Re: Muslim woman: Husband made me eat pork
From what I read of the sotry from a couple of sites:
1) 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
2) He then tried to westernise her - make her drink, eat pork, wear revealing clothes
3) 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.
4) 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)