'I've got a surprise for you': Husband blindfolds his wife.... and then chops off her fingers to stop her studying for a degree

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

According to UNESCO's 2009 "Global Education Digest," which compares education statistics around the world:

Today, male and female enrolment ratios in the Arab States are almost identical, indicating gender parity. Yet, if trends continue, women will soon take the lead in that region as well.

More highlights from the same report:

* 13 Muslim majority countries produce a higher percentage of female science graduates than the U.S.

* In Bahrain and Qatar, female university graduates outnumber males by 2-to-1.

* Women outnumber men among university graduates in Tunisia.

http://www.uis.unesco.org/Library/Documents/ged09-en.pdf

Yet, inexplicably, there are no cases of finger-chopping husbands except this one dude in Bangladesh.

But who cares - no need to let minor details like silly little facts get in the way of good Islamophobia spam.

[Darnell 8,479]

Islamophobia spam. Finally, an accurate label. Thanks !

[HeatDeath 430]

I have to disagree.

While there are crazy people who commit crazy crimes in every religion and even outside of any religion as the examples prove, this particular case is about religious extremism. The husband did not mutilate his wife because she was guilty of adultery, but because she wanted to learn, become an equal to a man. The closest thing to such a restraint would be the Amish who believe that education beyond the 8th grade serves no purpose. But no Amish would cut off somebody's fingers for trying to get a higher education, no Christian, no Jew, no Buddhist and no Hindu. This particular crime was based on Islamic doctrine, and while it would not be fair to point fingers to all Muslims because of the actions of one person, it is fair to say that without the husband's Islamic faith, this atrocity would not have happened.

I've never heard of Amish barbarians, and I don't have a good mental model of how Jewish barbarians would respond in an analagous situation, but you're only half right on the others. Christian barbarians tend more to use their fists, and Hindu and Buddhist barbarians tend to prefer setting people on fire to cutting off their extremities. Different kinds of barbarians prefer different flavours of violence, but most faith traditions have their barbarians, and it is the sacred obligation of civilized peoples of all faiths to fight their respective barbarians wherever they are found.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

I have to disagree.

While there are crazy people who commit crazy crimes in every religion and even outside of any religion as the examples prove, this particular case is about religious extremism. The husband did not mutilate his wife because she was guilty of adultery, but because she wanted to learn, become an equal to a man. The closest thing to such a restraint would be the Amish who believe that education beyond the 8th grade serves no purpose. But no Amish would cut off somebody's fingers for trying to get a higher education, no Christian, no Jew, no Buddhist and no Hindu. This particular crime was based on Islamic doctrine, and while it would not be fair to point fingers to all Muslims because of the actions of one person, it is fair to say that without the husband's Islamic faith, this atrocity would not have happened.

This has nothing to do with religion. You're just baiting and you know it.

[^_^ 5,021]

... no Amish would cut off somebody's fingers for trying to get a higher education, no Christian, no Jew, no Buddhist and no Hindu.

Have you ever heard of Eklavya?

[Max1gk 68]

This has nothing to do with religion. You're just baiting and you know it.

That has to do A LOT with religion, as every irrational and ILLOGICAL belief, It leads humans to do stupid things. It's just as simple as that..so simple yet most deluded mind can't grasp that. I see one here

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

I like to thank all of you for your thoughtful responses. So let me ask this question: is it your opinion that this man's religious beliefs had nothing to do with his actions to cut off his wife's fingers? He did not believe that a woman should not try to get an education, but instead be subservient to her husband? So the guy could have as well been a Protestant from Norway or the Netherlands?

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

I like to thank all of you for your thoughtful responses. So let me ask this question: is it your opinion that this man's religious beliefs had nothing to do with his actions to cut off his wife's fingers? He did not believe that a woman should not try to get an education, but instead be subservient to her husband? So the guy could have as well been a Protestant from Norway or the Netherlands?

You know us crazy Lutherans. When we aren't throwing acid and/or gang raping our wives, were cutting off their fingers. Next week were going to try out honor killings...someone said my sister made eyes with a Catholic while she was out in public without a male family member to escort her. For shame!

[HeatDeath 430]

I like to thank all of you for your thoughtful responses. So let me ask this question: is it your opinion that this man's religious beliefs had nothing to do with his actions to cut off his wife's fingers? He did not believe that a woman should not try to get an education, but instead be subservient to her husband? So the guy could have as well been a Protestant from Norway or the Netherlands?

Protestant from Norway or the Netherlands: fairly unlikely.

Protestant from Alabama or Mississippi: sad to say, it wouldn't shock me.

There are evil savages, barbarians in every sense of the word, who believe themselves (grossly incorrectly!) to be Christians, and label themselves accordingly. Not so many in some parts of the world as others, but every religion has some.

[SuperDuper! 230]

Things are getting WEIRD here. Just asking the OP: Is this a Muslim thing or a Christian thing?

[HeatDeath 430]

The unifying characteristic of the barbarians is the belief, universally held regardless of professed creed, that they themselves are entitled, or even in some cases required, to adjudicate, pass sentence, and carry out corporal or capital punishment against misbehaving people (women, in the vast majority of cases), in the complete absence of the legal and juridical infrastructure mandated by their professed religion, on their own, in the shadows, regardless of the actual teachings of the actual religious leaders of the actual religious community in which they live, and regardless of the actual laws of the nation-state in which they live.

Barbarians start with the desire to kill or maim, and believe their personal interpretation of their faith entitles them to do so, regardless of what anyone else in their local or larger national community, even the vast majority of their coreligionists, would think. They are murderous sociopaths, using their professed creed to justify following their violent impulses.

This form of psychopathic barbarism is distinct, in that it is not simply an expression of a community with regressive laws dispensing justice through well defined public institutions. A community that convicts a person of adultery in a public trial, and passes and carries out a corporal sentence, even a capital sentence, may well be abhorrent to our [or other's] community, but it is not being barbarous, per se. Barbarism is a particular mental poison that causes its bearers to confuse a sordid murder in a dark alley, with the solemn, though necessary application of capital punishment. Civilized communities may carry out corporal or capital punishment, but their civilization is defined by the openness , transparency, and solemnity with which they carry it out.

Civilized communities do their executions or floggings solemnly, in the town square, after a public trial in which justice is sincerely attempted to be done. Barbarians murder and maim privately, in the dark, and will never understand why this distinction matters.

[EAbbas 213]

This is a Christian man who married a christian woman.. this is a person i know personally... her husband didnt want her doing anything that may allow her some individuality... and painting? omg no way it was just too much of her time, of her energy, of her own personality coming thru for him to accept...she's a beautiful artist and thank God she's still alive.

http://www.journalpatriot.com/news/article_6e4a0f44-4108-11e0-950d-0017a4a78c22.html

Just saying that these men are everywhere... every corner of the world... some aren't as bad as others,(my ex was verbally and emotionally abusive with a distorted sense of what intimacy was) some are downright crazy but its everywhere!

Edited December 21, 2011 by EAbbas