Why is this of any interest to aus.politics?
> http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024849.php
>
> A Valentine's Day pearl of wisdom from one of the World's Great
> Religions and one of the Three Great Abrahamic Faiths: "Men have
> authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other,
> and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are
> obedient. They guard their unseen parts because God has guarded them. As
> for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them
> to beds apart and beat them." -- Qur'an 4:34
>
> Yet another Feel the Valentine's Love Update: "Afghan diplomat Mohammed
> Fagirad charged in all-day wife beating," by Nicole Bode for the New
> York Daily News, February 14 (thanks to Pamela):
>
> An Afghan diplomat was charged Friday with beating his wife "like a
> dog" for more than 15 hours in their Queens home, prosecutors said.
>
> Mohammed Fagirad, 30, a vice consul at the Afghanistan Consulate,
> brutalized his wife inside their Flushing home from about 8:30 a.m.
> Wednesday until nearly midnight, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown
> said.
>
> During the attack, Fagirad bit, slapped, choked and beat the
> 22-year-old woman with a belt, pushed her down a flight of stairs and
> sat on her chest, prosecutors said.
>
> At one point, prosecutors said, Fagirad threw his wife up against a
> wall, held her there by the neck and then let her drop to the floor,
> where he beat her with a belt.
>
> Fagirad told police his "wife was a dog and he was going to treat
> her like a dog," prosecutors said.
>
> When Fagirad left the home, his wife fled and went to the 109th
> Precinct stationhouse, where she filed a domestic violence report,
> prosecutors said. She then returned home.
>
> When Fagirad returned, he demanded his wife's cell phone and called
> police to file a counterclaim, prosecutors said....
>
> Typical displacement of responsibility.
>