Sikander Ziad Hashmi

Against the backdrop of the Shafia honour-killing trial in Kingston, Montreal’s Concordia University graduate Sikander Ziad Hashmi, an imam with the Islamic Society of Kingston, tells us “there is no such thing as ‘honour killing’ in Islam.” Last week, Hashmi challenged readers of Canada’s National Post Full Comment online to find one classical Islamic religious text that endorses the murder of a family member to preserve honour. Coverage appears in  WorldNetDaily and Canada Free Press.