Lady, this is the United States-Just File For Divorce
30 October 2009 6:46 pm by spincitysd
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NEW YORK — A devout Muslim woman forced by her newlywed husband to eat pork, wear short skirts and drink alcohol slashed his neck with a kitchen knife as he slept, according to a statement she gave to police.
Rabia Sarwar, 37, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and was freed on $25,000 bail. She told police in a written statement that she was emotionally abused by her husband, Seikh Naseem, and forced to violate her religious beliefs.
“He made me do so many things that are against Islam,” she wrote in a statement to police.
“I did all that just to make him happy but inside me there was a war,” she continued.
Naseem suffered cuts to his neck, cheek and hand early Wednesday before fighting Sarwar off and dialing 911 from his Staten Island home, authorities said.
“I did my best to cut his throat,” Rabia Sarwar wrote. “But the next moment he jumped on me and grabbed me.”
Sarwar’s attorney, Joe Licitra, said she had previously been treated for depression. Her husband told the New York Post that Sarwar, a native of Pakistan, was having a hard time adjusting to American culture.
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Having a hard time adjusting to the U.S. is an understatement. Here you are not allowed to knife your husband for going off the rails. OK, maybe in Texas but that hardly counts.
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That is far too flip for the situation. Women this much in thrall to their husband have been beat down way too much. It’s just not that easy.
In thrall to her husband? Exactly how? She barely knew the man. Come on relationship lady this match up had disaster written all over it. Him: an abusive, alcoholic, non-believer; Her: a traditional, puritanical, religious absolutist. If the woman was in thrall to anything it was a unbending religious attitude that left her no options other than violence out of her situation.
Hello, the woman tried to slit her husbands throat. She did so because she was taught that this was the only “honorable” thing to do. She bought into a whole religious-cultural mindset that only left her with the option of surrender or homicide (either of hubby or herself.) Because of that she made a irredeemably bad decision. Still she never stopped once to think that murder was piss poor solution to her problem.
The husband could have never set up this little passion play in the first place without a big assist from certain cultural expectations.
Still as you well know it does take two to tango. Both parties let this situation get way out of hand. Results do matter and we can not give out free passes to abused women to knife their no good hubbies; no matter how much they deserve it.