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In the grand tradition of high school girls rebelling against strict parents, Canadian teen Aqsa Parvez would change out of her track pants and head scarf and into tight jeans in the bathroom at Applewood Heights Secondary outside Toronto. Generally, such flagrant disregard of parental rules can get one grounded but Parvez (pictured) wasn't so lucky, and according to local police, she was strangled to death by her father, Muhammad, on Monday night. Aqsa's friends say that ever since her parents discovered that she'd been shedding her head scarf in public, she had been showing up to school with bruises on her arms. The President of the Islamic Social Services Association, Shahina Siddiqui told CNN that blaming the murder on the headscarf is an "oversimplification", adding, "Many of us who have teenagers or had teenagers know this is a very difficult time. Their hormones and emotions are raging and they are trying to assert their independence." More »
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