[National Post-Canada] Katie Rook and Amy Smithers - Aqsa Parvez, 16, was a well-liked Muslim girl in Mississauga, near Toronto, who, classmates say, decided to go without the Islamic head scarf in September, a change which some members of her family had difficulty accepting. Following Aqsa's death on Dec. 10, her father, Muhammad Parvez, was charged with murder. Dressing in one manner at home and another at school is one way young Muslim girls in Canada are negotiating competing cultural demands, says Jasmin Zine, a sociology professor at Wilfrid Laurier University.
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