Domestic Violence

Dept: It is unfortunate however, that the platitudinous recriminations proffered in s back to back editorial columns, as well as elsewhere in your paper, do little to assuage the trauma of shocked Canadian sensibilities. They in fact, serve to mislead members of our society into believing that this brand of imported domestic violence is a periodic aberration that can be adequately dealt with by Canada s courts of law, according to The Star. While your paper concerns itself with highlighting the depravity of the Shafia trio s role in perpetrating this wretched act, you appear somewhat content to merely question, as opposed to asserting, whether this might not be the result of misplaced respect for cultural differences . Indeed, I posit that the gravitas associated with crimes of this nature can be directly attributed to the lack of media leadership which has failed to initiate pertinent debate in this regard, and to a government too ready to trade the Canadian birthright for a mess of multicultural pottage and rosie DiManno is to be complimented for her dogged determination to provide compelling coverage of this domestic abuse case committed in the name of preserving family honour. The media tut-tutting and our government s lack of moral leadership have played their roles in helping foment the occurrence of such bizarre crimes in our backyard, crimes that once used to be the preserve of foreign news reporting. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.