Folks believe it or not this is mainstream Islam! This is what they believe and practice throughout the Islamic world and they even bring it into the west when they migrate here.
Long story short: The victim's family forced her at age 12 to marry a 60 year old man, who viciously beat her daily. When she complained to her family, they beat her and told her you are her husband's property. When she ran away, her brother tried to murder her with a ax!!!
People I have said it once and I'll say it again: Radical Islam isn't the problem, Islam itself is the problem!
Long story short: The victim's family forced her at age 12 to marry a 60 year old man, who viciously beat her daily. When she complained to her family, they beat her and told her you are her husband's property. When she ran away, her brother tried to murder her with a ax!!!
People I have said it once and I'll say it again: Radical Islam isn't the problem, Islam itself is the problem!
Exclusive: How my brother tried to kill me in 'honor attack' - CNN.com
This Pakistani girl's life of misery and suffering began at the tender age of 12, when instead of going to school she was married to a man old enough to be her grandfather. She says: "My family married me off when I was 12 years old. My husband was 60. Every day he would beat me. I would cry and beg him stop. But he just kept on beating me."
Packing up, shippping out of Afghanistan When Gul told her family what was happening, they responded in a way that shocked her. "My family would hit me when I complained. They told me you belong in your husband's house -- that is your life."
After five years of abuse, Gul Meena met a young Afghan man and finally gathered the courage to leave her husband in Pakistan. In November 2012 she packed up some belongings and they made their way across the border into Afghanistan to the city of Jalalabad.
Gul knew she was committing the ultimate crime according to strict Islamic customs -- running away from her husband with another man -- but she also knew she didn't want to continue living the life she had since her marriage.
"I'd tried to kill myself with poison several times but it didn't work. I hated my life and I had to escape. When I ran away I knew it would be dangerous. I knew my husband and family would be looking for me but I never thought this would happen. I thought my future would be bright," she says.
Days later her older brother tracked them down. Armed with an ax, he hacked to death Gul Meena's friend, and then struck his own sister 15 times -- cutting open her face, head and parts of her body.
Gul Meena shows me these scars -- taking off her headscarf, her finger gently running up and down the raised, freshly healed skin. She touches her head where the blade hit her and then shows me the deep cuts that were made to the back of her neck and her arms. It's clear to me she desperately tried to fight off her brother before she passed out.