.... “He went on to make a comparison by stating that even an elephant, when it has too much weight on its back, will start to moan or cry.”
For Mr. Khairi, the court heard, that weight was his family’s willingness to embrace Canadian culture after emigrating from Afghanistan by way of India. It was the fact that his children did not dress sufficiently Muslim. It was that his wife not only allowed this, but stood up for those freedoms, and her own.
And so, one night at the tail end of winter 2008, Mr. Khairi decided enough was enough, the court heard. [National Post] Read more
