A Snapshot of Our Glorious Multiculti Tapestry Reveals What Could Well Have Been Another Shafia Case

This is from a letter to the editor that appears in the Barrie (Ontario) Examiner:

...I have witnessed first-hand in Barrie a few years ago, through my business, where a beautiful 16-year-old Afghani girl came crying to me and telling me her problems with her family for being too strict to the point they uttered death threats to her.

She didn't have a boyfriend, nor was she involved in other typical teenage activities.

She simply wanted to go to school and her parents thought since she was going to turn 17, should get married.

When she refused to marry her cousin from Afghanistan, she came to me one day crying.
I told her to speak to her guidance counsellor where she was attending school.

She told me she did and was told they could not interfere because her parents told them it's their religious right.

There was enough evidence that this young lady was beaten. I called the school on her behalf and they refused to talk to me or return my calls.

I told her I would call the police on her behalf, but she shook like a leaf and said 'no, please' for her father had threatened to have her killed by her uncle who lives in Toronto if she vowed to dishonour the family.

I stood there helpless and kept in touch with her through her brother after learning she was pulled out of school at the age of 17 and married to her cousin 10 years her senior, who now lives in Canada.

The only power our schools have is to destroy families by filing frivolous Children's Aid Society complaints against the non-Muslims.

I didn't think religion freedom surpassed our Criminal Code.