Under what set of circumstances did this even remotely become a question in Canada?
There are actually “Canadians” who believe that our Canadian values and culture should be overturned in favor of another’s values and culture, in the name of
Trudeau’s liberals’ Canada’s famous “multicultural mosaic” cult religion policy
idiocy?
[The murderer’s defence lawyer] Bosada said the high court should take on the case to provide guidance to lower courts “in this multi-cultural Canadian society.”
Personally, my strategy would be to laugh my head off at the very notion of overturning the lower court’s ruling, and to tell my client to stuff it. And as we can see, the Supreme Court did roughly that, as it should have.
Top court refuses to hear whether religion can be a murder defence
OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada declined an invitation on Thursday to consider whether Muslim cultural and religious beliefs in ‘‘family honour’’ should be taken into account as justification for receiving a lighter sentence for killing an unfaithful wife.
The court refused to hear the appeal of Adi Abdul Humaid, a devout Muslim from the United Arab Emirates, who admitted to stabbing Aysar Abbas to death with a steak knife on a visit to Ottawa in 1999.
In an application filed in the Supreme Court, Humaid’s lawyer, Richard Bosada, argued Humaid was provoked by his wife’s claim she cheated on him, an insult so severe in the Muslim faith it deprived him of self-control.
The concept of “family honour” in the Muslim culture means a man is disgraced if his wife has an affair, said the application.
Humaid was convicted of first-degree murder and lost his appeal at the Ontario Court of Appeal, which concluded his defence lacked an “air of reality.”
“Lacked an air of reality”, huh? You don’t say.
His client stabbed his wife 23 times in order (we’re told) to exercise his “multicultural” “rights”. Maybe the problem was that he didn’t do it right, to wit:
An American scholar, Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub, testified at Humaid’s trial that many Islamic societies permit men to punish wives suspected of adultery and sometimes even kill them. Under Islamic law, punishment for adultery is usually flogging or stoning, Ayoub said. In some Muslim cultures and rural areas, unfaithful women can be killed.
There are apparently “Canadians” who believe this is A-OK, not just in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere, but here too. They believe that we’re the ones who are wrong.
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