Strangling While Muslim
In a horribly obscene and bizarre bit of multi-culti-flavored injustice, a Muslim mother who strangled her daughter with a headscarf will not go to jail. Not for one day. Daryl Slade writes for Canada.com that the judge, Sal LoVecchio, acquitted the mother, Aset Magomadova, of second-degree murder and found her guilty of manslaughter in the death of her daughter, Aminat, 14:

He placed her on probation for three years with several conditions, including taking counselling for grief, depression and anger management.

...Magomadova was charged after the deadly incident at their home the morning of Feb. 26, 2007, after Aminat refused to go to court to be sentenced for assaulting a female teacher at her school.

The devout Muslim mother claimed Aminat came at her with a knife in her sewing room, where she prayed several times a day. She said she reacted by wrapping the scarf around her daughter's neck and twice told the girl to put the knife down before the teen lost consciousness.

A knife was found in the room, but the daughter's fingerprints were not on it.

LoVecchio, who rejected a defence of self-defence, deemed the woman did not intend to kill the teen, even though medical examiner Dr. Sam Andrews testified that death as a result of such an act would have taken at least 2 1/2 minutes.

Other stories call the girl "promiscuous," leading me to suspect this was yet another honor-killing. More on her behavior here, in this Jen Gerson story in the Calgary Herald:

According to court documents released at the 2009 trial, victim Aminat Magomadova didn't fit in at school because of her poor English, weight and clothing.

She fell in with a bad crowd and in 2007 claimed to be using drugs, stealing and behaving promiscuously. She had run away several times and was known to stay at youth shelters.

Of course, under Sharia law (scroll down for photos of the text right out of the manual), killing one's child is a-okay -- not subject to "retaliation" (i.e., punishment):

In Book O, titled "Justice," in section 1, "Who is Subject to Retaliation for Injurious Crimes," section o1.1 reads, "Retaliation is obligatory ... against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right..."

However, o1.2 clarifies (above) that "The following are not subject to retaliation" and then lists -- after the lovely, egalitarian "Muslim for killing a non-Muslim" and "Jewish or Christian subject ... for killing an apostate" -- "(4) a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring":

Here's how it worked out for another Muslim girl in Canada -- from a FrontPage story by Stephen Brown:

Pakistani-Canadian Aqsa Parvez, 16, was strangled by her father in an honor murder last Monday in the Toronto-area city of Mississauga. Refusing to wear the Islamic hijab, Parvez, who was herself born in Pakistan, wanted to live the normal lifestyle of a Canadian teenage girl, but ran into conflict with her strict, religious father. One friend and schoolmate said the Canadian teenager was afraid of her father and often came to school wearing bruises, the result of his violence.

"She was scared of her father; he was always controlling her," the friend told the National Post, a Canadian national newspaper. "She wasn't allowed to go out or do anything."

Nevertheless, the Grade 11 student, according to friends, would leave home wearing the hijab but arrive at school in western-style clothes, having changed on the way. This was part of her courageous desire to live her own life and overcoming the fear in which she lived.