Re: Muslim woman: Husband made me eat pork
From what I read of the sotry from a couple of sites:
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He had two failed marriages with white women, and figured it would be easier to marry someone from his “own” culture - I’m assuming he thought he would be marrying some desi doormat who would be submissive and do whatever he wanted rather than being independent
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He then tried to westernise her - make her drink, eat pork, wear revealing clothes
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She went along with it for the sake of trying to make the marriage work - he made threats to financially ruin and physically harm her family in Pakistan if she refused, or if she left him
A lot of people here saying that she just shouldn’t have done those things, but it’s easy to say that when your family isn’t in danger should you refuse.
- She went along doing these thigns for a while while wrestling inside with the knowledge that she was doing wrong, and then decided murder was better.
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She basically had 4 choices, from her perspective
a) Refuse to eat pork/drink alcohol/wear revealing clothes, and as a result see her parents reduced to poverty or physically harmed
b) Leave her husband, and as a result see her parents reduced to pverty or physically harmed
c) Continue doing these things
d) Commit murder
I don’t think many people, if given just these 4 choices, would select seeing their parents harmed.
So she was really down to just the two. What is a worse sin? Eating Pork/Drinking Alcohol/Dressing Revealingly, or committing murder?
(Of course the answer is murder)