Citing Honor Killings, Israeli-Arab Lesbian Couple Reprieved from Deportation
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Mohammad Shafia, his wife and his son were convicted of 4 honor killings in Kingston, Ont., last year.
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The website Shalom Toronto reports that the Canadian Supreme Court has accepted the appeal of Iman Musa and Majida Mugrabi, an Israeli Muslim lesbian couple who sought refugee status in Canada. The judge ordered further hearings on the request due to the possibility that they would be honor-murdered if deported to Israel
Iman and Jada came to Toronto in 2007 and shortly thereafter applied for refugee status, claiming that their lives were in danger in Israel because they maintain a lesbian relationship, which is considered an affront to their Muslim family and would surely result in their being murdered by a family member.
Their plea was rejected by the Canadian Immigration Service and the couple was ordered deported to Israel. The two women filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, to include a personal letter in which they listed the dangers to their lives from their families. They wrote:
“The reality is that if we go back home (to Israel), we will be in danger of being murdered. Same-sex relationships are not allowed in Arab countries. There were many instances of honor killings and we are the victims of that reality. We have a lesbian relationship which is prohibited in our home (in Israel). Having damaged the reputation of our families, we were forced to flee from homes, in an effort to retain a relationship with each other.”.
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We don't want them in Canada, either. Islam is 180* from anything Westerners believe, but these perverts want us to protect them from their doctrine of evil. Go elsewhere, we have too many problems already.
well they should go and be sent to gaza there they can prove them selfs to israel that they can be good jews only god can judge them.
Being Muslim or Arab is not relevant. They are Israeli citizens who are threatened by Israeli citizens and should be protected by the Israeli law enforcement system. As far as I know, no citizen is above the law. So what do we have here? A case of homophobia or a discrimination in law enforcement?