[ April 17, 2024 ]
19 year old Zainab, 17 year old Sahar, 13 year old Geeti, and 50 year old “Aunt” Rona Shafia were honor murdered by their parents Tooba and Muhammad Shafia and their 18 year old brother. They planned and executed the murders from Islamic outrage over the defiance of daughters and the alliance with them of their aunt treated for years as a burden and a slave.
Aunt Rona wrote bitterly that Tooba had separated her from their co-husband, took her money, gradually limited the nights Rona and Shafia were permitted to sleep together, threatened to throw her out of their triplex Montreal apartment. “Miserable me, who wouldn’t question Shafia about anything,” wrote Rona, “who swallowed everything because I had no choice.’’
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Tooba allegedly told her: “You’re not his wife. You’re my servant. Your family got rid of you. Who would want a dead weight around its neck? Your life is in my hands.”
The family emigrated to Montreal in 2007 after spending about a decade in Dubai, Pakistan and Australia. By then, Tooba had borne Shafia seven children. But there was deep friction in the household, with the daughters claiming to police, teachers and child welfare authorities that they were abused by their father and Hamed. Even their younger brother, a 12-year-old child, scolded Sahar once when discovering her in a restaurant with a boy. The males of the family, regardless of age, felt entitled to discipline the girls.
Mother convicted in Shafia daughters’ canal killings granted 5-hour escorted absence from prison
Tooba Yahya allowed to visit mother’s grave ‘for humanitarian and compassionate reasons’
By: Colin Harris · CBC News · | December 14, 2019:
Tooba Yahya, seen here before her conviction, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of three of her daughters and her husband’s first wife. She is currently serving a life sentence in a medium-security institution.
The woman convicted for her role in the so-called honour killings of her three daughters and her husband’s first wife a decade ago has been granted an escorted temporary absence from prison to visit her mother’s grave.
The Parole Board of Canada says it approved Tooba Yahya’s request “for humanitarian and compassionate reasons,” because her risk of recidivism is low and because the security risk that the absence poses is “manageable.”
Yahya, along with her husband, Mohammad Shafia, and son Hamed, were found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder in Kingston, Ont., in January 2012 in a court case that attracted international attention.
The bodies of the three Shafia daughters — Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13 — and Shafia’s first wife, Rona Mohammad Amir, were found in the family’s car, submerged in a lock on the Rideau Canal in Kingston on June 30, 2009.
The family, originally from Afghanistan, had moved to Montreal two years earlier.
The judge said the murders were committed in the name of a “notion of honour that is founded upon the domination and control of women, a sick notion of honour that has absolutely no place in any civilized society.”
The jury heard that Shafia was furious with how his daughters dressed and behaved. Jurors heard recordings made after their deaths, where the girls’ father called them “treacherous” and “whores.”
Entries from Amir’s diary were also presented during the trial, in which she wrote that Yahya “took the power of the household” from her and that Yahya was indifferent to a suicide attempt made by Sahar, the middle daughter.
Shafia had been married to both women, though the family had claimed that Amir was a cousin when she immigrated to Canada.
‘You said that you could not save them’Throughout the 2012 trial, the accused maintained they were never at the locks when the Nissan Sentra carrying the four victims plunged into the canal.
But at the hearing in which Yahya requested to visit her mother’s grave, she offered a different version of those events.
“You confirmed that your husband, with the complicity of your son, committed the murder in front of your eyes,” says the Parole Board of Canada decision, dated Sept. 10, which has been obtained by CBC News.
Yahya told the board that, on the night of the killings, she was in the Nissan with the victims while Shafia and Hamed went to find a motel in their Lexus SUV.
Mohammad Shafia, left, Yahya and their son Hamed are escorted into court on the first day of their trial in Kingston, Ont., in October 2011. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)According to Yahya’s new story, Shafia told her to get in the Lexus when they returned. As he drove the SUV into the Nissan, she asked him what he was doing, and he replied he was “going to kill them.”
She said that she tried to stop him from where she was sitting in the back seat, to no avail. He then rammed the Nissan a second time, plunging it into the water.
“At the hearing, you admitted that you are guilty for not protecting your children. You said that you could not save them,” the decision says.
Yahya, Shafia and Hamed were sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.
‘Compliant, polite and respectful’Yahya currently has a medium-security classification, but is seeking a transfer to a minimum-security institution.
The decision notes Yahya’s “impeccable” behaviour in prison and that, after her appeal was dismissed in 2016, she has talked more openly about the killings.
“Since the beginning of your incarceration, your behaviour has been impeccable. You are compliant, polite and respectful of the rules, staff members and other inmates,” the decision says.
