No, studying psychology at the in Ontario, Canada.
Where might this have taken place: Nigeria, Yemen or Afghanistan? (June 27, 2021)Ĭhristian man converts to Islam to marry a Muslim woman whose face he had never seen despite their knowing each other for 4 years. Husband murdered by second wife to prevent his taking a third wife: Polyandry implies disgruntled wives sometimes, they take matters into their own hands, as happened in India to an Islamic teacher when his wife castrated him, leading to his death. Me: Difficult to absorb such appalling, inhumane behavior. Then they dumped her body in a garbage container.
Her parents responded by murdering the girl "in cold blood." An unknown assailant raped a five-year-old girl. I have made sure only to include instances in this weblog entry that represent a general outlook, and not just a single person's idiosyncrasy, anecdotes that reflect the Shari'a or societal consensus, not deviants and outcasts.įive-year-old girl honor killed by her parents: Here are some examples of customs and social attitudes from the Muslim side of the divide (in reverse chronological order) that have me, for one, shaking my head. (The term termagant sums up the surprising way Westerners saw Muslim women before the seventeenth century.)
Each side has a long history of looking at the other's sexual mores with a mixture of astonishment and disgust. The deepest differences between Muslims and Westerners concern not politics but sexuality.
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