Afghan Woman Allegedly Strangled to Death by Husband for…Giving Birth to a Girl
- Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:35am by
Billy Hallowell
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan woman has been strangled to death, apparently by her husband, who was upset that she gave birth to a second daughter rather than the son he wanted, police said Monday.
It was the latest in a series of grisly examples of subjugation of women that have made headlines in Afghanistan in the past few months – including a 15-year-old tortured and forced into prostitution by in-laws and a female rape victim who was imprisoned for adultery.
An Afghan woman wearing a burka walks in a street market in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP / Rodrigo Abd)
The episodes have raised the question of what will happen to the push for women’s rights in Afghanistan as the international presence here shrinks along with the military drawdown. NATO forces are scheduled to pull out by the end of 2014.
In the 10 years since the ouster of the Taliban, great strides have been made for women in Afghanistan, with many attending school, working in offices and even sometimes marching in protests. But abuse and repression of women are still common, particularly in rural areas where women are still unlikely to set foot outside of the house without a burqa robe that covers them from head to toe.
The man in the latest case, Sher Mohammad, fled the Khanabad district in Kunduz province last week, about the time a neighbor found his 22-year-old wife dead in their house, said District Police Chief Sufi Habibullah. Medical examiners whom police brought to check the body said she had been strangled, Habibullah said.
The woman, named Estorai, had warned family members that her husband had repeatedly reproached her for giving birth to a daughter rather than a son and had threatened to kill her if it happened again, said Provincial women’s affairs chief Nadira Ghya, who traveled to Khanabad to deal with the case. Estorai gave birth to her second daughter between two and three months ago, Ghya said. Officials did not have a family name for either Sher Mohammad or Estorai.
Burqa-clad women walking in Afghanistan (AP)
Police took the man’s mother into custody because she appears to have collaborated in a plot to kill her daughter-in-law, Habibullah said. Ghya, who visited the man’s mother in jail, said that she swears that Estorai committed suicide by hanging. Police said they found no rope and no evidence of hanging from the woman’s wounds.
Boy babies are traditionally prized much more highly than girls in Afghanistan, where a son means a breadwinner and a daughter is seen as a drain on the family until she is married off. Even so, a murder over the gender of a baby would be rare and shocking if proved true.
The U.S. Embassy issued a statement Monday praising the Afghan government for recent declarations supporting women’s rights in the wake of the latest abuse cases that have garnered media attention.
“The rights of women cannot be relegated to the margins of international affairs, as this issue is at the core of our national security and the security of people everywhere,” the statement said. It did not address the killing of the young woman in Kunduz.
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Comments (155)
Apple Bite
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:05amHow anyone can still speak highly of Islam anymore is beyond comprehension….
Report Post »tmplarnite
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:11amAnd where is the “GREAT” Women’s rights Organization “NOW”….As usual fighting for i.e. lesbian rights…a organization of total brainless idiots!
Report Post »VicksVaporub
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:25amAlways the word ALLEGEDLY in the headlines of these stories.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:32am@VICKS
Report Post »Your pic is priceless. 1 of the funniest I’ve seen.
LeeroyJenkins
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:53amWhat a moron. I guess they do not have science over there. Women aren’t at fault for the sex of the baby. Maybe his gene pool only produces females…Maybe it is just him in his family…I think self strangulation should be his punishment. Tape his hands around his throat.
Report Post »kapnkd
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:55amEXACTLY! …Years ago, I was very open and tolerant to what I then considered their “religion”. Having now seen, read and learned in depth what pislam is completely about and how it works – I have nothing left but disgust and contempt for those who embrace such a radical intolerant cult!
Report Post »Ethereal
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 12:28pmThis also shows how behind the times they are. It has been known for a long time now that the man’s sperm actually decided the sex of the child. He should have offed himself.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 12:50pmGo to http://www.now.org. (I don’t post links to avoid sending a possible virus.) The only non-US articles about violence against women I could find were two articles in 2005 regarding violence in Juarez, Mexico. NOW simply doesn’t care about Muslim women. That is a true shame. Isn’t it odd that conservative posters on this site do care. I guess we hold the value of human life at a higher level.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:04pm.
Report Post »Check!
Another murder by the “religion of peace.”
Ho-Hum.
The_Jerk
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:14pmSo, now we are covering murders in Afghanistan. Not enough in Detroit or D.C.? Come on, even the most naive among us can see the blatant propaganda continually propagated on these pages. Anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian, anti-Iran, and pro-Zionism, pro-Israel.
Fools!
