Husband Hacks Off Child Bride’s Nose, All Because Of Her One Request

Dom the Conservative On International Women’s Day, a Muslim man tied his teen bride to a tree in a nearby field, chopped off her hair, and gruesomely hacked off her nose. When she was found unconscious, she told police that her grisly fate was all because of one thing she requested from her husband.

As the Islamic world gains attention from international media, the horrors of honor killings and attacks are no longer a far-off, unheralded plight. Brought to the forefront, we are confronted with the uncomfortable misogyny of a 1,400-year-old ideological practice. Pair this with the widely Islamic issue of child marriage, and we have the perfect recipe for the most horrific child abuse imaginable.

The Daily Capital reports that a child bride was discovered unconscious and bloody in an abandoned field in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan on March 8. Tayyab, 17, was bound to a tree before her enraged husband chopped off her hair and nose to spite her — but it was the reason she gave authorities that make it all the more sickening.

According to officials, the wife, a girl still in her childhood, missed her parents and wanted to go visit them. Her husband found this to be dishonorable, which prompted him to exact gruesome revenge upon his young spouse.

Police are hunting for the man who reportedly dragged Tayyab to a local pasture, tied her to a tree so she couldn’t defend herself or escape, and forced her to endure the excruciating pain of having her face mutilated.

Like Tayyab, 16-year-old Nazia made international headlines when her 40-year-old Muslim husband chopped off her nose, shaved her head, and burned her feet with boiling water.

Reza Gul, 20, was married to her 25-year-old husband for 5 years before he cut off her nose and fled.

The Express Tribune reports that Tayyab had been living with her parents for the past four or five months because of previous domestic disputes between the couple. However, the girl was forced by her husband to return to his home on Tuesday. Because the husband is in charge of his wives as if they are his property, the man was legally allowed to bring his child bride home against her will. Unfortunately, this would be her last week before being grotesquely maimed.

Because attacks like Tayyab’s are on the rise, Pakistan has proposed a bill that would allow women to submit complaints about domestic violence in the home, granting them protection orders from abusive husbands. However, this will most likely be rejected or even ignored if passed, as it would be considered un-Islamic to issue such legislation.

The Quran is very clear on the rights of Muslim women, much less non-Muslim ones. In just two sentences, the Islamic Prophet Muhammad sealed women’s fate, causing them to legally and religiously be identified as property.

Men are in charge of women by [right of] what Allah has given one over the other and what they spend [for maintenance] from their wealth. So righteous women are devoutly obedient, guarding in [the husband’s] absence what Allah would have them guard. [Quran 4:34]

Of course, the next half of the scripture advises “property managers” on what to do if their wives attempt to rise above their instructed position.

But those [wives] from whom you fear arrogance – [first] advise them; [then if they persist], forsake them in bed; and [finally], strike them. But if they obey you [once more], seek no means against them. Indeed, Allah is ever Exalted and Grand. [Quran 4:34]

The Quran directly orders men to beat their wives, proving that any Islamic country that attempts to protect women from domestic abuse is refuting their prophet’s teaching. Still, the only way to elicit these nations to give women basic human rights is through international outrage. Outcry from foreign voices has resulted in progress in these Sharia-governed lands, and with the protest of these fed-up women, perhaps it is possible to oust fundamentals of this barbaric ideology.

H/T [The Religion Of Peace]
Photo Credit [Sharia Unveiled, Nigeria News Watch]