Public Funeral For Teenager Who Died After Refusing To Wear Hajib Cancelled

by Rob Walker | December 17, 2007 at 06:43 am

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The family decided to have their funeral in private and cancelled the public funeral. While I can understand not wanting to turn it into a spectacle, perhaps a better solution would have been to have a private funeral for the family, and a public vigil/funeral afterwards? Then the family wouldn't have to attend if they wanted to grieve in private.
Considering the son is being charged for hindering the investigation into her murder, allegedly by her father, you would think the family might want to try to show some awareness of the situation they've put themselves in.

A teenage girl whose father has been charged in her death was buried quietly on Saturday morning in Mississauga, Ont., shocking dozens of mourners who showed up for her funeral hours later, only to find out it had been cancelled.

"Everyone was so prepared to come here and see her face for one last
time, and all of a sudden they're saying it's not going to be here,"
Riana Ahmad, a friend, said outside the Islamic Centre mosque in
Mississauga, where the funeral had been scheduled to take place.

"They shouldn't do that," another mourner, Babithiraa Thevathasan,
added. "She's gone, you can't do that. You should let everyone see her
no matter what."