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Peer Khairi: Ontario Superior Court

Giti Khairi Dept: My parents never force me to wear a hijab, but after when I got married . . . I started praying and I think that God work in my heart, Giti Khairi testified at her father s murder trial, according to The Star. Peer Khairi, her 65-year-old father, has pleaded not guilty in Ontario Superior Court in the gruesome stabbing and near-decapitation of his wife of 30 years, Randjida Khairi, 53 and the daughter of an Afghan immigrant accused of murdering his wife because he believed her too culturally permissive broke down crying Thursday when speaking about her new-found Muslim faith. Then the diminutive 29-year-old beauty shop worker who wears a hijab put her hands over her face and started sobbing when Crown prosecutor Amanda Camara asked if she ever spoke to her father about religion. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.