Rest in Peace Amandeep Atwal.
How horribly she died.
Stabbed 17 times, the same number as the years she had called her murderer "dad". Butchered by an angry, weak and pathetic man who then tried to convince medical personnel that her savage wounds were self-inflicted.
Amandeep's crime? Love.
The murderer, Rajinder Singh Atwal, didn't like Amandeep's boyfriend, Todd McIsaac. Somewhere in the dark recesses of his diseased ego, he felt that his disapproval justified his decision to murder Amandeep in cold blood.
This is not a complicated case. Rajinder Singh Atwal saw Amandeep as his property, and when she disappointed and disobeyed him he was enraged, and he exacted revenge with a huge knife.
May he rot in hell.
How many Canadian women have to die before people wake up and realize that many men see women as possessions? Statistics Canada says that 3 to 4 women per week are murdered by a male family member. There is always an excuse, but the real reason is that men kill women simply because they can and they want to.
What the hell is wrong with us? Why are we continuing to allow men to get away with bullying, assaulting, stalking, raping and murdering our mothers, sisters, daughters, grandmothers, aunts and spouses? Why are we allowing music, movies, books, video games and television to glorify the abuse of members of our gender? Why are we allowing ourselves to be objectified, degraded and infantilized?
When will we finally start to fight back?
Men will not easily give up their long held beliefs that they are stronger and more powerful than women, thus making it their right to dominate us. They won't willingly hand over their unearned and undeserved control. They like their self-established supremacy. Who wouldn't like to be entitled to the perks that superiority, real or imagined, can bring?
No, men will never give up their power, so women will have to take it back. That means women will have to learn to support one another and believe in their abilities and those of other women. That means women will have to do for themselves, act for themselves, think for themselves. Women must not fear failure, and must learn to grow from mistakes. Women have to tap into their inner strengths and develop their talents and passions.
Women must learn to say no and mean it, without guilt or shame. Women must come to terms with the fact that they can't make everyone happy, and it is not their collective job to nurture the world.
When women are finally fed up with the status quo, and decide that we are capable of forging our own destinies, without requiring advice or assistance from men, we will be free of the threat of violence. Men cannot hurt women if women do not give men the power to do so.
Only then will 17 year old young women be free to blaze their own trails without fear. Only then will tragedies like the vicious murder of Amandeep Atwal cease to occur.
Stabbed 17 times, the same number as the years she had called her murderer "dad". Butchered by an angry, weak and pathetic man who then tried to convince medical personnel that her savage wounds were self-inflicted.
Amandeep's crime? Love.
The murderer, Rajinder Singh Atwal, didn't like Amandeep's boyfriend, Todd McIsaac. Somewhere in the dark recesses of his diseased ego, he felt that his disapproval justified his decision to murder Amandeep in cold blood.
This is not a complicated case. Rajinder Singh Atwal saw Amandeep as his property, and when she disappointed and disobeyed him he was enraged, and he exacted revenge with a huge knife.
May he rot in hell.
How many Canadian women have to die before people wake up and realize that many men see women as possessions? Statistics Canada says that 3 to 4 women per week are murdered by a male family member. There is always an excuse, but the real reason is that men kill women simply because they can and they want to.
What the hell is wrong with us? Why are we continuing to allow men to get away with bullying, assaulting, stalking, raping and murdering our mothers, sisters, daughters, grandmothers, aunts and spouses? Why are we allowing music, movies, books, video games and television to glorify the abuse of members of our gender? Why are we allowing ourselves to be objectified, degraded and infantilized?
When will we finally start to fight back?
Men will not easily give up their long held beliefs that they are stronger and more powerful than women, thus making it their right to dominate us. They won't willingly hand over their unearned and undeserved control. They like their self-established supremacy. Who wouldn't like to be entitled to the perks that superiority, real or imagined, can bring?
No, men will never give up their power, so women will have to take it back. That means women will have to learn to support one another and believe in their abilities and those of other women. That means women will have to do for themselves, act for themselves, think for themselves. Women must not fear failure, and must learn to grow from mistakes. Women have to tap into their inner strengths and develop their talents and passions.
Women must learn to say no and mean it, without guilt or shame. Women must come to terms with the fact that they can't make everyone happy, and it is not their collective job to nurture the world.
When women are finally fed up with the status quo, and decide that we are capable of forging our own destinies, without requiring advice or assistance from men, we will be free of the threat of violence. Men cannot hurt women if women do not give men the power to do so.
Only then will 17 year old young women be free to blaze their own trails without fear. Only then will tragedies like the vicious murder of Amandeep Atwal cease to occur.
posted by Alphamutt at 11:48 PM
11 Comments:
Amandeep's death is not in vain. The father is a pathetic racist who killed his defenseless daughter pleading for her life strapped to a seat belt, simply for loving outside of her race.
This racist nonsense should not be tolerated in Canada, and the father should not be let out after 16 years.
Amandeep was killed because she was in love with a white boy... if the boy was of Asian decent - she would be alive today.
I think we have been trained to call racisim when it only deals with whites on minorities, not the other way around.
This was a racist act - and I believe that how the Atwal family stood behind the father, even after the sentencing shows how deep the xenophobia / racisim goes.
If it was a White man, murdering his daughter for falling in love with an Asian boy, this would have been splashed on every newspaper & headline across the country - yet we seem to have let this go quietly into the back pages
Amandeep's story needs to be told - thank you for this post
Her dad was a freaky idiot...not all Indians are like this. I am of Indian descent and I married to a Black man. My parents have come to accept my decisions. Indian parents please grow up and realize you are living in America your children are going to assimilate into its culture. You dont like it then LEAVE. Stop being so narrow-minded.
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Omg are you serious..yes he is an idiot if his son is married to a white woman why does he care if the daughter loves a white man...I am sorry he is stupid and and if he is your relative I feel sorry you are related to a cold blooded monster..hope he rots in hell!
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I absolutely agree with the previous comment, if Amandeep fell in love with a caucasian guy, how is that any different with her brother falling in love with a caucasian woman?
I'm East Indian, and I think that if our parents raised us in North America, (outside of India), they should understand that we are not only going to mingle with our own culture, but a variety of different ethnic backgrounds. Afterall, Canada is a very multicultural Nation!
It definetely was a racist act!
It's not fair what happened to Amandeep.
I felt really really sad after I read about this tragic story back in 2003.
RIP Aman, xoxo
I am really sorry for amandeep but i think you people should understand every parents has dreams for their childreen. This poor father had dream too which were shatered....maybe thing could be diffrent if amandeep have spoke to her parents ealier and try to make them understand...if the bro has a white wife...i dunt think he is so cold blood father....i think he did this cos he was very angry towards the daughter who leave the house and he has to face this kinda situation.
Espero que ele apodreça
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