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> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327187,00.html
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> Abuse of U.S. Muslim Women Is Greater Than Re****ted, Advocacy Groups
> Say
>
> Thursday, January 31, 2008
>
> By Julie Kirtz
>
> Jan. 31: Fozia Sadiq, a Pakistani immigrant in Northern Virginia,
> hides her identity. She alleges her husband physically abused her for
> not cleaning.
>
> Jan. 31: Fozia Sadiq, a Pakistani immigrant in Northern Virginia,
> hides her identity. She alleges her husband physically abused her for
> not cleaning.
>
> WA****NGTON -- Two months into an arranged marriage, Fozia Sadiq, a
> young Pakistani immigrant, found herself trapped in the suburbs of
> Dallas, Texas, with a violent husband.
>
> She says he routinely beat her and intimidated her into never going
> anywhere in public without him.
>
> "My neck had so many bruises, and I had scratches all over my arms,"
> Sadiq told FOXNews.com through an interpreter.
>
> A practicing Muslim, Sadiq finally escaped in 2006, during the Muslim
> holy month of Ramadan.
>
> She says she stayed up all night reading the Koran and was physically
> abused by her husband for not cleaning up the kitchen the next
> morning.
>
> "He yelled at her, kicked her and punished her," says Mazna Hussain,
> an attorney who is helping Sadiq remain in the United States.
>
> "And when she was on the ground [during the beating], at that point
> she finally decided to leave before he killed her."
>
> There are no solid statistics on the rate of domestic violence within
> the Muslim-American community, and it is difficult to determine
> whether Muslim women are victimized more than women in the general
> population.
>
> But advocacy groups say Sadiq's story is not an isolated case.
>
> On New Year's Day, two teenage Egyptian-American sisters, Amina and
> Sarah Said, were shot dead in Irving, Texas. Police are searching for
> their father, Yaser Abdel Said, who re****tedly was angry with their
> American-like behavior, which included dating.
>
> According to the girls' great-aunt, their father had been abusing them
> for years. She says they, along with their mother, fled after he
> threatened to kill the girls.
>
> The great-aunt called the murders "honor killings" for bringing shame
> to the family, a charge Islam Said, the girls' brother, denies. Police
> say they are looking into motives.
>
> Allegations that the girls were killed for dishonoring the family's
> name has brought greater focus on all forms of abuse in the Muslim-
> American community in what some say is a bigger problem than is
> re****ted because, they say, it is veiled in secrecy.
>
> "I suspect it's happening a lot more than we think," says Hussain, who
> works with battered Muslim women at the Tahirih Justice Center in
> Northern Virginia.
>
> "We hear again and again from [abused] women who say, 'I can't tell my
> parents back home because if they find out, my younger sister can't
> get married,'" says Meghna Gozwami, client services coordinator for
> DAYA, a South-Asian immigrant group that provides legal and financial
> assistance for abused families. The name "DAYA" means "compassion" in
> Sanskrit.
>
> DAYA, which runs a domestic violence hotline, has seen a dramatic
> increase in distress calls --almost 20 times more -- in the last five
> years (from 189 calls in 2003 to 3,308 last year).
>
> Click here to read more about DAYA.
>
> It isn't clear if the increase in calls is due to more abuse or
> whether more immigrant women, exposed to America's open culture, have
> felt the freedom to seek help.
>
> But Gozwami says she is sure that the women who call the hotline are
> afraid not only for their own safety but for fear that re****ting the
> abuse will shame their families.
>
> Those working to stop the violence say part of the problem is that
> women, often recent immigrants, face intense family and religious
> pressure to keep quiet.
>
> Many Muslim immigrant women do not even know that they are victims of
> a crime. That's because in their home country it may be legal or
> acceptable for men to physically punish or even kill their wives and
> daughters for dishonoring the family.
>
> And when an immigrant woman tries to get help, advocates say, an
> abusive husband often will threaten to have her de****ted.
>
> "Within our community we are still struggling with the issue of
> domestic abuse," says Hadayai Majeed, who runs the Baitul Salaam
> shelter in Atlanta, which caters to Muslim women.
>
> She says women and girls who come to the shelter sometimes have been
> physically punished for what their fathers, husbands and brothers
> believe is behavior that dishonors the family.
>
> Dating a non-Muslim or not wearing a traditional head scarf can
> trigger a beating.
