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October 30, 2009 10:22 AM

Muslim Wife Slashed Husband's Neck Over Booze, Pork and Miniskirts, Say Prosecutors

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NEW YORK (CBS/AP) Prosecutors in New York say a devoutly religious Muslim woman, Rabia Sarwar, slashed her husband's neck after he introduced her to booze, pork, and miniskirts.

Sarwar's defense lawyer says his client was "emotionally abused" and forced to violate her religious beliefs.

Sarwar is free on bail after appearing in a Staten Island court Thursday on attempted murder and other charges.

Her lawyer, Joe Licitra, said Sarwar's husband "got her to drink alcohol, eat pork" and wear clothing that violated her Muslim beliefs.

Sheikh "Eddie" Naseem, who has surface wounds on his neck, face and hands, said his wife needs psychological help. Licitra said Sarwar was previously treated for depression.

Naseem told the New York Post that Sarwar, a native of Pakistan, was having a hard time adjusting to American culture.

Said Naseem: "There was no gun pointed to her head to do these things."


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by krisd999-2009 November 2, 2009 4:21 AM EST
It was HALOWEEN people! They fear alcohol, pork and miniskirts. Oh, the horor! That's how mislims celebrate HALOWEEN! She just thought a little slashing would complete the celebration.
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by rsmik November 2, 2009 1:49 AM EST
what's good for the goose is good for the gander
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by Quranist November 2, 2009 1:26 AM EST
Did the Quran really say that the Gospel and the Torah have been corrupted and abrogated as claimed by the Sunni and Shia sects?

What does the Quran say about the Torah and Gospel and Jesus:

What does the Quran say about freedom of religion and faith?

What does the Quran say about war and fighting?

http://iran.whyweprotest.net/off-topic/1565-collapse-sunni-shia-koranist-rise.html

Real Islam is only Quran!

And finally, whats this nonsense about slashing throats for eating pork and drinking alcohol and wearing miniskirts? This is classic sectarian nonsense and has nothing to do with the Quran. These sects follow oral traditions they say is from the prophet and have followed these traditions and threw the Quran behind their backs. This is what the Israelites have done with their Talmud(Judaic oral traditions) and they then abrogated many of the teachings of the Torah. Jesus condemned the Talmud in Mark 7 and so did the Quran. Now it seems the Muslims travelled the same road.
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by legacyABQ2 November 2, 2009 9:18 AM EST
who cares?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?
by Quranist November 2, 2009 1:13 AM EST
With the collapse of Ja'far Al Sadiq's empire in Iran and Ibn Hanbal's slow demise in Saudi Arabia, the tide is turning and the fictitous sects that emerged during the Abbasid Empire knows as the Sunni and Shia sects and others who follow man made revelations known as hadiths are slowly collapsing. Malik's Empire in Sudan is collapsing and Abu Hanifa's Empire in Pakistan is turning upside down. The so called Islamic states have proven to be ideologically obsolete and in the wrong side of history. The sects are on life support and the Koranist will take over. So who are the Koranist?

The Koranist believe only the Koran should speak for Islam.

WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ISLAM AND TODAY'S PRACTICES?


In comparing the teachings of Islam as derived from the Book of God to the practices taught and enforced by the popular Sunni and Shia faiths (1.2 Bn followers), we find that the list is quite extensive, with some of the highlights as follows:

In Islam, the requirement to be a Muslim is to simply accept and live according to the ?Straight Path? (6:151-153), Vs. the Sunni or Shia 5-pillars which come from unauthorized books?

In Islam, abolishing Slavery is taught to be an act of righteousness (90:12-13), Vs. Sunni and Shia teachings which encourages slavery under war?

In Islam, women are never forbidden from praying or fasting during Menstruation (2:222), nor is there a specific dress code (i.e. the Headscarf) imposed on them beyond modesty, Vs. the Sunni and Shia which teach the undermining of women and forcing them to cover their hair and avoid praying or fasting at certain times...

In Islam, a man or women may leave a Will, after settlement of debt (4:12), Vs. Sunnis who refuse to accept wills if there are any direct descendants...

In Islam, Monogamy is the basis for normal relationships, while polygamy is only allowed in cases involving marrying the mothers of orphans under the man?s guardianship (4:3), Vs. Sunnis where a man may be a polygamist simply if he can afford to, and Shia which allow sex for pleasure (Mut?a)...

