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2009-07-23 Home Front: Culture Wars

Three or so weeks back, a submerged car was found in the Rideau Canal in Kingston, Ont., containing the bodies of three teenage girls and their aunt -- a story initially reported as Mysterious Death Of 4 Quebecers Baffles Kingston Police. When it emerged that the four female Quebecers were, in fact, Muslim, the tearful parents offered up a strange tale of an impromptu midnight driving lesson gone tragically wrong (Driving Lesson May Have Led To Drowning).

La Presse is now reporting that the girls' father, mother, and brother have been arrested en route to Montreal Airport, and that the deceased "aunt" or (alternatively) "cousin" was, in fact, the girls' father's first wife. The words "crime d'honneur" are beginning to creep into newspaper accounts.

Meanwhile, the blogger Scaramouche suggests that, while they're looking into honor killings in the Kingston area, the constabulary might take a gander at another curious aquatic accident this month:

Police say 14-year-old Kinza Kaianad died Monday evening at Kingston General Hospital as a result of injuries she sustained Saturday in a hotel pool in Gananoque, roughly 30 kilometres east of Kingston.

Her mother, 43-year-old Naila Yasmin, died in hospital on Sunday.

Yasmin, Kaianad and another daughter, age 11, were found unconscious in the indoor hotel pool just before 9 a.m. Saturday.

There would seem to be a statistically improbable number of multiple drownings of female members of Muslim families in Kingston this summer. If you're a young female Muslim, and you have any say in the matter, you might want to vacation elsewhere.

I'm guessing skiing would be just as dangerous ...

[UPDATE: The third Muslim girl found in the swimming pool has died. That's seven drowned young Muslim females showing up in the same morgue within a month. In other circumstances, they'd be planning the movie with Ashley Judd or some such as the crusading feminist Assistant DA. But as the M-word's involved I expect poor Zainab Shafi and the rest will be quickly forgotten.]
I can't think of anything to say about this; it is self explanitory. Sad in so many ways.

Posted by tipover 2009-07-23 11:52|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 This needs to be spun as an environmental story. The crusading DA can go after the men for poluting the river by dumping a car in it. Their motivations and religion can be altered to increase world wide market share.

Posted by rjschwarz 2009-07-23 12:36|| 2009-07-23 12:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Wait, was Mary Jo Kopeckne a Muslim?

Posted by regular joe 2009-07-23 16:43|| 2009-07-23 16:43|| Front Page Top

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