>
> "This can be interpreted as being extremely rebellious or be an excuse
> for abuse," Majeed says.
>
> Not only is this behavior culturally accepted in many Islamic
> countries, but it is encouraged. Last year a prominent Saudi cleric
> went on television to tell Muslim men how to properly beat their
> wives.
>
> In the video he instructs viewers: "Beating in the face is
> forbidden ... even if you want your camel or donkey to start walking,
> you are not allowed to beat it in the face. If this is true for
> animals, it is all the more true when it comes to humans"
>
> Click here to play the video.
>
> Here in America, advocacy groups say those who turn to their community
> for help do not always find it, in particular from some religious
> leaders who, although they are in the United States, still hold to
> cultural traditions of their homeland and do not clearly reject
> violence against women.
>
> "I had another client facing severe domestic violence from her
> husband, and her Imam kept going to the woman and persuading her to go
> back" to her abuser, Hussain says.
>
> Author Phyllis Chesler, who writes about Islamic gender issues in the
> United States, believes domestic violence against Muslim-American
> women, not just immigrants, is covered up by an Islamic culture that
> treats women as second-class citizens.
>
> "I'm not saying every Muslim family does it or that every Imam
> encourages it or that only Muslim men beat their wives, but Muslim men
> have control over their wives," she says.
>
> "And monitoring the chastity of their women is an obsession, because
> if she loses it, or has a boyfriend or wants to marry who she wants to
> marry, this could be a death sentence."
>
> The practice of murdering a woman or girl who is believed to have
> damaged the family honor is culturally accepted in countries including
> Jordan, Pakistan and the Palestinian territories.
>
> According to a 2000 re****t by the United Nations Population Fund, as
> many as 5,000 women worldwide are murdered each year in so-called
> honor killings. But re****ted killings in Europe and North America have
> raised concerns that Muslim women in the West are becoming
> increasingly vulnerable.
>
> The most recent case came in December when a Canadian teenager died
> after an alleged attack by her father over a dispute about whether she
> should wear a traditional Muslim head scarf.
>
> To date, there officially are no do***ented cases of honor killings in
> the United States. The recent slayings of Amina and Sarah Said,
> however, have triggered a debate over whether this is the first, and
> if the deadly ritual has been ex****ted to America and more killings
> are on the way.
>
> Members of groups such as the Tahirih Justice Center say they are
> watching the case closely.
>
> "There is a very conservative, twisted view out there about Islam,"
> Hussain says.
>
> Shariq Siddiqui, the executive director of the Muslim Alliance of
> Indiana, says some Muslims manipulate their faith and culture to
> justify abuse.
>
> "I hate to use him as an example, but Usama bin Laden is doing this at
> a macro level, and Muslim-American men who abuse women are doing it at
> a micro level," says Siddiqui, who works with Muslim domestic violence
> victims through the Julian Center, a non-profit agency in
> Indianapolis.
>
> But many are reluctant to quantify to what degree Muslim faith
> perpetuates the problem.
>
> Practicing Muslims, even battered women, do not want to ****tray Islam
> as an abusive religion or demonize all Muslim men.
>
> "There's domestic abuse in every community," says Rafia Zakaria, an
> Indiana University scholar and writer who is working to educate
> Muslims about spousal abuse.
>
> "Like American women, Muslim women who are abused face psychological
> pressure from their abusers, and they're afraid to speak out."
>
> Muslim-Americans just recently have started to confront the problem.
> Some domestic violence shelters have opened for Muslim women, mostly
> in big cities. And activists are beginning to reach out to sympathetic
> Imams who will teach Muslims in the United States that domestic
> violence is unacceptable.
>
> Zakaria has launched a legal defense fund to sup****t Muslim victims of
> abuse.
>
> "I won't lie, it's a controversial problem to talk about," Zakaria
> says. "But the problem is within."
>
> Fozia Sadiq knows that all too well. She was one of the lucky ones who
> got out of her abusive relation****p.
>
> "In my culture there are men like this, even well-educated men, who
> call women ignorant and backwards," she says. "But they are the
> ignorant ones.
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mother (nikomak), molest children, wear a beekeepers outfit all the
time, never shower or bath, beat your wives, learn terrorist activities
at a maddrassa, wipe your ass with stones, sell the donkey you ****ed to
a nearby village, marry a nine year-old , send your child off to an
indoctrination camp, practice thighing with little kids, ............
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