Hi all this is my first real post but I am having some difficulties making the post. The problem is that I am an abused wife and it is very hard but I am willing to share it with you an hope you can suggest a way out..
My husband was extremely abusive through our marriage. He beat me up all the time. I have had a broken nose, a cracked skull, bruises and many other injuries. I have had to have medical treatment many times and have been in hospital after his assaults. His family always blamed me for his violence. His excuse for beating me was that he believed I was fooling around on him. He said I was always looking at other men. This is simply untrue as I am a Muslim and it is forbidden. But it was him that was fooling around. He always brought diseases home and we had to always be taking pills and getting shots to get rid of them. But he would blame me for that too saying that I gave him the diseases. Every time this happened he would beat me with a piece of wood because according to him it is a right given to him by Allah through the Qu'araan.
But there is nowhere for me to go when he beats me. Once I tried to see someone at the mosque but I was told that my husband has that right and that I must never ever call 911 because then the authorities would investigate my husband again for having undesirable connections in the Middle East (Tareq, my husband transfers donations made to the mosque to the UAE through his business which he registered to me. Also they say that we as Muslims must not appear to have the same domestic violence problems as the kafir and so our problems must be settled within our communities and always according to Sharia Law.. But my husband continued to threaten me with a gun, he has a trunk full of new AK's and often said he would use one on me if I try to run away. He put in some kind of a gadget on the telephone so he said he would know if I ever called the authorities.I am truly scared of him. He now says we must soon return to the Middle East so that he can do his duty for Allah by helping out with Jihad but will not give me details. What can I do?I do not want to go back there again I would rather stay in Norcross (Atlanta).
The other problem is that I am worried he will either take the children with him when and if he leaves but in either scenario there will be no child support and most certainly no money for me.
Please help with advice if you can because I am running out of options.
Badreya Al-Mariri
Norcross GA
My husband was extremely abusive through our marriage. He beat me up all the time. I have had a broken nose, a cracked skull, bruises and many other injuries. I have had to have medical treatment many times and have been in hospital after his assaults. His family always blamed me for his violence. His excuse for beating me was that he believed I was fooling around on him. He said I was always looking at other men. This is simply untrue as I am a Muslim and it is forbidden. But it was him that was fooling around. He always brought diseases home and we had to always be taking pills and getting shots to get rid of them. But he would blame me for that too saying that I gave him the diseases. Every time this happened he would beat me with a piece of wood because according to him it is a right given to him by Allah through the Qu'araan.
But there is nowhere for me to go when he beats me. Once I tried to see someone at the mosque but I was told that my husband has that right and that I must never ever call 911 because then the authorities would investigate my husband again for having undesirable connections in the Middle East (Tareq, my husband transfers donations made to the mosque to the UAE through his business which he registered to me. Also they say that we as Muslims must not appear to have the same domestic violence problems as the kafir and so our problems must be settled within our communities and always according to Sharia Law.. But my husband continued to threaten me with a gun, he has a trunk full of new AK's and often said he would use one on me if I try to run away. He put in some kind of a gadget on the telephone so he said he would know if I ever called the authorities.I am truly scared of him. He now says we must soon return to the Middle East so that he can do his duty for Allah by helping out with Jihad but will not give me details. What can I do?I do not want to go back there again I would rather stay in Norcross (Atlanta).
The other problem is that I am worried he will either take the children with him when and if he leaves but in either scenario there will be no child support and most certainly no money for me.
Please help with advice if you can because I am running out of options.
Badreya Al-Mariri
Norcross GA