Aqsa
Parvez is dead—
“If
we stay away from the teaching of Islam, we pay for it.”
Aqsa Parvez
Sixteen-year-old Aqsa Parvez is dead. Her father, Mohammed Parvez, strangled her because she wouldn’t wear the hijab. The slaying had nothing to do with Islam. It was un-Islamic. Sure—like the killings in Darfur and Beslan. Police said Aqsa died of an ‘neck compression.’ That’s like dying of ‘lead poisoning’ in Deadwood or Tombstone or Lincoln County. Billy Bonney could have said, “I didn’t know the gun was loaded.” With a good lawyer he could have had a case. “I didn’t know my hands were around her neck,” is more difficult. They should have said she died ‘of Islam.’
The Islamic Society of North America Canada held a news conference at their headquarters in Mississauga to come to grips with the tragedy. There were extenuating circumstances they said. “This girl she refused to stay at home,” said Imam Mohammed Alnadvi. “There were feelings that she is going in the wrong direction…going with some other boy or some other thing.” Sure, like Jamie Lynn Spears, Britney’s sister.
Sheikh Alaa Elsayed, who organized the conference, said, “We cannot let culture supercede religion. If we stay away from the teaching of Islam, we pay for it.”
Friends of the family said they had argued over Aqsa’s refusal to wear the hijab. She was too socially progressive for her cultural warrior father. “So if the daughter makes the decision,” explained Alnadvi, “then they have failed.” But a ‘neck compression—couldn’t Pops have locked her in her room for a couple of days till things settled down? It has worked before.
There was the time Alfalfa refused to wear a tutu to a dance recital. It almost drove dear old Mom mad, but she didn’t strangle him. She sent him to bed without desert—for forty-six straight days! One of them learned a lesson. George S. Patton had a problem in North Africa in 1943 with GIs who for one reason of another traipsed around without helmets on their heads. He issued an order requiring all personnel to wear steel helmets at all times, including physicians in the operating wards. No one was shot so it must have worked. The Lone Ranger and the Green Hornet swapped masks one day to play a little joke on Tonto and Cato but Tonto was so nearsighted he followed the Green Hornet around for three weeks before he realized they were playing a joke on him. He was outraged but did he strangle the Lone Ranger? Of course not, the next time they stopped in San Francisco he sewed lace on the Masked Man’s saddlebags. So there are options besides murder.
Nonetheless Elsayed insisted on belaboring his point. “No religion condones such an act,” he said. “It is forbidden to hit anyone.” Anyone?
Tabari IX:113 “Allah permits you to shut them up in separate rooms and to beat them, but not severely.”
Okay, no hitting—except for women.
The taking of a human life is an act against all humanity said Elsayed.
Tabari !X:69 “Killing disbelievers is a small matter to us.”
Tabari VII:97 “The morning after the murder of Ashraft,
the Prophet declared, ‘Kill any Jew who falls under your power.’”
Tabari VIII:179 “Among those Muhammad ordered killed was
Abdallah bin Khatal. The Messenger ordered him to be slain because while he was
a Muslim, Muhammad had sent him to collect the zakat tax with an Ansar and a
slave of his…His girls used to sing a satire about Muhammad so the Prophet
ordered that they should be killed along with Abdallah. He was killed by Sa’id
and Abu Barzah. The two shared in his blood. One of the singing girls was
killed quickly but the other fled. So Umar caused his horse to trample the one
who fled, killing her.”
Okay, no taking of human life—except for disbelievers, Jews, former Muslims and singing girls.
Qur’an 8:67 “It is not fitting for any Prophet to have prisoners until he has made a great slaughter in the land.”
Qur’an 33:60 “Whenever they (Hypocrites) are
found, they shall be seized and slain without mercy—a fierce slaughter—murder,
a horrible murdering.”
Ishaq 676 “(The Prophet said) will no one rid me of this woman? That very night he (Umayr) crept into the writer’s home while she lay sleeping with her young children. There was one at her breast. Umayr removed the suckling babe and then plunged his sword into the poet…Killing her was as meaningless as two goats butting heads (said the Prophet).”
Okay, no taking of human life—except for disbelievers, Jews, former Muslims, singing girls, designated civilians, hypocrites and poets. This is a long list, yet the killing of Aqsa Parvez was—they say—un-Islamic. It was random violence, domestic abuse, it happens all the time. It had more to do with family than with religion or culture. Alfalfa was lucky his mother didn’t strangle him and the Lone Ranger could thank his lucky stars Tonto enjoyed practical jokes more than retributive justice.
Still Elsayed said, “We cannot let culture supercede religion.” And that was precisely why Mohammed Parvez murdered Aqsa. Culture was creeping into his religion—an alien culture—and it could not be tolerated. Local Imams had plenty of after-the-fact advice on child rearing. The key to getting girls to wear the hijab was to teach them religion at an early age—and, of course, having selected ‘a proper spouse.’
Aqsa’s mother is reportedly sick with grief. No doubt, her daughter is dead and the Imams are saying she is ‘an improper spouse.’ Tabari IX:113 must be flashing on and off inside her head like a fire alarm.
They say Aqsa’s father was a crazy man, a lunatic. That may be, but he could not have committed his horrible crime without the help and the urgings of Tabari, Ishaq and the Qur’an—and Islam.
From the “Don’t Know When to Keep Their Mouths Shut” files comes this totally unrelated incident:
Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hassani, representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini, in eastern Azerbaijain, addressed the press—AND Kronus International—in the city of Urumieh. “I do not understand how these women who do not respect the hijab, 28 years after the birth of the Islamic Republic, are still alive,” he said. “These women and their husbands and their fathers must die.”