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This is the fruit of the example of the Prophet and Qur'an 4:34. From the Arizona Daily Star via Afgha.com, with thanks to Twostellas:
...Once again, her memories take control. Her father's selling her in marriage to a man five times her age to pay the rent; the beatings and sodomy that followed. She was 9 years old....Pekay is 13 now, one of thousands of girls and women who are trapped in forced marriages, caught between the rural, tribal and Islamic customs that ruled the country for centuries and the promise of a new Afghanistan ruled by laws that apply equally to everyone.
Domestic violence is widespread, but most cases never go to court. The laws are weak, and women stay silent out of fear or shame: Divorce disgraces the family and the tribe. Each year, scores of Afghan women escape bad marriages by setting themselves on fire or other forms of suicide....
...Under Afghanistan's civil law, it's illegal for girls younger than 16 to marry. But the Supreme Court, led by conservative clerics and Islamic law, ruled that she can't get divorced, even from a violent child molester.
Her last hope is that Fazal Hadi Shinwari, the ultra-conservative chief justice of the Supreme Court, will reverse the decision.
"If he doesn't, I'll kill myself," said Pekay, who like many Afghans uses one name. "And I'll leave it up to God to punish the judges in the next world."
"Pay or give me your daughter"
Pekay is less than 5 feet tall and slight. Her nose is puffy and crooked from a thrashing. Her left cheekbone is higher than her right, as if a bone is out of place. Her lower lip is split.
She was smaller when she met Malik Muhammad four years ago. At 48, he was old enough to be her grandfather. He offered to rent a room in his house to Pekay's family.
Four months passed, and Muhammad never asked for the rent. Pekay's father, Muhammad Omar, was too poor to remind him. One day, Muhammad demanded the rent money: $80, a princely sum.
When Omar asked if he could pay in installments, Muhammad said, "You must pay me now or give me your daughter," Omar recalled. Four days later, Muhammad started planning a wedding.
"We had no choice," said Omar. "He was a Taliban intelligence agent. He was very powerful. He said if I didn't allow the marriage, he would take us to the Taliban central office and do the wedding there."
On her wedding night, Pekay was confused. Why was the man she called "uncle" taking her to his bedroom? Why was her mother so sad?
"I'll be back soon," she recalled telling her mother.
Smiling, she stepped in. Her new husband shut the door.
"I started to hear screams," recalled her mother, Qudbi. "I thought he was going to kill her."
The next morning, Muhammad refused to let Qudbi see Pekay. He'd chained her hands and legs to his bed, said Pekay. Four days later, he evicted her parents.
Pekay lived as a slave for the next 2 1/2 years. Muhammad locked her in a room, releasing her only to cook, clean and do the washing. He pounded her with sticks and rubber tubing. When he stopped beating her, he started raping her.
"I can't tell you what happened," Pekay said. "It's the type of thing that happens only with animals."
Muhammad, now 52, denies he abused Pekay, but his next-door neighbor, Zalmay Quasimi, remembers her screams....
Fifteen months ago, Pekay's parents finally went to the police. Officers raided Muhammad's house and found Pekay and his first wife, Samar. Dried blood stained the floor and chains dangled from a bedpost, according to court documents. The police took Muhammad into custody.
But Afghanistan's legal system, a mix of civil and sharia, Islamic law, still favors men. Once Muhammad proved he was Samar's and Pekay's husband, he was released. Samar was told to go with him. Because of her age, Pekay was returned to her parents pending a court decision.
Pekay and her parents went to Kabul's family court to get a divorce. Muhammad, in court documents, called the allegations "a massive lie."
But in front of two female judges, Pekay undressed and showed the marks around her waist from the chain that Muhammed used to bind her.
The court, filled with progressive young judges, granted her a divorce. Pekay was ecstatic.
Her joy, and her freedom, soon vanished.
Muhammad appealed the decision. The appeals court ruled in his favor, as did the Supreme Court.
Pekay was ordered to return to her husband or go to jail.
Supreme Court Justice Sayeed Omar Munib explained that sharia allows a father to marry off his daughter even if she's under 16. And Pekay hadn't met the standard of evidence - two witnesses who saw the abuse or a confession from her husband.
When asked why he didn't rule according to Afghanistan's civil law, Munib replied: "In Islam and sharia, it's not like that. Women are very smooth operators. If we let her get a divorce, then women will be encouraged to divorce their husbands if they see another man they like. We'll have a lot of divorces in our society."
When asked if he believed that women and men have equal rights, as Afghanistan's constitution states, Munib replied: "It's impossible. We are Muslims, and God has given a place for men and a place for women. We can't change that. Women don't have the same brains like men. They are very forgetful. They can't make big decisions. You should ask your own Western doctors about this. It has been proven that women are not like men."...
Posted by Robert at November 17, 2004 5:39 PM
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If there is a silver lining to this nightmare, it's only that she hasn't borne any children...yet.
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at November 17, 2004 5:59 PM
"Women are very smooth operators. They might want another man they see." Considering the treatment that Muslim women are getting in such marriages, one wonders why they want ANY man! Bleeegh.
