When a Canada-based girl of Pakistani origin refused to wear hijab, his father who unfortunately was a Pakistani strangled the girl to death with his own hands and ensured a place in heaven for himself. This heart wrenching and horrifying incident took place in Missisau in the neighbourhood of Toronto. In the report released from Canada, it was said that 57 year old Perwez strangled his 16 year old daughter Aqsa Perwez. The girl was immediately taken to the nearby hospital and was kept on ventilation but the powerful hands of the father did not allow any treatment to be effective and the girl was sacrificed to the altar of the ‘religion of peace’ the same night. Later Perwez was arrested…..
Asma Khatoon, the Chief Editor of a woman’s magazine Muslim Girls told reporters that during his tenure, General Ziaul Haque invited Arab Wahabi Ulema and militants who apart from waging Jihad against the Russians married Pakistani women and on the instructions of their husbands these women started the tradition of hijab in Pakistan. Hijab was not in vogue in Pakistan before Ziaul Haque. -- Asad Mufti
By Asad Mufti
When a Canada-based girl of Pakistani origin refused to wear hijab, his father who unfortunately was a Pakistani strangled the girl to death with his own hands and ensured a place in heaven for himself. This heart wrenching and horrifying incident took place in Missisau in the neighbourhood of Toronto. In the report released from Canada, it was said that 57 year old Perwez strangled his 16 year old daughter Aqsa Perwez. The girl was immediately taken to the nearby hospital and was kept on ventilation but the powerful hands of the father did not allow any treatment to be effective and the girl was sacrificed to the altar of the ‘religion of peace’ the same night. Later Perwez was arrested.
After reading the news I wondered what the difference was between the pre-Islam and post-Islam age. People would bury their daughters alive then and strangle them to death even now. The deceased girl Aqsa Pervez was studying in the local Applewood Higher Secondary School. Her class-fellows said that Aqsa had some differences with her family for some time as she had refused to wear hijab. No girl in her school wore hijab. The students said that Aqsa would come out in hijab on the insistence of her father and change into general dress after reaching school. The girl students recalled how after reaching school she would rush to the washroom and change her dress. This murder has unleashed a wave of shock through a peaceful country like Canada. When journalists interviewed a woman staying in Toronto for a long time she said,” Hijab has never been a part of the Pakistani society. It has come from Arab and the Arabic culture is different from that of Pakistan.” The woman identified as Sonia Ahmad further said, “The man (Md Pervez) might believe that he had taken a right step and would go straight to heaven where 70 houris would be waiting for him.” She also said, “We Pakistanis are South Asians and the South Asian culture is different.”
Another woman Asma Khatoon, the Chief Editor of a woman’s magazine Muslim Girls told reporters that during his tenure, General Ziaul Haque invited Arab Wahabi Ulema and militants who apart from waging Jihad against the Russians married Pakistani women and on the instructions of their husbands these women started the tradition of hijab in Pakistan. Hijab was not in vogue in Pakistan before Ziaul Haque.
The Editor in Chief of the Muslim Girl vehemently opposed the imposition of the parents’ will on young girls. “Why the woman is victimized is the question which is being asked by one and all today. In my view the answer is plain and simple. One thing is obvious to all that we could not wriggle out of the feudal system, customs and social mores. The other reality which also stares in the face is our jurisprudential literature. I don’t want to say anything more on this subject as some hijab-clad women also feature in the list but this jurisprudential science has not treated the woman very well. The place accorded to women by our faqeehs centuries after the advent of Islam is pretty controversial. I can’t help saying that our knowledge of the religion in terms of women is very poor, obscurantist, feudal and based on bias and ill-will. That is the reason, under this jurisprudential literature an unhealthy mindset about women has developed in the Pakistani society and this mindset has not only made its home in Pakistan but is also showing its effects in the west crossing the borders. Wherever we go we carry the burden of this unhealthy mindset on our head.
Take this example. The West has a democratic society and everyone here has the complete right to express his views. Is not the testimony of a woman considered equal to that of a man? Be it Britain or Canada, Holland or America, none of them is now a country of a single ethnic group or culture any longer. On the contrary the entire West has become a multicultural region. But it does not mean that a new culture should be imposed on the centuries old culture and values.
As we all know, the culture of the sub-continent is almost the same, But isn’t it true that people coming from India and settling here have not only realized the importance of the Western culture but have also accepted it. It is strange that there are Indian Muslims too with Hindus and Sikhs among them. In my view the first generation of Pakistani immigrants had gone abroad only with their beliefs, sects and communities. The arrival of ‘ulema’ and maulvis had not started yet. But later it so happened that from the second and third generation, ‘ulema’ alongwith their beliefs, sects and communities reached and spread in all the lanes and by lanes of every western country. They started blowing the trumpet of communalism and sectarianism as they did in Pakistan. Not only that, declaring this society as kufristan, and pointing out the vices of this society to the new generation, they sent out wrong messages that produced Muslims like Pervez. In fact, Md Pervez who had been residing in Canada has never been a part of this society and can never be a part of this society. Won’t it be better for him then to go back to his own people?
Source: Ajkal, Pakistan
URL: http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamUrduSection_1.aspx?ArticleID=3640
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