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Canadian police are investigating a murder in which a Muslim father reportedly beat his 16-year-old daughter to death because she would not wear the traditional head covering for Islamic women, the hijab. But at least one Canadian news outlet found that information too hot to handle.Other Canadian news services reported that Muhammad Parvez is Muslim and that friends of his 16-year-old daughter, Aqsa Parvez, said her father beat her because she would not wear the hijab. But the for-profit Canadian television network CTV alluded to those facts this way: "Friends tell CTV News the girl came from a religious background. They add she had trouble at home and recently ran away. Friends say the fight was over the girl's choice of dress."Tim Graham with the Media Research Center says the CTV report seems almost intentionally confusing."From that perspective, it could be, she could be a Methodist and she was wearing a miniskirt," Graham responded. "You just have no idea from this report what it's really about."And Graham says there can only be one reason CTV would omit the references to the family's Islamic beliefs and the dispute over the Muslim head covering. "I would only have to guess that there's someone there with an extreme level of political correctness, who looked at the script and said, 'No, we're not going to say that, we're going to make it vaguer and less informative,'" the conservative media analyst offered."I think we have in this culture today, in the West, a hypersensitivity to all things Muslim," Graham continued, "that you simply cannot say things about the Muslim faith that you can easily say about Judeo-Christian faiths."The government-owned CBC television network, which has historically been more liberal than CTV, reported the full story, including the details about the father's Muslim religion and the dispute over the hijab.As in the days of Noah....
