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Guilty: Muslim Family in Canada Convicted in Honor Killings

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Guilty: Muslim Family in Canada Convicted in Honor Killings

by Phyllis Chesler
PJ Media
February 2, 2012

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1068/canada-honor-killings-muslim-family-guilty

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On Sunday, January 29, 2012, two years and seven months after the bodies of four Canadian women all from the same family were found murdered, after a ten week trial, and after fifteen hours of deliberations, a jury voted "guilty" to first degree murder for three other members of the Shafia family.

Although I myself initially hailed this as possibly a turning point in Canada in terms of the nation's failed multicultural policy, I now wonder why the life sentence, which in Canada means 25 years without parole, was not 25 years without parole for each life coldly snuffed out.

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