As far as Islamic law is concerned, Ameen Thabet was perfectly within his rights to want to take a second wife without divorcing the first. “And if you fear that you will not deal fairly by the orphans, marry the women who seem good to you, two or three or four, and if you fear that you cannot do justice, then one, or those that your right hands possess. In this way it is more likely that you will not do injustice.” (Qur’an 4:3)
Islamic does not allow a man to kill his wife, but while domestic violence in all cultures, but only in one does it have divine sanction. In such a context, it is all too easy to go too far. The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” — Qur’an 4:34
Muhammad’s child bride, Aisha, says in a hadith that Muhammad “struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: ‘Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?’” — Sahih Muslim 2127
An another hadith states: “Rifa`a divorced his wife whereupon `AbdurRahman bin Az-Zubair Al-Qurazi married her. `Aisha said that the lady (came), wearing a green veil (and complained to her (Aisha) of her husband and showed her a green spot on her skin caused by beating). It was the habit of ladies to support each other, so when Allah’s Messenger came, Aisha said, ‘I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women. Look! Her skin is greener than her clothes!’” — Sahih Bukhari 7.77.5825
“‘Cold and calculated’ businessman, 50, is jailed for life for strangling his secret second wife to death after she demanded he leave his first wife for her,” by Jack Wright, MailOnline, March 18, 2021:
A ‘cold and calculated’ businessman who strangled his ‘secret’ second wife to death in her own home and then staged it as a burglary was today jailed for life.
Ameen Thabet, 50, choked his 47-year-old partner Najeeba Al-Ariqy, originally from Yemen, at her address in Aston, Birmingham on March 23 of last year after she asked him to divorce his first wife, the court heard.
Thabet, who runs Linton Metals in Sparkbrook, was convicted of murder by a jury at Birmingham Crown Court yesterday. He must remain in jail for a minimum of 18 years before being considered for release.
Sentencing, Judge Melbourne Inman QC called the killing ‘determined’ and ‘sustained’, and reprimanded Thabet for ‘creating a false trail to cover your crime’.
The court heard that Thabet was already married when he struck up a relationship with Mrs Al-Ariqy and decided to take her as his second wife – as permitted in Islam.
They had a small marriage ceremony, referred to as a Nikkah, in her home in 2019, but Thabet kept it a secret from his first wife.
The relationship between the defendant and Mrs Al-Ariqy was turbulent, the court heard. They separated twice that year, agreeing to probation or ‘cooling off’ periods away from each other for a number of weeks.
By early 2020 she agreed to reconcile with Thabet again but on condition that he leave his first wife and publicly marry in a ceremony due to take place that April.
It was also said that another man, from Bahrain, was seeking to marry Mrs Al-Ariqy in what was called a ‘seriously complicating factor’.
But their relationship appeared to go awry again a few days before she died, when doubts emerged over whether Thabet’s mother gave her blessing to the union.
Thabet had been at the property around midday before leaving and returning later that evening, when he then reported her death to emergency services at 6pm.
The 50-year-old from Smethwick, West Midlands, was initially treated as a witness before police arrested and charged him with murder.
Judge Inman QC said: ‘Najeeba was a well-liked, responsible and loving person who did what she could to bring happiness to others….
‘Najeeba made it clear she would not marry you again unless you were able to divorce your wife. You then strangled Najeeba either with an arm lock or a ligature….
‘This was a determined killing and you strangled her until you were sure she would die. This was sustained violence and her suffering, knowing what was being done to her, must have been very real indeed.
‘This was not a sudden loss of temper. Your actions were cold and calculated and you set about creating a false trail to cover your crime.’…
Jayell says
Yet another muslim clogging up the UK’s jails for years on end at the cost of £40k-50K a year to the tax payer, plus special privileges, only because he is apparently congenitally incapable of behaving like a civilised human being. Even worse. once inducted into one of Her Majesty’s hostels, he will no doubt discover that he will be enjoying the company of possibly hundreds of his ‘pious’ fellow-thugs who will simply confirm him in his ‘faith’ and turn him into an even bigger menace to society when he is deemed suitable for release far too soon for the comfort of authentic UK citizens who will be expected to tolerate roaming free on the streets him for some unknown reason. Then, of course, he will be demanding his welfare benefits and anything else to keep him in the style to which he has become accustomed until he commits his next atrocity – which, of course, would hardly be an ‘atrocity’ in his eyes but simply another exercising of the privileges of the Allah-given superiority granted to true disciples of the ‘Religion of Peace’. The benefits of diversity, we are told, as I will remember when I look at the next tax demand from the Inland Revenue.
