Honor Killing in ummm CANADA!!!!!!!!

I recently found this shocking piece of news about how immigrants are bringing their Honor killings to the west in this case Canada.. It pretty messed up and i wanted to share the news papers aritcle with you guys....

This is part of the article news letter you can read the rest of it here >>>http://www.canada.com/news/Honour+killings+females+rise+Canada+Expert/1821831/story.html <<

As many as 5,000 women and girls lose their lives — most at the hands of family members — in "honour killings" around the world each year, according to the United Nations.Up to a dozen have died for the same reason in Canada in the last decade, and it's happening more often, says Amin Muhammad, a psychiatrist who studies honour killings at Memorial University in Newfoundland.One of the earliest honour killings involving a Canadian occurred in 2000, when Maple Ridge, B.C., resident Jaswinder Sidhu was murdered in India in what police called a contract killing, after she married a man she met while travelling.In 2003, Amandeep Atwal, 17, died after her father stabbed her 17 times. The Kitimat, B.C., teen had been secretly seeing a boyfriend.Sixteen-year-old Aqsa Parvez's father and brother are currently awaiting trial for her strangulation death in 2007, and friends said the Brampton, Ont., teen had been clashing with her family over her refusal to wear the hijab.In May, an Ottawa man was sentenced to life in prison for killing his sister, Khatera Sadiqi, 20, and her fiance."We cannot say there's a huge number of cases, but now the cases are increasing, and very soon we'll have a problem in Canada," says Muhammad.

You can read the rest on the link above... I found it crazy that its happening in Canada so when i found the article i had to put it up on blogger.. The question is if it happens in Canada what would stop immigrants from bringing it to the United States.....