For Some Muslim Wives, Abuse Knows No Borders - washingtonpost.com

[groovychk]

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For Some Muslim Wives, Abuse Knows No Borders - washingtonpost.com
“I was perfectly happy living alone, but the family kept pushing me to marry. I wanted to show them I was a good Muslim girl,” said Shireen, now 37 and divorced. When her husband became abusive, she said, relatives told her to be a better wife. When she took him to court, she said, “everyone abandoned me. I was the one who had done something wrong.”

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A lot of the time nowadays I can’t believe we’re actually living in the 21st Century. Not only do we not have flying cars and plentiful, clean energy - but we also have to continue acting like primitive, tribal screw-heads living and dying by books written over a thousand years ago. Sigh.

Comments

[aimingforpeace.livejournal.com]

Families giving women shit over leaving their abusive husbands is not limited to the Muslim community at all. Very common in Christian households as well.

[groovychk.livejournal.com]

Yeah. At least you can escape without your entire culture jumping on your butt though. Still - that's part of the whole living and dying by very old books :-)

[aimingforpeace.livejournal.com]

We oughtta write a whole new book!

Instead of commandments, we can have pickup lines.

[groovychk.livejournal.com]

Now there's an idea :-)