Posted on 05/24/2018 9:08:41 AM PDT by Simon Green
What do we know about Noura Hussein?
The 19-year-old Sudanese woman is currently on death row in Omdurman, Sudan, for killing a man in self-defense. She was convicted of murdering her husband, who raped her on their “honeymoon.”
When she was 16, Noura’s family attempted to force her to marry a man, despite the fact that Islam prohibits marriage without consent. Refusing the marriage, she ran 155 miles away from her family home to a town called Sennar. She lived with her aunt for three years, determined to complete her high school education and with her eyes on further studies. In 2017, she received word that the wedding plans had been cancelled and that she was safe to return home.
It was a cruel trick. On her return, Noura found the wedding ceremony underway and was given away to the same groom she had rejected three years earlier.
Defiant, Noura refused to consummate the wedding for a number of days. Her husband became increasingly aggressive, and before the week was over, forced himself onto his teenage wife. With the help of his two brothers and a cousin who held her down, her husband raped her.
When he returned the next day to attempt to rape her again, Noura escaped to the kitchen and grabbed a knife. In the altercation that followed, the man sustained fatal knife wounds. Noura went to her family; they disowned her and turned her over to the police. She was held in Omdurman jail until April 29, 2018, when she was found guilty of premeditated murder. On May 10, the man’s family was offered a choice: accept monetary compensation for the injury caused, or the death penalty. The family chose to sentence Noura to death. Noura’s legal team has until May 25 to submit an appeal.
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So then, the Mahr is Islam’s version of the Dowry.
Only one step removed from the outright “selling” of your daughter to the highest bidder, similar to selling livestock or slaves.
Empowering women like good progressives.
In strict Islamic societies, women have little economic value, other than as wives. Hence the practice of child marriage: the younger the girl gets married, the sooner the parents can stop feeding her and let the husband support her.
This also explains the practice of honor killing. A non-virgin becomes economically valueless, so might as well kill her.
Sounds just like the Islam I know.
Riding roughshod over American men and boys.
*slam is a cancer on the Earth.
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