The Jawa Report: Why Don’t You Die?:
Why Don’t You Die?
That was the question this young lady’s Father-In-Law asked her. Eleven year old Gulsoma is tougher than the culture that traded her as a four year old bride.…
“They beat me with electric wires,” she says, “mostly on the legs. My father-in-law told his other children to do it that way so the injuries would be hidden. He said to them, ‘break her bones, but don’t hit her on the face.'”
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Too often the abusers quote to teachings of Islam as where they determined that women are property subject to men. Once you view another human being as a piece of property, it’s a very short trip to the kind of treatment poor Gulsoma suffered.