Report Post »barnsy
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:57pm@ Kapnkd Your right on! I always accepted differing religions until a few years ago. After studying Islam and the Koran , I‘ve concluded it’s nothing but an evil cult of death and destruction. No other religion has violent world domination as its stated goal. Non Muslims are to be converted or killed and women are treated as slaves.One can lie,cheat,murder and steal as long as it is in the nane of Allah. If thats not enough, their great prophet Mohammad was a war mongering little pedophile . Oh…nice Capt.Avatar pict …I used to be a big Star Blazers fan in the day.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 5:36pmBarnsy: “@ Kapnkd Your right on! I always accepted differing religions until a few years ago…”
Fact is, over the last 100 years more Christians and Jews, have bombed and killed more Muslims, than the reverse. Food for thought?
Report Post »cuinsong
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 6:46pmI’m telling you this culture is certifiably insane! Who in their right mind could think this kind of stupidity is in any way condoned by God! More likely condoned by Satan!
Report Post »This song is about Muslim violence that is excepted as god inspired called “That’s not right” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_10789999
barnsy
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 8:35pm@Jerk Im thinking your comment is BS …show me some stats! You cant, here is why…Many Muslims may have been killed in wars and because of other military actions.The actions were carried out by nations not in the name of Christianity or Judaism.Prove the faith of every soldier fighting these radicals and maybe you could prove your accusation.With the Muslims its easy .They freely admit their religious ( cult ) motives.
Report Post »babylonvi
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 9:14pmHey. @THE_JERK. appropriate name ya have there.
Report Post »Uechi
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:02amTypical ignorant Islamic moron. If he had a brain he’d know he determined the childs sex not her.I hope the dog excrement rots in Hell
Report Post »DREDGE
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:24amLooks like he will be strangling a lot of wives!!!!!!
Report Post »wboehmer
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:35amWhere is the condemnation of this by islamic leaders?
I know, silly me, but get this . . . I’m still waiting to hear condemnation of the 9/11 attacks by islamic leaders.
More generally, is there any good being done in the world by muslims?
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:42amI seem to recall referring to “vile Religionists” in the story on the Islamists in Canada who were just convicted for the drowning murder of three children and one wife in a Sharia-esque execution for “dishonoring the family and Islam”.
I’m gonna double down on that general sentiment. Nevermind the 7th century ignorance exhibitted in the idea that a woman can control the sex of her offspring, to go so far as to murder her for it is just beyond atrocious. Seems Islam has a penchant for atrocity.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 12:02pm@wboehmer
Report Post »I asked the same thing in another post. What is the mission statement of islam? To kill all infidels? Do they not feed or clothe the needy? Do they help the needy in other countries? Do they do any mission work, or do they even HAVE any missionaries?
None I have seen or am aware of. I can ony hope the one true God can get to them and open their eyes to the hate and violence they are spreading.
mountainmover101
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:57pmHey Uechi, the guy does not know that. Afghanistan, in generality, is stuck in about the 12th century. Some areas are near the 20th century. Some areas are barely out of the Iron Age. Just because we live in a modern society with all of the up-to-date technology doesn’t mean the rest of the world is anywhere near that. There are large portions of Africa and South America still in the Stone Age. That being said, I’m not entirely sure that this is necessarily an Islam issue. Most, if not all, cultures value boys over girls as progeny. There is a reason that there are no matriarchal societies, except a minuscule sampling of the absolute most primitive, still in existence today. What the man did was abhorrent, true, but how is aborting a fetus on the basis of gender any different.
Report Post »larrylarrylarry
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:01amThe frightening thing is that children are born and are indoctrinated into Islam, a system of brainwashing so complete that it permanently changes the brain cells. There is NO possibility of these people being anything other than what they are. Their behavior is physically locked into their deformed brain cells.
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:01amMuslims are so far out there that they are the reason why there is ugliness in the world. These men are cruel and work for satan. They should not be allowed into the USA. They do not like our laws or rules and cry for their own rules. Stay in your own country and leave this country the hell alone.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:01amI guess sex education isn’t taught in Muslim schools. Makes you wonder where the women rights groups are in the world. You’d think they would be packing up and flying to Afghanistan to fight. Oh, could it be they don‘t because they’d be stoned or beheaded?
Muslim men, 500 years behind the times.
Report Post »Krutch
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:54amAnd headed the wrong way!
Report Post »mountainmover101
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 4:06pmWomen’s rights groups are anything but. They don‘t care about the women in Afghanistan because it isn’t politically sexy. NOW et al is all about money and power. Nothing they say about women’s “rights” is of any consequence to them. They seem to be only interested in the advancement of abortions worldwide. Abortions cost money.. Someone benefits from such expenditures, especially if it is done under the “auspices” of the government. We all know about the pandemic corruption in government. I wonder what the links between the abortion industry and these “organizations” really is.
