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Today’s Blog Post
The Canadian Welcome Mat for Mohammad Shafia and his Family

Mohammad Shafia and his son along with his second wife are in court now. They have been since October 20, 2011. And I have been following this trial with great interest, along with many other Canadians.

They claim to be innocent of the crimes they are charged with. They claim that they did not murder Shafia’s first wife and his three daughters. The suggestions by the defense lawyer and his team seem to say that it was a “honour killing” – not murder!

I mean come on Canada get a life! There is a difference between Murder and Honour Killing… specially when your daughters have so disgraced you… as in Shafia’s case.

The daughters were getting to be too much of Canada and not enough of what Daddy wanted them to be. And Daddy being a good Afghanistan, male, person has his rights and privileges that his three daughters did not have. And his first wife had no rights either, she couldn’t have any children so she was as good as useless… except maybe to help raise the three daughters. And if she did that she likely knew their dreams and aspirations and maybe about their very non Afghanistan type boyfriends.

The photos I have seen of the man are strange. He looks at the cameras with disgust or contempt. Hands cuffed and glaring with all the Afghanistan pride he can muster.

From Wikipedia, sources state the following… quote..
“The Shafia family, originally from Afghanistan, lived in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for over a decade, where Mohammad Shafia had made a fortune in Dubai real estate. They immigrated into Canada and settled in the Saint-Léonard borough of Montreal.

In 1979 or 1980, Mohammad Shafia married Rona Mohammed, who was infertile and unable to have children. In 1989, he took Tooba Yahya to be his second wife in a polygamous marriage, and she gave birth to seven children, though Rona played a crucial role in their upbringing and raised the children as if they were her own. When the family immigrated to Canada, Rona was presented as an aunt.

According to a family member's interview, Rona was trapped in an abusive, loveless marriage, trying in vain to convince her husband to grant her a divorce. Rona's siblings claimed that she feared for her life during the days leading up to her death. Yahya, the second wife, allegedly said to Rona “You are a slave, you are a servant.” Reportedly, the Shafias held all of Rona’s identity documents, including her passport, so Rona believed she could not flee to another country, where she had relatives.

They also stated that the family's eldest daughter Zainab's relationship with a Pakistani boy was a source of much anger for her father and claimed to have overheard his threats to kill her.

With parents Mohammad Shafia and Tooba Mohammad Yahya, and eldest son Hamed Shafia all in custody during the trial, the remaining Shafia children (two girls and a boy) are being cared for under social services.”
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The dude is rich and can buy his way into Canada, which I am sure that he did. It is easy to get a citizenship and its rights if you can pay the way of other citizens by buying a company, guaranteeing that you will stick to it for 5 to 10 years and hire Canadians.

I am disgusted with the way that our system works. You may be able to tell what I am thinking by what I write. I don’t understand all our system and its every little detail – but if I had money and needed to move my family somewhere that was safer… I would find out the details quickly – just like Shafia did.

This trial is taking a long time. Our system has to be sure that these folks are guilty – and prove that they are guilty of the charges laid.

Can you imagine sitting on that jury?!?

By writing this it doesn’t do much for me or you… except make us aware of what goes on.

I am pretty sure that the two men will be going to Millhaven Prison in a short while. The wife will be heading to Kitchener and the Grand Valley Prison for women.

At Millhaven the men will be processed like the other men are. They will be assessed as to their physical and mental conditions. Then they will have to develop a Correctional Plan that they will have to follow for the next 25 years(that is my guess for their life sentence).

With Mr. Shafia not speaking much English they will either have to use his son as a translator or hire someone that speaks “Dari”.

I can imagine now that the guards at the Prison will be trying to figure out what is happening as well.

There will be no privileges for these men.

Now there is an outside chance that they will simply be moved to the Kingston Penitentiary directly as they may be able to handle the dudes better.

In each place they will be watching these fellows closely so that they will not commit suicide. We want them alive for the next 25 years for sure and will do all that we can to make sure that they are.

I can only imagine that every heritage Afghanistan person that is in Canada wishes that this story would quickly be over. I have a close friend that is from Afghanistan and he is not like Shafia – at all. Yes he is Islamic and yes he practices his faith – but he is not like Shafia.

Now what do you think… Murder? Or honour Killing? Guilty or not so guilty? How about flat out GUILTY?

Now they had seven kids… one son in court with them, three daughters that died in the Rideau Canal, leaving three more kids that are in custody of the a Social Services in Quebec.

I feel so sad with this story. How can anyone be so ignorant and act so foolish? Pride and arrogance are very likely the best answers!

Welcome to Canada!

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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Resource:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafia_family_deaths

http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/facilit/institutprofiles/millhaven-eng.shtml