Canadian MP Justin Trudeau says, Don't call honor killings "barbaric"

Islamic Sharia Law has already crept into a few of our American courts and several state legislatures have introduced or passed laws to ban judges from applying it toward Muslims who have become entangled with the conflicting rules of our society. American liberals, driven by political correctness, appease the poor conduct of the misunderstanders of Islam to the extent that no matter how terroristic their acts are they are never identified by their religion to hide the fact they were driven by religious goals. Now a Liberal member of the Canadian Parliament has jumped to the defense of Muslims in Canada by condemning the Canadian government for referring to Islamic "Honor Killings" as being "barbaric". The following story was uncovered by Atlas Shrugs.

Thursday, March 17, 2011
Toronto Sun
News Canada
Honour killings term angers Trudeau

By BRYN WEESE, Parliamentary Bureau

OTTAWA - Liberal MP Justin Trudeau said the government should not call honour killings "barbaric" in a study guide for would-be Canadian citizens.

On Monday, the federal government updated its Discover Canada guide, a pamphlet given to new immigrants to help explain life in Canada and prepare them for the citizenship test.

Among other things, it tells new Canadians that gay marriage is OK and forced marriages are not.

But the guide also says: "Canada's openness and generosity do not extend to barbaric cultural practices that tolerate spousal abuse, 'honour killings,' female genital mutilation, forced marriage or other gender-based violence."

"Those guilty of these crimes are severely punished under Canada's criminal laws," it reads.

Trudeau blasted the Conservatives for using the term "barbaric," even though it's been in the guide since 2009. Forced marriages are the only new item on the list.

"There's nothing that the word 'barbaric' achieves that the words 'absolutely unacceptable' would not have achieved," Trudeau, the Liberal immigration critic, said.

"We accept that these acts are absolutely unacceptable. That's not the debate. In casual conversation, I'd even use the word barbaric to describe female circumcision, for example, but in an official Government of Canada publication, there needs to be a little bit of an attempt at responsible neutrality."

But Immigration Minister Jason Kenney fired back Monday, accusing the Liberals of choosing political correctness over women's rights.

"Despite Trudeau's opposition, we make no apologies for letting immigrant women know their rights. We won't turn a blind eye to the abuse of immigrant women, even if the Ignatieff Liberals prefer we err on the side of political correctness," said Alykhan Velshi, a spokesman for Kenney.

Newcomers are also being warned in the updated guide to leave their "violent, extreme or hateful prejudices" at the door, even if they're coming from a war-torn country or conflict zone.

"Such experiences do not justify bringing to Canada violent, extreme or hateful prejudices. In becoming Canadian, newcomers are expected to embrace democratic principles such as the rule of law," the brochure now reads.

Announcing the changes in Vancouver Monday, Kenney said it's important to make sure newcomers to Canada understand the laws and values of the land.

"We expect people who want to become Canadians to have a good understanding of their rights and responsibilities, and the values and institutions that are rooted in Canada's history," he said. "This study guide has strengthened the value of Canadian citizenship."

Opposition parties lauded the government for including gay marriage in the document. Critics blasted feds last year for omitting gay rights from the first version of the guide, which was introduced in 2009.

bryn.weese@sunmedia.ca

Pamela Geller, at Atlas Shrugs was the first to reveal the dirty secrets of  this story a few years ago. Muslim families living in the Western Hemisphere were still following the ancient practices of Islam that permitted fathers and mothers and brothers to murder female children who caused "embarrassment" to the family for almost any reason. Reasons as obscure as using a cell phone, not wearing a burqa in public or dating a boy. It seems in the Muslim culture a family can cleanse itself from the embarrassment caused by a child or wife by killing them to restore the family honor. There have already been several publicized accounts of "honor killings" in America but Pamela Geller actually undertook a public campaign to against them.

Read the complete chilling account here in this article from her web site.

Honor Killing: Islam's Gruesome Gallery
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Another young woman  tortured and murdered  to add to the gruesome gallery..... The horror of these young girls terror stricken victims, who live in homemade concentration camps is given the imprimatur of the West in its complicit silence -  the urbane  face of bloodthirsty savagery. The West looks away and more girls lead desperate, brutal lives. The "Feminists" look away and pretend it is outside the realm of women's rights-  leftists tools of Islamic jihad..  These useful idiots  are on someone's payroll or they fear Islam. Either way, get out of the way.  Shame on all of you for failing our women, our children, our girls, our very way of life. How dare they throw our superior culture with both hands.