Obviously we can't control what happens around the world, but here in Canada we have laws and if you break them you have to pay the penalty whether you are Muslim, Christian, Catholic, white, black, yellow, brown. I just don't like the fact that there seems to be a rather biased focus on non white, non western religion crime occurrences.
There isn't. Canada is and has been moving ahead on women's rights for many years. I see articles, notifications, newscasts many times a day regarding women's shelters, women's groups, and reports of what's being done for women in general.
The problem is, as soon as you mention the aspect of honour killings in relation to women's rights, everyone clams up and immediately starts pointing in other directions to distract from the conversation. No one wants to have that conversation. And I get it - we are not exactly prepared to deal with this new aspect as it moves into all countries of the world. Aqsa Parvez asked for help. But we are inexperienced with this level of religious fanaticism, so we sent her back home to "obey" her father, like a good 16 year old girl, never imagining that her family was in far more fear of losing their family honour than they were of the legal consequences for strangling her in her bedroom. Do you imagine the problem is going to get better as more and more religious fanatics settle in Canada? The UK is already dealing with the highest rate of acid attacks per capita in the world.
The UK has one of the highest rates of acid attacks per capita in the world, according to Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTI).
ASTI's figures, quoting the police, reveal the number of recorded attacks has increased nearly three-fold from 228 recorded crimes in 2012 to 601 attacks in 2016. Last year was widely regarded as the worst ever with more than 400 incidents reported in the six months to April 2017 alone.
There have been some acid attacks in Canada. I expect we'll start seeing more.
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