Dhimmi alert: Betraying the memory of Aqsa

If any of you regularly follow Atlas Shrugs, Pamela Geller’s blog, then you are familiar with her dedicated fight to honour the memory of Aqsa Parvez, a Canadian victim of a Muslim honour killing, brutally murdered by her own father, who was laid to rest in an unmarked grave. Pamela worked tirelessly, aided by Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, to properly memorialize Aqsa with a headstone. Today, though, both Pamela and — in particular — Aqsa have been betrayed.

Read: Town remembers slain teen

Regardless of the circumstances of Parvez’s death, Scott McLeod, the fire chief for Fonthill, one of several communities that make up Pelham, and town Councillor Sharon Cook, were determined the student would not be forgotten.

“There seemed to be so much desperation to forget she had died,” McLeod said recently.

He said he felt he had to do something after seeing a haunting photo of her burial site about a year ago. She had been dead for more than a year but her grave had only a numeric marker supplied by Meadowvale Cemetery in Brampton. While there was nothing to indicate she was buried in the cemetery’s Islamic section, it is not uncommon for Muslim graves to be unmarked.

“That was the icing on the cake. … It had nothing to do with whether she was a Muslim or not,” McLeod said. “In my mind, it seemed she had just been forgotten.”

Now, please take the time to read this at Atlas Shrugs: Disappointing Aqsa.

Months later, when both the cemetery and the University of Guelph caved at the last minute and refused to honor Aqsa, Scott McLeod, a regular Atlas reader, was one of several Canadian readers who contacted me to scout new locations in Canada.

It was McLeod who contacted Pamela. The Star makes it sound as if the whole effort was the fire chief’s and Ms. Cook’s. And I, too, am disgusted by McLeod’s own words — It had nothing to do with whether she was a Muslim or not. May I say, spoken like a true dhimmi! Aqsa’s murder — by her own father — had everything to do with Aqsa and her family being Muslim.

The inscription on the bench is equally offensive to Aqsa’s memory. As Robert Spencer says in his letter to McLeod:

Aqsa wasn’t murdered by the “quest of integrating cultures.” Aqsa wasn’t “lost” to any such quest, the way an army would lose a soldier in battle or a construction crew would lose a worker who slipped through the scaffolding on a highrise. Aqsa was murdered by her father, who was acting upon deeply ingrained Islamic principles cheapening the lives of women and legitimizing the killing of children by their fathers. These principles are enshrined in Islamic law (and yes, I can give you chapter and verse.) It isn’t “anti-Muslim” to stand against that. It is anti-human to dissemble and lie about it. It just enables honor killings to keep happening.

Mr. McLeod, you contacted Pamela, not the other way round. Then you disrespected her, but worse than that, you betrayed Aqsa’s memory. This was not about you. It was about a young woman murdered by her Muslim fanatic father and then discarded by her own family in an unmarked grave to be forgotten as if she never existed.

Mr. McLeod, you owe both Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer an apology, but what you’ve done to betray Aqsa’s memory is unforgivable.

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