November 11, 2009
Well At Least he Was Honest About Wanting To Murder His Daughter
The city’s taxi union boss was handed a year in jail Tuesday for what a judge deemed an “honour crime.”"seriously dangerous belief system"? Does anyone else here see that elephant in the room?Yusef Salam Al Mezel, 44, had pleaded guilty to criminally harassing his 23-year-old daughter, Eman, over three weeks in July 2007.
“Mr. Al Mezel has threatened his daughter with serious violence and has caused her to fear for her safety in the name of honour,” Judge Lynn Ratushny wrote. “He has committed the crime of harassment against her in the name of honour.”
Al Mezel admitted to pushing his daughter, threatening to break her legs and kill her and smashing her computer. When she fled marriage to a Syrian man for a $9,000 dowry, he stalked her to a shelter and a friend’s home.
He sent her e-mails threatening her uncles and cousins would go “crazy” over the family’s honour and to come home before someone got hurt.
Police spirited the young woman — and the family sheltering her — out of Ottawa.
There’s no evidence Al Mezel would have killed her but his threats “invoke a seriously dangerous belief system that can and has led to violence against women,” Ratushny wrote.
Hat Tip: Robert.
By Howie at November 11, 2009 08:42 AM | | l digg this
