Only a few weeks after violent
assaults from Muslims claimed the lives of two Canadian citizens, the Canadian
Parliament voted to crack down on cruel and unusual Muslim practices against
women. Not one to be cowed by anybody or anything, Prime Minister Stephen
Harper and his government showed their determination to uphold the standards of
civilized society despite the tragic murder of their citizens by Islamic terrorists. The law they enacted is boldly titled, “Zero Tolerance for
Barbaric Cultural Practices Act.” Canada,
under the leadership of Mr. Harper, refuses to be intimidated.
“The Canadian
government, under Prime Minister Stephen Harper, continues to take a hard
stance against Islamist extremism - including its laws against women's rights
and freedoms.”
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Canada: Crackdown on "Barbaric" Islamist Practices Against Women
'Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act' to crack down on forced marriage, 'honor killings,' underage marriage.
By Dalit Halevy and Tova Dvorin
First Publish: 11/9/2014, 8:22 AM
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| Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper (R) with Foreign Secretary John Baird, Sat. Nov. 8, 2014 (Adrian Wyld/THE CANADIAN PRESS) |
The
Canadian government, under Prime Minister Stephen Harper, continues to take a
hard stance against Islamist extremism -
including its laws against women's rights and freedoms.
Dubbed
the "Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act," the Canadian
Parliament released new laws last week targeting "violence against women
or girls, including spousal abuse, violence in the name of so-called “honour”,
or other, mostly gender-based violence," according to its official website.
Ottawa
also stressed in the explanatory note that the practices are
"intolerable" and that lawbreakers would be dealt with harshly, to
send a message to the current and future immigrant populations in Canada.
As part
of this, new immigrants married to more than one wife or who were convicted of
crimes against women in their home countries
will not be allowed to emigrate to Canadian soil, and immigrants currently in
the country may be extradited to their home countries even without a previous
conviction if found guilty of bigamy, the law stated.
Civil
marriage shall be determined by law, it added,
and second marriages shall be considered valid only with the free consent of
both spouses in the event of remarriage after a civil divorce.
The laws
also stipulate, clearly, that 16 is the minimum age for marriage and that the
marriage of any two citizens between the ages of 16-18 can only be finalized
with parental consent from both sides.
Forced
marriages are now a criminal act, and all parties - including parents, any
religious officials, and any other authority involved in the union - could now
be tried, convicted, and sentenced to up to 5 years' prison
time.
That ban
will now also include taking children under 16 to foreign nations for the
express purpose of forced marriage - an all-too-common trend in immigrant
Muslim communities across the globe which may be increasing, according to a
recent documentary on the subject in Vice News.
Changes
have also been made to the current Criminal Code regarding "honor killings," as well.
"The
proposed amendment would limit the defense of provocation so that lawful
conduct by the victim that might be perceived by the accused as an insult, or
offend that person or their sense of family “honor” or reputation, cannot be
used to reduce murder to manslaughter," the bill stipulates.
The new
bill surfaces after multiple Islamist terrorist attacks in Canada over the past
several weeks, including a shootout in the Canadian Parliament and the
hit-and-run in Quebec against Canadian soldiers by a terrorist affiliated with
Islamic State.
It also
surfaces amid statistics that "honor killings" have been on the rise
worldwide, but specifically in Canada where scant legal data on the issue
indicated in 2012 that the rate of the murders had tripled in a 12-year
period.
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