Girls and women

I was going to write something frivolous about how Vancouver is third on the list of worst-dressed women in the world (apparently because of yoga outfits) and how Canada fares little better, but lately the news has been full of autrocities against women. So I decided to mention a few of these. They are sickening.

The best thing in China, India and other similar cultures is if the doctor gets to your village in time to give you an ultrasound to determine the sex of your baby. If it's a girl, goodbye; she is aborted on the spot. If the doctor is too late and you give birth to a female, you can immediately throw her into a ditch -- dug for that purpose -- move on and try to have a boy. Dowries are the reason -- along with the male offspring who will bring his wife into your home and look after you when you are infirm. If you recklessly decide to keep the girl, the next step is to have her genitally mutilated. She may die, but if not then, probably in childbirth.

If you actually keep your daughters and emigrate to Canada, you can still kill them if they "dishonour" you. That happens if they want to be Canadian, fall in love, not wear the hijab, get an education, become a doctor...in other words, if they want to be "persons". This hit me like a ton of bricks when I read coverage of the trial of an Afganni father, his wife and son who are currently on trial in Kingston for the "honour" killings of their three teenaged daughters and the father's first wife. The crimes of the former were to be "Canadian"; the crime of the latter was to be barren.

This all happened in 2009, when the family lived in Montreal. The evidence is that the father, mother and brother pushed the daughters' car into the Rideau locks on the Kingston waterway and they all drowned. The father's story is that the girls took the car on a joyride, but police wiretap recordings show that the father and mother were proud of their deed and hoped that...."God would sh-t on their graves." They stuck to their belief that they had killed their evil daughters -- aged 18, 17 and 13 -- and that they would do it all over again "if the daughers lived".

Canadian authorities are not off the hook. All three girls pleaded at various times with both their schools and child protective authorities to take them into custody. All such pleas fell on deaf ears. Have we become so "politically-correct" that we let parents kill their children? I guess we have.

How sickening. But, as Christie Blatchford wrote, "These people might have well still been living in Afghanistan."

How lucky we Canadians are. No wonder there are a million backlogged cases of people who want to be Canadian citizens.