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Muslim Woman Tries to Kill Husband; Claims He Fed Her Pork, Liquor

By Roy Edroso, Friday, Oct. 30 2009 @ 8:00AM
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Rabia Sarwar says she thought she was marrying a devout Muslim who, even though he taught in a godless Western high school on Staten Island, had traditional values. After all, it was a good old-fashioned arranged marriage -- what could go wrong? She, or whatever village elders arranged the union, seems somehow to have missed that her new husband, Sheik Nassem, was a Unitarian (!), had been married twice before to non-observant-Muslim women, and had, the New York Post tells us, "a taste for barbecued ribs."

Alas, soon after their May wedding, Sarwar claims Nassem was pressuring her to do sacrilegious things -- such as, according to a source, "eating pork, drinking alcohol, wearing short clothes," etc. So, Wednesday morning, Sarwar tried to cut his throat while he was sleeping. Cops say she also yelled, "It's time for you to die!" (Unconfirmed reports have her yelling "AIEEE!" as well.)

Her lawyer, perhaps cognizant of the fact that religious unorthodoxy is not at present a credible defense for attempted murder in Western countries, adds that Nassem "literally threatened to have her parents mutilated." Sarwar, who has in the past been treated for depression, is charged with attempted murder, assault, and criminal possession of a weapon.

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Ahmed says:

I don't blame her, females have similiar psychological makeup as males she is insane he has abused every limit in her body and it has run up to her mind, although she is to be blamed in circumstances like this she must not. Although it is wrong to try to kill him but females brains shut down after so much abuse has tored through her heart, she could of just left and got a divorce through court.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 30 2009 @ 6:32PM
ANastasia says:

Under Shariah, a woman has the right to disobey her husband when he orders her to do anything not mandated by Islam. Rabia was acting as any devout Muslim woman should, when confronted with the filth of the kuffr

Posted On: Sunday, Nov. 1 2009 @ 6:59PM

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