Mohammad Shafia: Honour Killing

Tooba Mohammad Yaha Dept: I have met quite a few simply because I work as a volunteer in one of Winnipeg's largest affordable-housing societies. The women were all different, but none of them had the characteristics of the Muslim-woman stereotype -- a supine creature who is browbeaten or sometimes beaten by her husband, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Muslim women are in the news because of the trial of Mohammad Shafia, his second wife, Tooba Mohammad Yaha, and his son Hamed, who are accused of killing Shafia's first wife and three daughters in what the Crown says was an "honour killing." A lot of discussion these days about Muslim women, but the problem is few of us get a chance to sit down and talk with some of them. In fact, it was sometimes the reverse -- the women told their husbands where to get off. In other instances, the women did all the talking and the men said nary a word. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.