Posted by: epg at November 17, 2004 6:28 PM
This is very disgusting and disturbing...
But there is hope....
Here is the last part of the article:
Chief justice intervenes
Friends of the family got Pekay an appointment with Chief Justice Shinwari. They were educated women and now had a voice, if a faint one, in the new Afghanistan. It took them weeks, but they finally got a meeting for Pekay.
Shinwari, also a cleric, dispensed justice according to strict sharia. But he looked at Pekay's face and body, and listened to Pekay's witnesses. After considering the evidence, he approved Pekay's divorce.
Muhammad, however, is determined to get Pekay back.
"I'll die before divorcing her," he said. "I can't force her to come back to my house, but I can make sure she won't marry again. One day she'll come back. She has to."
I must say someone should beat the living shit out of this alledged 'man'....
Posted by: CrazyFool at November 17, 2004 6:35 PM
Oh how I hope there is a special place in hell for pigs like this "man". How , muslim women can you stand for this abuse? The very idea that women- who are created by G-d also- have a half brain is ridiculous.
Posted by: Carolyn2 at November 17, 2004 6:35 PM
Someone should bring this directly before President Karzai. Surely he has some kind of power to intervene?!
Posted by: Cato the Elder at November 17, 2004 6:36 PM
Stupid me for believing some Muslim apologist that I read somewhere, but I thought Muslim women could divorce their husbands...if only in theory? Muslim men just have to pronounce I divorce you three times over a certain lenght of period (varies depending the source). What recourse do women have?
Also, Iran and Afghanistan are one thing. How about in India or Indonesia?
That poor, miserable little girl. Why doesn't her family just kill him? Problem solved.
Posted by: former liberal WF at November 17, 2004 6:37 PM
Let's just say I would cook him a special dinner to celebrate if I had to return to the old devil.
Posted by: Carolyn2 at November 17, 2004 6:58 PM
There is nothing peculiar about this. Muhammad himself had sex with his 9-year-old wife Aisha when he was 54:
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/ayesha.htm
Aisha the Child Wife of Muhammad
http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=239
Allah allowes having sex with pre-puberty kids..evidence
http://www.homa.org/Details.asp?ContentID=2137352879
A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate. If he penetrates and the child is harmed then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however would not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the girl's sister. The complete Persian text of this saying is listed below.
Ayatollah Khomeini in Tahrirolvasyleh, Fourth Edition, Darol Elm, Qom
at November 17, 2004 7:02 PM
That Munib is a revolting little grub. But he reveals the mindset of the Muslim man really well. They're basically afraid of women. So they keep 'em down! With barbarity and sick depravity, if need be. Their "god" tells them how. Makes them feel oh so manly and powerful! Hatred runs all through their belief system, starting with their own. Hate their women, hate other religions, hate black people, hate freedom and rights, hate, hate, hate. It's no wonder their societies are rubbish. Their "culture" - lol! Culture of hate everything. So pathetic.
Posted by: feralee at November 17, 2004 7:09 PM
Is this kind of child molestering system of islamic laws what the americans and their allies are fighting and dying for?
If these laws that allow children to be molested in the extreme are not soon abolished forever then the wests war in Afganistan will be for nothing. The democracy we create there will just be a democracy of barbaric and inhumane thugs/voters with barbiarc attitudes ruled by barbaric laws. A democracy but, due to its laws, not in the basic sense a humane one. A brutal and inhumane democracy with barbaric laws is no better than a brutal inhumane dictatorship if the same atrocities occur with the same regularity.
Sadly even a democracy can have barbaric laws if the people so decide. The humanity of a society comes therefore from within where THEN a democracy can protect those values the best.
The people of Afganistan must become more humane in their attitudes if their democracy is to be any better than the Taliban regime. Due to islamic conservatism and fundamentalism in Afganistan will that ever happen?
at November 17, 2004 7:40 PM
That poor girl, she will be scarred for the rest of her life.....where is lorena bobbit when you need her, if anyone deserves the 'lorena treatment' it is this aleged excuse for a human.
Posted by: USAgirl at November 17, 2004 7:58 PM
Islam is the devil's religion. Questions?
Posted by: Anduril at November 17, 2004 9:19 PM
Islamic culture in full glory. This is one part of the black religion that quickly boils my blood. When the truly innocent become meat.
Makes me want to call Cathrine and start the hunt.
Posted by: blue at November 17, 2004 9:20 PM
Given enough time, blue, I think you'll get to fly over to Europe and join in the festivities.
Posted by: Anduril at November 17, 2004 9:46 PM
Yes, Obl r us,
Why on earth did we allow Afghanistan to remain Islamic?
What did all of those soldiers in Afghanistan die for?
How different is this from the Taliban?
And will Iraq be the same one day?
Posted by: Voltaire at November 17, 2004 9:46 PM
if the liberals of the world continue to play dhimmi and to sell their countries and their people to the islamic monster,this is what is going to happen to their daughters and sisters,in a new world,dominated by the crescent moon and the sharia law.
Posted by: adela at November 17, 2004 10:39 PM
I'll die before divorcing her," he said. "I can't force her to come back to my house, but I can make sure she won't marry again. One day she'll come back. She has to."