Oldone says
Couldn’t have said it better, myself…
CogitoErgoSum says
He killed another human being by strangulating her. His punishment should be to be hung by the neck until all life has left his body. As he judged so should he be judged and the same amount of mercy that he granted to his victim should be granted to him – which is to say: none. He should be given the chance to prepare his soul for a meeting with God and then be executed.
Jayell says
This specimen shouldn’t be going anywhere near God. He should be taking a trip downstairs to meet his particular Deity’s alter ego with the cloven feet in the Universe’s eternal boiler room.
Keith O says
Yup, and this is why the death penalty should be brought back.
A one off cost to the tax payer of the cost of a single bullet instead of 40-50k per year.
origaminapkin says
The marriage is illegal. Doctrine of Islam does not allow to marry a second time without the permission of the first wife. This is always hidden. Another burden on the tax payer.
mortimer says
The marriage is legal under Sharia which trumps secular legislation.
mortimer says
ON, I don’t know where you get your info. A Muslim doesn’t need permission to marry other women or to make a secret ‘temporary marriage’ for pleasure.
Jayell says
In the civilised world, marriage is the legal union of one male and one female to provide support for each other and the children they produce. In the muslim world it’s just a licence for a man to fornicate as much as he wants with as many as he wants for as long or short as the mood takes him. Even most animals have a greater moral sense than that. Absolutely filthy and disgusting!!
gravenimage says
Doctrine of Islam does not allow to marry a second time without the permission of the first wife.
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This is utter claptrap. Most Islamic polygamous marriages are done without the permission of previous wives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWnmdAFSpuo&ab_channel=Alislam
This is the famous and influential Zakir Naik.
And Islam Q&A, the miost influential and widely read Islamic site in English, also confirms that Muslims don’t need the permission of any of their existing wives.
https://islamqa.info/en/answers/12544/the-first-wifes-approval-is-not-a-condition-for-marrying-a-second-wife
The “Prophet” Muhammed several times married his captives while on Jihad–he didn’tr ask amy of his wives–who were not even there–for permission.
serialthinker2003 says
“Islamic does not allow a man to kill his wife, but while domestic violence in all cultures, but only in one do…..”
That’s wrong, In the Saudi Penal System of Muhammad Zaki Al-Shunnaq 2017, page 192 says verbatim :
the case : If one of his wife was beaten, which led to the destruction of one of her organs, then she died
” No penalty for husband According to the opinion of the imams Ibn Malik and Al Shafei, And it is not guaranteed (to pay) because it was discipline ”
beating women is also an act of worship that the Qur’anic exegesis interpreters unanimously encouraged to do, so it’s not legal in one case If the aim of the beating was something other than discipline. Sometimes the victim’s relatives(men) have to be paid if they want, And if they are accomplices, there is nothing wrong, A woman is a private, sold sexual property that has a price, And if she dies, the males must be compensated financially, For example, if your cow threw my cow, of course the judge will not sentence the cow to death, just simple compensation and settling disputes ..
gravenimage says
Grimly true. And even in parts of Dar-al-Islam where this is not codified, there is seldom much punishment for “Honor Killings”.
tim gallagher says
Yet another evil, totally inhuman monster. Islam produces a seemingly endless supply of these types of monsters. Throw in all the Muslim members of those rape gangs, all the satanically evil Muslim terrorists and it truly seems that islam, this disgusting, primitive and barbaric ideology, produces people that no even half civilised society should let anywhere near them. Islam doesn’t produce much in the way of noble, life affirming human endeavours (after all music and visual arts, etc, are all frowned on by nihilistic Islam), but it surely does produce a huge number of evil monsters. That’s about all islam does produce. I suppose when you start with such a low life character as Muhammad, and have such low ideals as Islam does, you are bound to aim very low and are bound to rejoice in doing evil.
Walter Sieruk says
There are two actural “reasons” that Muslim man murdered his second wife. First, is because Islam is a religion of brutal malicious murderous misogyny. The second “reason” is related to the first “reason”, which is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
gravenimage says
Her daring to express an opinion–especially demanding that he do something–was a major factor.
gravenimage says
UK: Muslim strangles his secret second wife to death after she demands he leave his first wife
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Just horrifying, but no surprise.
And the idea that “dealing justly” with multiple wives can include murdering some of them is especially horrific–but since wife beating and “Honor Killing” are core parts of Muslims dealing with women, this should be expected.
Hudson says
This is just a cultural misunderstanding. Unsupervised probation should rectify this type of minor infraction. Anything more severe would be furthering Islamophobia.