by Eric Dondero

About time! Perhaps the election of John Harper and his Conservative Party is starting to have an affect. The Canadians are joining the worldwide fight against Islamo-Fascism.

Father and son were convicted last week and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of their daughter/sister Aqsa Parvez. What warranted the brutal strangling in the basement of Miss Parvez? She didn't want to wear a hijab, she wanted to get a part-time job in town, and hang out at the mall. In other words, she wanted to live a Western lifestyle.

Amazingly, many in the Canadian media are saying the sentence wasn't harsh enough. From the Globe and Mail editorials, June 17:

Canadian justice needs to be unyielding with those who kill women and children for what they deem to be culturally appropriate reasons. There is reason to question whether it gave too much ground, in the murder of 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez of Mississauga, Ont., by her father, Muhammad Parvez, and her brother, Waqas.

Crown prosecutors called it an honour killing, a murder to erase the shame of the men in an immigrant, traditionalist family from Pakistan in which a daughter sought Western-style freedoms, such as a part-time job. If that was so, the Crown should have sought the strongest possible sentence, that of first-degree murder, based on evidence of planning and deliberateness. The brother, for instance, had asked a friend days earlier if he could get him a gun to kill his sister.

Libertarians and cultural liberals need to face up to the harsh reality of Radical Islam. Explains Canadian columnist Margaret Wente in the Globe and Mail (via Memeo):

Aqsa’s entire family was dedicated to resisting Western values, not adopting them. They were determined to cling to the ways of rural Pakistan. They believed that their community in Mississauga would understand what had been done. And they were right. At the local mosque, where kids of Aqsa’s age attend Islamic class, the kids agreed that she’d largely brought it on herself. The imam did not disagree with them.

Got that? Western values clashed with imported Radical Islam, resulting in the brutal murder of this beautiful young girl.

As Marc Steyn explains (recent column):

they want to kill us merely because we are the other—undermines the hyper-rationalist’s entire world view... At a superficial level, the Islamo-leftist alliance makes no sense: gay feminist secular hedonists making common cause with homophobic misogynist proscriptive theocrats. From Islam’s point of view, it’s an alliance of convenience.

The Left are too dumb to understand this. Let's hope at least Libertarians who've been momentarily fooled, will wake up and smell the (Turkish) coffee.