Woman Slashes Husband's Throat Because He's Not Devout Muslim

A Staten Island woman was charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a deadly weapon after slashing her husband's throat with a knife. The police say the devout Muslim woman was upset her husband did not follow Islam strictly, allegedly making her drink alcohol, dress in short skirts, and eat pork.

According to the Daily News, Sheikh Naseem, a teacher at Susan Wagner High School, woke up on Wednesday to find wife Rabia Sarwar on his chest yelling, "It's time for you to die!" and slashing his throat. Naseem told the Post, "She just screamed, ‘They are going to be orphans now!’"—referring to his children from previous marriages—"She kept on coming after me with the knife and I grabbed it and broke it into two pieces and ran out of the room." He had to call the police from a neighbor's home, because she had hidden the phones. Naseem was treated for surface wounds.

Sarwar allegedly confessed to the police, listing her husband's various abuses and how Salman Rushdie was his favorite author. Her lawyer said she was "emotionally abused..He got her to drink alcohol, eat pork and change her clothes. She wanted to dress traditionally. I think he was a cruel person who preyed on her."

Naseem, "who was born in Pakistan, but is half Norwegian and is a Unitarian," explained that he wed Sarwar, who is from Pakistan, through an arranged marriage five months ago. (Given his two previous failed marriages, an ex-wife said, "Being that he didn't do very well the first two times, he thought he would try a woman of his own culture.") Naseem said he thought she was adjusting to American culture just fine, "There was no gun pointed to her head to do these things."

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By Jen Chung in News on October 30, 2009 11:30 AM

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the3rdbridge

Islam: Religion of Peace?

matty

Wasn't this a scene in Goodfellas?

inoyourider

Fuck all religious fanatic nut-jobs.

Go to hell while drowning in pig's blood all of you.

NannyState

She'll make him Halal yet...

kedward

Not a great week for Muslim wackjobs. These two need to hook up. Love connection!!

Http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33...

Billiamsburg

ah yes, he didn't follow the 'religion of peace' hard enough! that kooky religion of peace. So peaceful, why would anyone NOT want to follow it?!

INTJ

I don't buy it. So maybe the guy isn't exactly Catch of the Day, but she sounds like a head case---what guy is going to get an arranged wife through Pakistan and then force her to wear miniskirts and eat pork? Totally counterintuitive.

schadenfreudian mensch

And he's teaching your kids math, counter intuitive math in fact! FTW!

Mr. Shankly

At least she can marry again:

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/30/guy-in-egypt-orders.html

Atomische

His third wife (in an arranged marriage) tried to murder him for not being religious enough?

This is why straight people shouldn't be allowed to marry.

Spirit of 76

Just waiting for ides_of_march or one of the other resident neocons to come by and write about how marriage as practiced by most Americans is sacred and has been done strictly for love for thousands of years.

EricRoberts

Was she using a butter knife?

grandzu

Also his favorite restaurant was Breslin.

hotstepper

no booze, pork, or skank skirts?! what a prude.

SighR

"He abused me in various ways and Salman Rushdie is a fantastic author."

Mr. Shankly

Religion is stupid.

Shinobi Shaw

Though I am not too fond of Exoteric Monotheism.....

No, this woman was clearly a nut job who probably used her Faith to do this.

There is probably something deeper in her Psyche that caused her to do this.