“He brought a bottle of acid and made his wife drink it with the help of his family members.” As I wrote in my piece for PJ Lifestyle this week, a religion that sanctions the beating of disobedient women in its holy book gives rise to a culture of violence in which women are brutalized with casual frequency.
“Husband forces wife to drink acid,” from The Nation, October 21 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
SHEIKHUPURA: A man in Sheikhupura district forced his wife to drink acid after she gave birth to a babygirl, reported a private TV channel on Sunday.
According to reports , family members of the man assisted him in the heinous act against his wife. God blessed Nawazish, a resident of Jandyala Road, with a daughter but he got so upset over the birth of a daughter that he decided to punish his wife.He did not even bother to look at the newborn girl and decided. He brought a bottle of acid and made his wife drink it with the help of his family members. The neighbours took the woman to hospital where her condition is stated to be critical.