What the heck, muslim men are obsessed with sex, if they are going to cheat on their wives-make them pay for it.
By Jo Ind, 2 Sep, 2008, the Birmingham Post
How does a woman from a traditional Muslim family end up working as a prostitute? Saira Ahmed tells Jo Ind her story.
“My family believe that I have disgraced and dishonoured them in many ways since I turned from a girl into a woman, but they know only the tiniest part of the truth. If they have found out just how I have been living for the last few years, my brothers would literally kill me, even though I did it in order to support the family financially during difficult times.”
-Some sects cover up prostitution with a weird practice of temporary marriages but reality is a slut is a slut is a slut.
These are the words of Saira Ahmed, a Muslim woman who was tricked into marriage at the age of 17. She fled from her husband and ended up working as a prostitute.
-I will make no moral judgment on prostitutes – a girl has to eat. If her life as a hooker beats life under the slavery of muslim marriage she is better off.
Tragically, this is not an unusual story. But how did it happen to Saira?
Saira was born in the Midlands 37 years ago. Her mother had come over from a small village outside Lahore to marry her father at the age of 17.
She did not know until she was married that her husband had been married before and had three children who were around her age at the time of the marriage.
-Not uncommon, muslim men change wives more than underwear. As the women age or stand up for their rights, they are cast out and islamic society doesn’t care about them. In many muslim societies the women control the money to keep the husbands under control or to allow themselves a life if castaway.
She had no status and immediately had to work endless hours in a garment factory amongst a family that was hostile to her because her husband was divorced. There was violence.
-Typical muslim thinking, punish the victim.
“Because Mum was pretty and because so many of the men gave her the bad eye there were eventually rumours that she was being unfaithful to Dad with one of his cousins,” says Saira. “Without any evidence Uncle took it upon himself to believe the rumours and to dole out the punishment that such an act demanded.
-Also typical muslim thinking, islamic honor is protected even over loyalty of family.
“I don’t believe for one moment she was guilty of the crimes she was accused of, and I doubt if Dad believed it at the time either.
-I doubt he cared he just used it as an excuse to enslave another child.
“Whatever their age, the women in families like ours are nearly always treated thoughtlessly by their men.
-This is also typical. We have run a few stories of “moderate muslim men” romancing women until they converted and then clamping down on her after marriage.
Saira was subjected to that same violence when she was growing up. Saira was eventually sent to Pakistan but when she got there she found that the family was arranging a wedding – hers.
-That line probably means she was beaten or raped by uncles, brother, father or all of them. (more…)
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