The ruling notes that Yahya has not been in touch with Shafia since she filed for divorce in 2017. Her husband has refused to sign the papers.
The Parole Board granted the absence to enable Yahya to visit the grave of her mother, who died last May. Yahya told the board that she wants to say goodbye, even though she is still angry at her mother for allowing her to wed a married man at the age of 17.
She said the graveside visit, which she wants to make with her children and brother, would be her first step toward her “social reintegration into society.”
The date of the five-hour escorted temporary absence from prison was yet to be determined. It is not known where Yahya is being held, as the location of the prison was redacted in the documents.
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18 Comments
4 years ago
Another missed opportunity.
4 years ago
More proof that the only good muslim is a DEAD muslim!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4 years ago
How often do non-muslim inmates get opportunities to leave prison to visit the graves of their loved ones in Canuckastan?
4 years ago
“because her risk of recidivism is low and because the security risk that the absence poses is “manageable.” In other words, no daughters left to murder.
The Canadian parole system has too many politically correct fools running the show. Her crime should eliminate compassion for her. She is just being a compliant prisoner and keeping her head down.
I remember the news about the crime and the trial. Her guilt was unquestionable.
4 years ago
Canada? That explains it…..
4 years ago
TURD-0’s new Canada……
4 years ago
Reply to
ed
Yes, this disgraceful event represents Canada today in which criminals are granted vastly more “humanitarian consideration” and “compassion” than their victims and grieving loved ones. Long prison sentences for murder are reduced to 7 or 8 years after an appeal and a vile female child murderer is found in a healing lodge awaiting release – after only 8 or 9 years in prison. Ah yes, such is the human compassion for horrible murderers from witless parole boards that no longer possess an ounce of decency or moral impulse. This is now a never-ending process with no real public outrage against such disgusting events. They simply highlight the general collapse of morals in Canada, a circumstance now reflected all over the Western world.
4 years ago
Twenty-five years? For killing 4 family members; 3 of them her daughters? Where was her humanity?
4 years ago
Reply to
Watto
Where is justice for the dead people talk about a miscarriage of justice Canada is a pathetic lost cause !.
4 years ago
What absolute hypocrisy but the norm for muslims.No chance of recidivism? a muslim: they NEVER change. If the situation repeats so will he. In my world she would have been hanged and still should be,. In fact the judge who sentenced her and the one who allowed this should both do a minimum of 5 years labour in gaol.
4 years ago
Whenever you hear about the killing of a Muslim you must suspect it’s an honor killing. There are Muslim hit men hired to do the killings. Recently, in Houston a former Muslim woman working at a bodega were gunned down, the assailant escaped and never found. The suspicion is it was an honor killing disguised as a robbery. The young woman had converted to Christianity and was shunned and threatened by her father. The police are following a similar pattern in another 4 or five similar cases of murder. Unless the hit man is identified and caught it is improbable these cases will be solved. You probably have the same thing occurring in the UK and Europe wherever there are Muslims you have murderous beasts roaming the streets looking to enforce Sharia law.
4 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
And they have been let into the country by the thousands it is beyond insane !
4 years ago
HEY, YES, THE RECIDIVISM CHANCE WITH THEM IS LOW BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOW CONSPIRED AND KILLED ALL THE FAMILY MEMBERS WHO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH ISLAMIC DOCTRINE! SHARIA COMPLIANT CANADA THREATENS ITS OWN PEOPLE WITH ITS IMMIGRATION POLICY THAT OBVIOUSLY DIDN’T VETT THESE PEOPLE OR THEY WOULD HAVE SEEN THE KIND OF FAMILY RELATIONSHIP THAT WAS GOING ON AND SHOULD HAVE TURNED THEM AWAY! HOW MUCH IS THE FAILURE OF CANADIAN IMMIGRATION COSTING CANADIAN TAXPAYERS WITH THIS ONE FAMILY? WOW!
PERSONALLY, I DON’T CARE MORALLY ABOUT POLYGAMY BUT WHAT SOCIETY TOLERATES IN ITS OWN SOCIETY YOU REALLY DON’T WANT TO BRING IN WITH IMMIGRANTS WHO IN THEORY SHOULD BE PRIVILEGED TO COME INTO A WESTERN SOCIETY! HAPPY HOLIDAYS ESPECIALLY CHANUKAH TO ALL LOYAL RIGHTISTS!
4 years ago
Reply to
Cauc-Asian Patriot
As Trudeau (peace be upon him) put it many times, he can not drive pass a mosque without stopping in to join with the prayers. BTW, the first prayer he says is the prayer of conversion.
4 years ago
There is no honor in islam.
4 years ago
Yet they will not be deported.