Report Post »BloodSweatandTears
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:25amWomen’s Rights groups throughly inundated, wouldn’t know where to begin….accept with the question, “Women have rights?” So far they haven’t even opened the complaint department there.
Report Post »jstan442
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:59ampositive thing to come out of this is there will be less men for jihad becoz they will not have women around to carry their babies
Report Post »Senior Viking
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:59amislam = Evil
There is NO PLACE in civlized society for islam.
Report Post »skipmontesjr
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:57amBarbarians….With such a lovely religion….
Report Post »Fiddlededee
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:54amMy perception of Islam:
“Islam: The religion of peace and tolerance. As long as you agree with me, there will be peace and I will tolerate you.”
–Me
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:54amCalling Hillary. Calling Hillary Hello,,, Hello???? Anyone in there, Hillary??? NAGS, NAGS?? Hello??? Anyone of you Nags gonna stop this?? ,, Anyone of you???
Nah,, just get another Latte, and march for Women’s Rights. A woman’s right to murder a baby.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:53amCould we talk Pelosi, Wasserman, Waters and Boxer into wearing Burkahs ???? PLEASE !
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:58amYeah, but without the eyeholes…
Report Post »mohavegreen
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:13amImpossible dream, none have ever shut up long enough to listen.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:18amIt would improve their looks
Report Post »Krutch
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:57amAnd made from the same material used for sandwich bags. No air holes, please.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:02pmOh Gawd, a burka with waving hands, would be a sure
Report Post »give away for Paloosi……..
thekuligs
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:53amUgh, not just an animal. A STUPID animal. As said, a man determines the sex.
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:06pmMy solution to the problem, take the daughter away, send her for adoption to the US. Then have the mans genitals removed, if he doesn’t want his child and would kill his wife over that, then he should not be allowed to spawn any ever again.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:53amWhere Islam is dominant, ignorance and evil dominate.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:52amAnd in China there have been population controls in place for decades. Little is said about how many a girl baby is left to drown in the rice patties at birth.
Difference? Yea China has a lot of our debt.
Report Post »snufy
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 7:35pmI know, Stotic. Chinese girls are so very cute. I have a Chinese friend with a 6 year old girl and she’s highly intelligent, very funny and so cute and loving. I wish I could take all of those unwanted gifts from God and provide a home for them. Seems to me that there’s a lot of Chinese men without the possibility of ever having a girlfriend or wife. So very sad how stupid people are.
Report Post »martinez012577
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:51amThis type of stuff is coming to a our country if we dont go back to the Constitution. We are the only beacon of light in this world, and because of our progressive, globalist, warmongering people we keep putting in office we are fading.
Head back to the Constitution. Vote Ron Paul 2012
Report Post »readytostand
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:05pmWho is Ron Paul? Wasnt he a jamaican rapper in the early 2000,s. Oh that was Sean Paul? Sorry my mistake, never mind.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:50amThe entire GDP of Afghanistan is 36 billion per year….. We are currently spending 128 billion per year there…… You do the math !
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:53amAnother sad story about the actions of some evil men of the Muslim faith who murder at will. Then are protected by their very own.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:29amCorrection. We are currently borrowing 128 billion a year over there….. Where is the outrage? Know wonder they get urinated upon.
Report Post »martinez012577
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:48amMormons believe Muslims go to Heaven.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:56amEducate yourself…
Do Mormons teach that they are the only ones who go to heaven?
Report Post »http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/response/qa/heaven_only.htm
BassChick
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:37am@UBETHECHANGE
the link to the article re: LDS and anti-Mormons has errors. I know of no Protestant Evangelical non-Mormon who would say a 6 year old child goes to hell.
Report Post »martinez012577
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 12:41pm@UBE
Mormons believe they are the only ones that can become exalted to the highest level of Heaven. Only the worst of the worst people or from the way I understand it, Ex Mormons that stop believing go to hell.
Report Post »readytostand
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 2:54pmMormons! Straight from the mouth of the great grandaughter of Brigham Young who was the founder of Brigham Young University, was taught that any mormon male who accomplished certain levels of the mormon requirements becomes a GOD, yes i did capitalize God. Yes they mean on the same level as Christ himself! The general public doesn’t know that- they keep that part hush-hush! They call themselves Christians but they cannot be if they do not believe Christ saves them. They believe (true) Christianity is a false religion and they get to heaven by their works then eventually will become a God themselves. Oh, and you gals out there do not become a god ! A woman can enter heaven if she is married to a man who has fulfilled all his godly requirements! WOW!!! Good news! His great grandaughter converted to Christianity!!! AWESOME!!!!
Report Post »PeppermintCrush
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 3:26pmAre you seriously going to use this to bash Mormons? The last I heard, Mormons don’t strangle their wives for having girl babies..
