009 at 9:41 am
This is why religion, and Islam in particular, is evil. Any religion which claims familial honor (whatever that means) to be more important than life has got to be evil. The world would be a better place if we made belief in religion to be a crime. We could start by jailing all the Islamic clerics for insighting hatred, together with all the perverted catholic priests for child sex abuse.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:02 am
It seems that murder brings less dishonour to a family than a girl moving in with her future parents-in-law. And an abusing father is o,k. then.
June 13th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Note that it is the woman or girl who takes the hit. This bullshit is an ingrained satisfaction with controlling women in the name of their fuckwit religion. A woman raped in some Muslim countries is flogged for being seductive; or stoned to death with small stones – large stones kill too quickly – while the man is excused. I hope some of the prisoners decide to "reason" with this murderous clown or even make him an offer he cannot refuse. Sick doesn't begin to describle what happened here.
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:25 am
where can we find the honor in killing these people in love? God is Love and He gave us, human beings, the free will to choose the way we live life & the people we love and nobody else in this world has the authority to dictate except the persons in love! this mentality is so primitive, it makes me want to vomit in that killer's face! if this muslim practice of arranged marriages & the treatment of women as if they were commodities were to be stopped then we would have less murders & suicides of women like this committed in the name of religious beliefs! to hell with these narrow minded pieces of shit!
August 17th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
LIFE WITHOUT RELIGION:
FORNICATION
SEXUAL DISEASES(STDs,Chlymdia etc)
UNDERAGE PREGNANCY
GAMBLING
PROSTITUTION
EXTORTION
MURDER
WARS ESPECIALLY FOR OIL AND EMPIRES
NEED I GO ON!
WE WON’T LAST A MONTH WITHOUT RELIGION YOU FUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!