Sharia alert: this is what results from Qur’an 4:34, which sanctions wife-beating, and Islam’s easy divorce. From IRIN, with thanks to Twostellas:
NURISTAN, 24 February (IRIN) – The wooden hut of Zulaikha, a 45-year-old midwife, remains the only ray of hope for destitute women in the Nuristan valley, in northeastern Nuristan province. Dozens of women gather around Zulaikha, many of them after travelling from snow-capped mountains after a day’s journey by foot.
While some come for treatment, others have been severely beaten by their husbands or forced to leave their homes and children. Many women claim that their husbands have sent them back to their parents after coming down with tuberculosis (TB), the province’s chief health concern, or that they had become weak as a result of poor nourishment.
“My husband beat me and kicked me out after my sickness [TB] became serious,” Bibi Hawa, a 30-year-old housewife, told IRIN, after speaking with Zulaikha, the only literate woman and health worker in Kamdish and Bargmatal districts, with a population of over 100,000.
“He threw me out to take revenge on my father who had received 30 cows as a dowry for my wedding,” she exclaimed.