A Somali refugee in Canada, Ibrahim Osman, 23, received a remarkably light sentence of two month for beating his sister with a power cord and threatening to shave her hair off when she tried to go a nightclub to celebrate her birthday. He considered dancing at clubs to violate Islamic standards for women.
While he pleaded guilty and Provincial court Judge Kenn Bellerose called the assault “very degrading,” he received a sentence that, in my view, hardly fits the crime. He claimed to have responded out of an Islamic tradition where brothers protect and punish sisters for immoral actions. His sister was found bruised and beaten with 20 to 25 whip marks on her back.
Osman’s mother Shaffiga Hussein was also charged with beating the girl in the same incident, though it is not clear whether she will be punished in the incident.
Osman also pleaded guilty to threatening to kill his mother during another incident a month ago as well as damaging cells at the city police station and the provincial courthouse in Regina.
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Happy Birthday!
And you gave your sister a gift that she clearly wanted and you wanted to keep from her: a completely valid reason to completely abandon your (and this word is important) preferred traditions.
Hoist meet petard.
Some people just want to make you beat then into some senses.
From the main article:
“Osman also pleaded guilty to threatening to kill his mother during another incident a month ago, and admitted to charges of mischief for damaging cells at the city police station and the provincial courthouse in Regina.
Osman has been in jail since his arrest on the threatening charge last month. Bellerose imposed two months more for the assault, and one month consecutive for the threat.”
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Looks like the defendant is going blind as well and has been incarcerated for about a month since the arrest. I suspect he actually received considerably more time on the accumulated charges considering his pre-trial incarceration and that likely led the judge to his decision rather than any deference to Sharia law.
This dude needs to be sent down to James Madison University.