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:42amSad story, especially considering that when it comes to how a baby’s sex is determined, it is the MAN‘S genetic material that determine’s sex. The POS should have just hung himself since he’s to blame for his own problems…not man enough to make another man-child!
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:49amMale sperm are not as good @ swimming as girl sperm… at least on a microscope slide.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:41amMichelle would look much better if she wore her burka when out and about
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:41amWhere are the modern muslims and when will they stand with us against this evilness! People of all faiths need to stand together against extremism in all religions and militant atheists! Children of one God unite!
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:55amNews Flash;;;; there are no moderate muslims……
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:02am@DETROIT PAPERBOY Your ignorant and a bigot.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:05am“We want to be Americans. Religion is a private issue. We ran away from Political Islam in Iran, but it has followed us…. CAIR [the Council on American-Islamic Relations] has created this image that all 3 million Muslims in America are the same and CAIR represents them – which is not true.… Bin Laden and Political Islam have been created because [Islamists] have felt that they are being dragged into the 21st century from the 6th century.”
— Excerpts of remarks by Manda Ervin, an American Muslim who fled Iran following the 1979 revolution, to a conference of Muslim moderates on Capitol Hill.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/2217/moderate-muslim-speak-out-on-capitol-hill
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:10amUBETHECHANGE
Report Post »their is no such thing as a modern muslim they are all evil, it is their teaching to be.
UBETHECHANGE
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:15am@AJAYW Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy; Hedieh Mirahmadi, president of the World Organization for Resource Development & Education (WORDE); Shadi Osier, head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America; and Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, a former radical Islamist who has become a vocal critic of the Ground Zero mosque.
This diverse group of speakers shared one main thing: All were non-Islamist Muslims who are usually ignored by Congress, the executive branch and the mainstream media.
None was involved with Islamist groups linked to Hamas or the Muslim Brotherhood; none was an unindicted co-conspirator in terror-finance cases; and none is an apologist for radical Islam.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:15am@UBETHECHANGE
Detroit paperboy is 100% correct. By the way religion is not a private issue when people are being killed because some supposed to be religion says to kill them. your the idiot – eat some pork chops you will fill much better
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:21am@UBETHECHANGE
By the way, are you a member of the muslim brotherhood?
Report Post »BassChick
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:45amMy brother and wife lived in Dubai for 9 years. They met and made friends with many Muslims, very “kind and peaceful” people. BUT, when they began to discuss their differing beliefs (Christianity vs. Islam), very calmly and factually, one nice sweet older friend, a Muslim woman exclaimed with an “aha!” expression toward my sister-in-law: “then you should be killed!”
So much for kindness, peace and tolerance…
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 12:03pmThere will be no outcry from the nonexistent “moderate” muslims. There are none. Those that do come to their senses, apostate.
No consciously functioning human can remain a muslim once the ideology of death is made clear to them. Doing so only underscores their adherence to Jihad. Any muslim that stands before you insisting that they are “democratic” “non-Islamists” is deceiving you. Knowing your abhorrence of their true nature, they seek to commit Jihad in other ways that you may find palatable.
Every single muslims desires greatly to see Islam and Sharia ascend over all the Planet. They do this through Jihad, in the way of their warlord prophet, Mohammed, and in praise of their deity, Allah who resides now in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, center of the Jihad for Planet Earth.
Stop Jihad.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:41amSelf righteous Pigs! What a peaceful religion. This batch wants to turn us into Sharia-robots in the USA? I think not.
What would have happened if she had the child in a car while shopping for zucchini? Off with the husbands head, and use him for a urinal.
Report Post »almilford
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:58amJust remember, Kiddies……these IDIOTS worship a Rock in MECCA!!!
Report Post »Arc
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:40amSuch a brave and honorable religion giving its followers the sanctmonious right to kill another for failing to please . Sounds like a spoiled criminally insane murderer..{ I can do this because I want to}
Report Post »USPATRIOT101
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:44amYeah, now he has nobody to send around the world to blow himself up, robbing the family of huge cash.
Report Post »democritusoilder267
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:40amThis is disgusting. I cannot believe something this can happen. But it is all to common. This is why I cannot defend religion. We cannot coexist.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:43amSince you’re a muslim wannabe yourself, which group do you suggest we eliminate?????
Report Post »OhioRifleman
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:48am@ Democritus
It is not the religion that causes these matters. Hundreds of religions exist around the world where this does not happen. It is a fundamental lack of honor and understanding of the necessities of existence that creates these problems. Sadly, this lack of honor seems endemic to certain religions, but I digress.
Report Post »BrerRabbit
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:39amWhat a bunch of animals.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:39am.
Report Post »The Obama girls are lucky………..
uisignorant
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:08amHow so? They have BHO for a father.
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