Posted on 01/21/2016 4:17:42 AM PST by HomerBohn
Islam tells men to beat women from whom they fear disobedience (Quran 4:34). It allows for polygamy. It allows for child marriage, since Muhammad married Aisha when she was six years old and consummated the marriage when she was nine. All those evils come together in the tragic story of Reza Gul.
"Afghan Woman's Nose Is Cut Off by Her Husband, Officials Say," by David Jolly and Ahmad Shakib, Kemsat.com,
January 19, 2016: KABUL, Afghanistan -- A young woman has been hospitalized in northern Afghanistan and is hoping to travel to Turkey for reconstructive surgery after her husband cut off her nose, the police and the woman's family said on Tuesday.
The woman, Reza Gul, 20, was attacked by her husband with a knife on Sunday in Shar-Shar, a village in an impoverished and Taliban-controlled part of Faryab Province. Reza Gul was in stable condition on Tuesday in a hospital in Maimana, the provincial capital, according to a spokesman for the Faryab police, Sayed Massoud Yaqubi. Maroof Samar, a doctor who is the acting director of public health in Faryab, said Reza Gul had been in "very critical condition when she was brought in, she had lost much blood."
Throughout the six years Reza Gul and her husband, Muhammad Khan, 25, had been married, he and his family members had regularly abused her, beating her and binding her in chains, said Reza Gul's mother, Zarghona. Mr. Khan regularly went to Iran for work, returned for a few months during which he abused his wife, then left her with his family members, she said. "This infidel cut off my daughter's nose," Zarghona said. "If I catch him, I'll tear him to pieces."
Though Reza Gul brought her severed nose to the hospital, the facility was not equipped to handle the complicated surgery needed to reattach it. Dr. Samar said the governor of Faryab had enlisted the Turkish Embassy in Kabul to help arrange travel to Turkey for surgery and treatment.
Reza Gul received a national identity card on Tuesday, he said, which she will use to apply for a passport to get to Turkey as soon as possible. Her plight has again brought attention to endemic violence against women in Afghanistan, which the United Nations Development Program rated one of the worst countries in the world to be born female.
On Sunday afternoon, Zarghona said, Reza Gul and Mr. Khan got into an argument over his having taken his uncle's 6- or 7-year-old daughter as his fiancée, with the intention of making her his second wife this year. During the dispute, Mr. Khan erupted into a rage, took a knife and cut off his wife's nose, said Zarghona, who goes by a single name.
Mr. Khan and one of his brothers then threw Reza Gul on the back of a motorcycle with the intention of taking her away to kill her, Zarghona said. But news of the attack spread quickly in the village, causing an uproar, and Mr. Khan fled for his life.
"I went to the Taliban," Zarghona said. "I asked them: 'Is this the Islam we are following? My daughter's nose chopped off? But you are doing nothing about it. I want justice.'" "They got really angry and now they are searching for the boy," she said. "I hope they find him before the police do."
Mr. Yaqubi, the police official, said the authorities had heard that "the Taliban has already arrested Muhammad Khan, and he is presently in their custody." "We don't know what they plan to do with him, but we will follow the case and bring him to justice."
Paging Lorena Bobbitt....
Thanks for pointing out that this poor woman was already married at 14 years. She has had a lousy life so far, and will probably never have a moment’s happiness on earth.
Well that’s islam for you she is worth less than a goat, besides what is the big deal he could have under Sharia cut off her head.
The progressive liberal would have to agree; after all islam is a religion of peace.
You can tell I wrote those comments in one helluva hurry.
Anybody who wants to admit these people, and that includes numerous Republicans, among them Jeb B. and M. Rubio, wants only to harm this country.
They are taught not to think for themselves, no personal responsibly, misogyny, self righteous smugness so long as it is quoranic, and this is what you get.
Izzy — LOL to your post! (not to this loathsome act by a depraved individual).
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