Muslim Dad Jailed for Threats against Daughter

In Canada, they jail the Muslim fathers of runaways who threaten their daughters. In Ohio, they move to return them to their fathers. Perhaps Rifqa ought to go to ....Canada. Oh yeah, I forgot, she is under house arrest, sharia law enforced in Ohio. (slaps head)

Taxi boss jailed for threats against daughter The Sun hat tip Sounder

The city’s taxi union boss was handed a year in jail Tuesday for what a judge deemed an “honour crime.”

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.

The judge noted that Al Mezel, who came from Kuwait 20 years ago, is a community leader — a founder of his mosque, city council candidate and representative of 1,500 taxi drivers.

But she wrote that a year is the minimum to denounce what he’s done and deter others.

The Crown had asked for up to two years.

Eman Al Mezel testified she’d stained the family “sharaf” by running away and shedding the hijab and killing her was the only way to clean it.

Comments

[Jonah]

That's great news. Good for them! GO Canada!!!
I usually only get the bad news from Canada so this is especially encouraging to learn.

Now, Canada may be ahead of the US in ways related to containing Muslim family violence against females. I don't have any stats at my finger tips, but it seems that they have had a lot more problems, at least per capita, than the US.

So, in the name of all the girls of every nationality lost, those currently in danger, and all of humanity, GO Canada!!! I hope the US can learn some lessons here.

[PersonOfTheBook]

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.
==================================================
Let's see: he threatens to break her legs and kill her and smash her computer. Sounds like the way Al Capone (or one of Al's boys) would have treated his daughter.

Also, HE SOLD HER FOR $9000!

Boy, what a great dad!

[PersonOfTheBook]

Speaking of Al Capone, the guy's name is Al! Al Mezal.

[Lenin-McCarthy]

My best new friend says :

In Canada, they jail the Muslim (sic) fathers of runaways who threaten their daughters. In Ohio, they move to return them to their fathers. Perhaps Rifqa ought to go to ....Canada. Oh yeah, I forgot, she is under house arrest, sharia law enforced in Ohio. (slaps head)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
If Rifqa is successful to getting into Canada, she has a home in Alberta. The only problem is getting beyond Canada Customs.

[Jonah]

"Sounds like the way Al Capone (or one of Al's boys) would have treated his daughter."

Actually sounds like Rifqa's dad.

[Gordon MacDonald]

I am Canadian and I don't think there is much to celebrate - the guy got 1 year - which after mandatory parole (freakin stupid concept) comes top 4 months in jail. The guy should be doing swerious time. Not only did he commit a crime, he created a hate crime. His actions attack the core values of the West. Personally I think he should be deported. The West does not need his type.

[Gordon MacDonald]

OOPS:

"comes top" should be "come to"
"created a hate crime" should be "commited a hate crime"

"doing swerious time" should be "serious"

(thats what I get for checking out blogs while working!)