ABC/AP:
KABUL, Afghanistan - March 15, 2007 - One woman committed suicide by setting herself ablaze after her father-in-law tried to rape her.
Another set herself on fire because her brothers would not let her marry, preferring that she remain their servant at home.
Yet another told her mother before she died that her husband beat her daily.
Testimony gathered by the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission documents how life for many Afghan women remains so bleak that some choose a horrific and painful death instead.
The group interviewed about 800 Afghans whose sisters, daughters and daughters-in-law have killed themselves by self-immolation to escape domestic abuse, forced marriage and other misogynistic social customs.
The report and anecdotal evidence from other rights workers suggests the phenomenon is growing, with desperate women sometimes mimicking what they have seen reported on TV. "It's really a big problem in Afghanistan," said Nabila Wafiq, who has researched the issue for the aid group Medica Mondiale, which has interviewed women who survived their self-immolation attempts.
THERE'S MORE...
THIS IS NOT AN AFGHAN OR INTRA-CULTURAL PROBLEM WHICH WE CAN IGNORE. THESE WOMEN ARE HAVING THEIR UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS TRAMPLED ON BY THEIR OWN FAMILIES - IN THE NAME OF ISLAM.
UNTIL ISLAM GETS RID OF ITS MISOGYNY, THE WEST WILL BE ATTACKED BY JIHADOTERROR - BECAUSE A CULTURE WHICH INCULCATES MISOGYNISM TO THE POINT OF ALLOWING TERROR ON ITS OWN DAUGHTERS AND WIVES, WILL OF COURSE TOLERATE OR EVEN DEMAND TERROR AGAINST INFIDELS.
IT IS TIME WE ACTED TO END THIS BARBARISM. ONCE AND FOR ALL TIME.
TO SAVE WOMEN FROM THE SYSTEMIC HORRORS WHICH DRIVE THEM TO SELF-IMMOLATION, AND TO SAVE OURSELVES FROM THE ISLAMIC MEN WHO TEACH THIS MISOGYNY TO THEIR SONS, WE MUST TAKE BOLD ACTIONS.
WE NEED ANOTHER WILBERFORCE - ONE WHO WILL SPEARHEAD AN INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO ABOLISH ISLAMO-MISOGYNY.
(PERHAPS AYAAN ALI HIRSI OR WAFA SULTAN WILL EMERGE AS THIS ERA'S FREDERICK DOUGLAS, CHAMPIONING THE RIGHTS OF ISLAMIC WOMEN AND HELPING TO TEAR DOWN THE FILTHY IDEOLOGY WHICH ENSLAVES THEM, AND TERRORIZES THEM, AND DRIVES THEM TO COMMIT SUICIDE.)
MORE HERE. (AND HERE.)
(MORE ON ISLAMIC WOMEN BEING FORCED TO COMMIT SUICIDE TO "SAVE THE FAMILY'S HONOR" - AND TO PERPETUATE ISLAMO-MISOGYNY - HERE.)
UNTIL ISLAM GETS RID OF ITS MISOGYNY, THE WEST WILL BE ATTACKED BY JIHADOTERROR - BECAUSE A CULTURE WHICH INCULCATES MISOGYNISM TO THE POINT OF ALLOWING TERROR ON ITS OWN DAUGHTERS AND WIVES, WILL OF COURSE TOLERATE OR EVEN DEMAND TERROR AGAINST INFIDELS.
IT IS TIME WE ACTED TO END THIS BARBARISM. ONCE AND FOR ALL TIME.
TO SAVE WOMEN FROM THE SYSTEMIC HORRORS WHICH DRIVE THEM TO SELF-IMMOLATION, AND TO SAVE OURSELVES FROM THE ISLAMIC MEN WHO TEACH THIS MISOGYNY TO THEIR SONS, WE MUST TAKE BOLD ACTIONS.
WE NEED ANOTHER WILBERFORCE - ONE WHO WILL SPEARHEAD AN INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO ABOLISH ISLAMO-MISOGYNY.
(PERHAPS AYAAN ALI HIRSI OR WAFA SULTAN WILL EMERGE AS THIS ERA'S FREDERICK DOUGLAS, CHAMPIONING THE RIGHTS OF ISLAMIC WOMEN AND HELPING TO TEAR DOWN THE FILTHY IDEOLOGY WHICH ENSLAVES THEM, AND TERRORIZES THEM, AND DRIVES THEM TO COMMIT SUICIDE.)
MORE HERE. (AND HERE.)
(MORE ON ISLAMIC WOMEN BEING FORCED TO COMMIT SUICIDE TO "SAVE THE FAMILY'S HONOR" - AND TO PERPETUATE ISLAMO-MISOGYNY - HERE.)
This is beyond horrific and I totally agree with you!!
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