Connubial acid-throwing
Nice.
The ordeal of ill-fated Irshad Bibi, who suffered burns in an acid attack by her husband, seems far from over despite generous offer by an NGO as her very own people blocked her way to accept the help and go for the treatment…[H]er family and relatives stopped her from going to Islamabad for treatment at the expense of the NGO on the plea that “such organisations have the reputation of committing immoral activities and they will use her also for their nefarious designs”…A resident of the area to which the victim belonged defended the family’s stance, saying: “The NGOs are involved in un-Islamic activities and it is a sinful act to get treatment from them”.
Therefore, Irshad Bibi should simply be left untreated. Good thinking.
[Irshad Bibi] said Mukhtar Mai had telephoned her and expressed sympathy with her. “I am very thankful to her. I am also thankful to the media and the NGO which has extended me help”. Sobbing out her ordeal, Irshad Bibi said she wanted to visit her parents and asked her husband, Ajmal, to send her to their place. “Ajmal, however, stopped me saying he will give me good news and at night he came and repeated that he had a big surprise for me. The next moment he threw acid on my face and dragged me to a room from where he fled”…She said when she cried out for help, one of the neighbours telephoned her parents and her father reached the house after two hours, broke open the lock and took her to Sanwan hospital.
So her lovely husband not only threw acid in her face, he also locked her in afterwards. Now that’s what I cal uxorious.
Irshad said her husband would routinely beat her and whenever she spoke to her parents about her domestic life they placated her by saying that “a married woman has to live and die at her husband’s house”. She said her hand was given to her husband in ‘watta satta’.
Right. This is the arrangement. A married woman has to live and die at her husband’s house, having been given to the husband by other people with no right of refusal for herself. That’s a fair arrangement. It kind of reminds me of something else…now what is it…it’s right on the tip of my tongue…come on, think…oh yes: slavery.
Connubially speaking, I hope this man gets his just desserts. I hope too that Irshad Bibi, who says, “After recovering I’ll plead my case and get him (the husband) penalised through court” wins her case and sets a precedent for others in her situation. Her ‘watta satta’ savage inhumane, decrepit husband who said that he would give her good news and also that he had for her a big surprise, then without further ado threw acid on her face should be dealt with very severely by the courts. I hope he rots in jail, the creep.
This world needs people like you, OB, to voice the concerns of the voiceless.
Just give me 5 minuites alone with this piece of garbage!
“‘ss’ should have been ‘s’ in deserts.” Mind you, Ajmal, who repeatedly beat Irshad and dragged her to a room and locked her in, is also very deserving of the SS attachment to his name. Irshad said her hand was given to her husband in ‘watta satta’. I say, his hand was given to her in whacking bashing every day of her life.
You can’t beat up misogyny, Richard.
dzd you may be right but 5 minuites spent with this guy might at least make him think twice before throwing acid in his wifes face again! this scum is a coward who picks on women,give him a beating with the promise of more and he will learn!and as for this poor girls parents they need horse whiping in the town square.
Richard,
That’s an admirable human response, but this is not an issue that can be addressed by a fantasy of the Decent Chap striding to the rescue and felling the Utter Bounder with a swift right cross.
‘…as for this poor girls parents they need horse whiping in the town square.’
You know as well as I do what side the town square would take.
This level of brutal misogyny is very widespread. Chances are you know someone who sees inflicting physical pain on their partner as a legitimate entitlement. I wish there were short-cuts and easy answers, but there aren’t.
“Chances are you know someone who sees inflicting physical pain on their partner as a legitimate entitlement.”
This is one of those places where the gender-blind ‘their’ following ‘someone’ is out of place, especially given that it follows a sentence about misogyny.
Chances are you know someone who sees inflicting physical pain on his partner as a legitimate entitlement.
Point taken; but, hey, it took me a big chunk of the 1970’s to even get the concept of gender-blind. You mean it’s changed?
(appropriate smiley face)
Don. What Would you sugest? that the s.o.b get some anger management counceling?
We should invade ! Er, hang on…
Don. they seem like worthy solutions but could they work in a moslem nation where mysogeny is preached as the word of god?
Richard,
Probably not in my lifetime. But a more useful approach than a satisfying fantasy of fixing it on a case by case basis.
If I may make a personal comment, you strike as basically a ‘good guy’ but you seem to be looking for quick fixes, easy answers and an immediately identifiable ‘Big Bad’.
That’s not how it works. An inch here, an ounce there.
You are probably right Don,I guess that my real fear is that this stuff will be comming here,I am just waiting for acid atacks to show up in Bradford or London!