Justin Trudeau.. take a break from your ankle-biting to watch the death of Dua Khalil Aswad

Liberal MP Justin Trudeau is unhappy.

Why?

Well, in a "Study Guide" distributed by the immigration department to prospective immigrants, there is the following directive:

In Canada, men and women are equal under the law. Canada’s openness and generosity do not extend to barbaric cultural practices that tolerate spousal abuse, “honour killings,” female genital mutilation, forced marriage or other gender-based violence. Those guilty of these crimes are severely punished under Canada’s criminal laws.

And, women's rights advocates, take note of Justin's complaint:

"There's nothing that the word 'barbaric' achieves that the words 'absolutely unacceptable' would not have achieved," Trudeau, the Liberal immigration critic, said.

"We accept that these acts are absolutely unacceptable. That's not the debate. In casual conversation, I'd even use the word barbaric to describe female circumcision, for example, but in an official Government of Canada publication, there needs to be a little bit of an attempt at responsible neutrality."

He would prefer that the guide suggest that female genital mutilation is "unacceptable".  He thinks that in referencing the torture and killing of women, we need to attempt "responsible neutrality".

Better yet, perhaps we should just say that honour killings are "frowned upon" in Canada.

Here is the road that political correctness takes us on, this liberal moral relativism where we need to be careful about how we refer to men killing women who dare to oppose their will.

Not in our Canada, Justin.

Why?

Well, Justin, let me introduce you to Dua Khalil Aswad.  Of course, you won't be able to actually meet her, because, well, she is dead now.  The best you can do would be to get to know here a little bit.

Perhaps the best introduction would be for you to watch this video of 17 year old Iraqi, Dua Khalil Aswad, dragged from her home and stoned to death because she dared to fall in love with a Sunni Muslim boy.  As reported in The Guardian and in the Institute of War and Peace Reporting after her death in the town square, Aswad's body was tied behind a car and dragged through the streets. She was buried with the remains of a dog, allegedly to demonstrate that she was worthless.  Eventually, her body was "exhumed and sent to the Medico-Legal Institute in Mosul so that tests could be performed to see whether she had died a virgin, results had then come back that confirm that she was in fact still a virgin."



Sorry Justin.

There is no other word to describe this sort of thing but "barbaric".  And if that offends barbarians and dissuades them from feeling welcome in our country, well, I'm actually pretty good with that.  Anyone who would be offended by such a description is NOT welcome in my Canada.

But then again, I'm not jumping up and down crying about Israel defending itself against Palestinian terrorists either.

Color me funny that way.