A man who beat, slashed and sexually mutilated his estranged girlfriend - then calmly fed and bathed the couple's 5-month-old son before he fled - was sentenced Friday to more than 17 years in prison.
As he stood before the judge, Afif Abdiaziz Ahmed, 27, declared that he wanted to withdraw his guilty plea because he had decided the agreed-on sentence was too stiff.... The 25-year-old woman survived but suffered permanent brain damage. Ahmed "ended her life as she knew it," Assistant Ramsey County Attorney Derek Fitch told the court.....
The article doesn't mention the word "Moslem". Neither does the Star Trib version of the article (although it does hint at a cultural 'problem'). The article should have noted that 4:34 of the Koran is fairly clear that wife beating is allowed in Islam. Unfortunately the various authoritative 9th-12th century commentators on the Koran are not fully translated so the deep roots of this isn't known as well as it should be. |