I must say someone should beat the living shit out of this alledged 'man'....
**""Alleged Man" is on target. He IS living shit.
Posted by: Kepha1 at November 17, 2004 10:48 PM
Re:
That poor girl, she will be scarred for the rest of her life.....where is lorena bobbit when you need her, if anyone deserves the 'lorena treatment' it is this aleged excuse for a human.
Q: Is cutting off a man's penis part of Islamic culture? Please verify...
at November 17, 2004 11:46 PM
Q: Is cutting off a man's penis part of Islamic culture? Please verify...
probably not, because that would be punishing a man instead of a woman....a 'man' that beats, tortures and rapes a little girl over a period of 4 years deserves nothing less IMO and I shall not apologize for that opinion. Of course they do not consider that he 'raped' this little girl as he was married to her.....
To summerize: I could not care less if hacking it off is 'islamic culture' or not....he deserves the most painful and humiliating treatment possible, he stole 4 years of that girls life, she will likely never get over the torture...to keep a child captive for a period of 4 years, rape and torture her is one of the sickest most disgusting acts I can think of and he deserves nothing less.
Additionaly he is not sorry or remorseful (not that it would matter in this case) he is in fact doing everything he can to get her back...unfortunatly it is likely that more children will suffer at his hands, but then again he is just following in the path of his beloved prophet.
Posted by: USAgirl at November 18, 2004 12:14 AM
It shows that one of the main battlefields in the war on Islamofascism is in the judiciary.
This applies both here and there.
That unelected judges can have more power than politicians that thousands even millions of people have voted for is frightening.
at November 18, 2004 3:35 AM
I think every member of this forum should take it upon themselves to e mail this story to as many journalists as possible.
especially the apologists for this beastly religion.
here are some e mail addresses.
(apologist/ignorant/liar..take your pick)
Yasmin.Alibhai-Brown@independent.co.uk
John.Daniszewski@latimes.com
jeremyhthomas@aol.com
Open to reason, knows what they are talking about.
Not afraid to tell the truth.
minette.marrin@sunday-times.co.uk
peter.hitchens@mailonsunday.co.uk
richard.littlejohn@the-sun.co.uk
please as usual no obscene language, after all we are not moslems, we can make our point without threats or vulgarity.
Also chaps please e mail this story to all the above and others you may know.
individual journo's can ignore e mails from individuals, however a group of people e mailing the same story is not so easy.
PS. i have mentioned this before, but don't remember getting a response.
does anyone think it would be a viable proposition to collect a list of e mail addresses for lets say politicians, journo/newspapers/media, apologists and automatically e mail them grusome stories about the reality of islam ?
Regards to all
AI
at November 18, 2004 9:17 AM
Sadly even a democracy can have barbaric laws if the people so decide.
The humanity of a society comes therefore from within where THEN a democracy can protect those values the best.
Posted by: obl r us at November 17, 2004 07:40 PM
It could be argued that the moral strength, and humane quality of the laws of a society is a direct result of the collective strength,.. and freedom of input of the females of that society.
As islam uses the female segments of their populations for benefit of the male,
There can be NO real change to the humane quality of the shaira law,(only differing severity of punishments.)
The male biased law system remains as long as muslim females hold no real power inside the law structure.
Therefore ,..it would seem you bring to mind an intresting point about the installation of demoracy in a muslim state.
Democracy under shaira law sounds quite insane if you say it slowly and think about the words.
at November 18, 2004 10:56 AM
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/002936.php
Posted by: AvrageJoe at November 18, 2004 11:00 AM
Sorry ,....
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/002936.php
this caused in me interest of "wtf is shaira law"? my lengthy searches led me to this
It is an evolutionary game-stopper for the human race that so many people on this planet are entrapped inside such a dead end system.
at November 18, 2004 11:07 AM
this is vile.
wonder where they get the idea from that it is ok to abuse children in this way?...
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/ayesha.htm
mahound has alot to answer for!.
Posted by: kasper1062 at November 18, 2004 6:15 PM
Ever wonder why there are so many European converts to Islam in the Phillipines? A new virgin eight year old every month of the year. Just like paradise only more expensive: canned sardines and some bags of rice.
Is there a legitimate rule of law in a nation that sanctions child molesting? What can we say when these things happen within our natins and the authorities turn a blind eye rather than offend local sensitivities? What do we do when and eight year old girl shows up at school bleeding for no obvious reason? And what do we do when we find out the obvious reason? We do nothing. We are decent citizens.
Spare me a few momeents while I convert to Satan-worship.
Posted by: sonofwalker at November 19, 2004 2:06 AM
If any of our Special Forces guys are reading this in Afghanistan, isn't there some way a couple of you could pay this "gentleman" a visit in the middle of the night some time?? Just hang him from the ceiling with the same chains he used on Pekay. Nobody has to know. Like a ghost in the night. Like mist. I know some of your predecessors (from Vietnam era) and they could do it. Time for you to shine!
WhiteWolf
Posted by: WhiteWolf at November 22, 2004 4:35 PM
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