New York: Muslim who beat his wife to death for not serving him goat dinner says he had right to “discipline” her : Jihad Watch

New York: Muslim who beat his wife to death for not serving him goat dinner says he had right to “discipline” her : Jihad Watch

New York: Muslim who beat his wife to death for not serving him goat dinner says he had right to “discipline” her

Robert Spencer Jul 12, 2014 at 10:44am New York City, women's rights in Islam 15 Comments

“He maintained she ‘disrespected’ him by swearing and believed he was entitled to ‘discipline’ his wife of 21 years.” And he was: “Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that God has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God’s guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them.” (Qur’an 4:34)

Islamic scholars, of course, generally say that Qur’an 4:34 only allows men to discipline their wives by beating them lightly, so as not to leave a mark. The problem is that “lightly” is in the eye of the beholder, and once the principle that a woman can be “disciplined” by violence is allowed, the door is opened to what happened to Nazar Hussain.

“Pakistani jailed 18 years to life for wife’s NY murder,” AFP, July 10, 2014 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

NEW YORK: A US judge sentenced an elderly Pakistani-American to 18 years to life in prison Wednesday for murdering his wife in New York after she refused to cook him a goat supper.

Noor Hussain, 75, was convicted of second degree murder for killing Nazar in April 2011 as she lay in bed in their Brooklyn apartment after subjecting her to years of abuse.

Frail and with medical problems, Wednesday’s sentencing from Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Matthew D’Emic means that Hussain will likely die behind bars, though he will be eligible for parole after 18 years.

District attorney Kenneth Thompson welcomed the tough penalty.

“This defendant viciously attacked his wife as she lay in bed, unable to defend herself,” he said. “Now the defendant has been held accountable for this brutal and cowardly act.”

Thompson said Hussain “viciously” beat 66-year-old Nazar, his third wife, to death. The medical examiner’s office said she had been battered more than 20 times.

She died of a fatal brain hemorrhage.

Hussain admitted only to striking her with a wooden stick after she made lentils rather than the goat dinner he wanted.

He maintained she “disrespected” him by swearing and believed he was entitled to “discipline” his wife of 21 years.

The harrowing trial saw photographs of Nazar’s swollen, bruised face, and of her body lying on a blood-stained bed next to a blood-soaked bedroom wall in the couple’s modest apartment.

Neighbor Safida Khan told the court she heard the Hussains argue for years, and that she twice intervened.

She testified hearing Nazar “crying and yelling” and her husband “cursing and shouting” on the day she died.

Relatives said Hussain moved to the United States more than 30 years ago in search of a better life and worked at a gas station.

Hussain had faced a maximum sentence of 25 years to life.