In Islam, Divorce is enforceable only after a two-phase period, and it may be made nullified if the couple reconcile before the end of this period (65:1, 65:4), Vs. Sunni teachings that destroy families by allowing a divorce to occur on the spot with no waiting period and no nullification...

In Islam, Thieves do not have their hands cut-off, but are made to work until they return that which is stolen (12:76), Vs. Sunni and Shia teachings which brutally amputate the hands causing disability...

In Islam, no one is allowed to be killed or Stoned for adultery (24:2), Vs. Sunni and Shia laws of stoning married adulterers to death...

In Islam, absolute Freedom of Faith is allowed (2:256, 10:99; 18:29; 88:21-22), Vs. Sunni and Shia requiring apostates to be killed and rejecting the practice of other faiths...

In Islam, people are acknowledged as being diverse and each is to be respected for his/her level of spiritual growth. A Submitter ?Muslim? must work to attain the status of Faithful ?Mumin? (49:14), Vs. Sunni and Shia teachings that all followers of their religion must think, act, and even look the same (cult syndrome)...

In Islam, War can only be declared in cases of self-defence - no offensives (2:190), Vs. Sunni and Shia teachings allowing raids and attacks on any people who are considered non-Muslim by their standards...

In Islam, Pilgrimage is a centre for gathering of nations and for all to witness the benefits of being together (22:27-28), Vs. Sunni and Shia bringing in polytheistic rituals and superstition (touching of black stone, circling 7 times, etc..)...

In Islam, a Year is a luni-solar count made of 365-days (17:12, 9:36), with all the seasons fitting-in-place Vs. Sunnis teaching it to be a lunar one based on 354 days which creates confusion of seasons and time?

In Islam, males and females are not required to be Circumcised (32:7), Vs. Sunni and Shia teachings requiring all males to be circumcised and females in some cases...

In Islam, music, statues, gold and silk are all Lawful(7:32-33, 16:116), Vs. Sunni beliefs forbidding silk & gold for men, and forbidding music & statues for all...

In Islam, rule of Government is under the constitution of the Qur'an through consultation and free-speech (5:48, 42:38). Vs. Sunni teachings which allow the rise of dictators or monarchs, and Shia teachings which uphold self-appointed religious leaders based on genealogy.

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by stryker54 November 1, 2009 10:49 PM EST
To me it's just another Bobbitt type crime where a woman can do something than well, he caused me to do this. Woman cry abuse all the time now and the men get convicted before there is even a judge.
Send this witch back to her country she likes it so well. He might not of been the perfect husband, but I doubt there was any abuse, just a woman that wanted to stay with her beliefs that meant harming someone that didn't believe the way she did. SAD
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by robinspp November 1, 2009 7:39 PM EST
Love your neighbor as you love yourself, including your enemy, that was what said by Jesus. He never told to hate someone. Hatred is like spiting against the wind, it comes straight on your face.
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by missme4 November 1, 2009 9:17 PM EST
"Love your neighbor as you love yourself"

I try to love my neighbor when her husband isn't home.
by legacyABQ2 November 2, 2009 9:19 AM EST
heeee heeee heehehehehehehehee yeah baby
by wyodutch November 1, 2009 5:41 PM EST
Put her on the next plane back to Pakistan.
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America has enough morons without importing them from the Third World.
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by androidboy November 1, 2009 4:44 PM EST
"She didn't have a gun to her head." Like she needed one. One thing that Islam and it's cousins share is the rule that a wife is subject to her husband. If he told her to kill a goat she'd do that too. She's a good muslim. This is what happens when you participate in a belief system where a supreme being tells people to kill every living thing in a city except for the virgins...they get to become your new wives! OOOPS! That's Judaism and Christianity, not Islam. Well, I'm fairly certain that there's some pointless violence in the Qur'an as well.
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by natdef_1 November 2, 2009 3:25 AM EST
Filbert, anyone?
by Virgil-1 November 1, 2009 1:56 PM EST
So much for another false religion!
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by natdef_1 November 1, 2009 10:21 AM EST
These folks seem to find ANY justification for killing each other...it's a wonder that there are still so many of them out there.
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by bobnjersey November 1, 2009 12:10 AM EDT
[booze, pork, and miniskirts]

c'mon ... everyone knows this combination always leads to trouble.

she really should have known better.
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by gboyd41 October 31, 2009 11:49 PM EDT
Here is an idea-GO HOME.
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by hmmIwonder October 31, 2009 8:19 PM EDT
If love is to wish others well, then slashing someone's neck means she has no love. How does she come to have no love in her is the question.
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by legacyABQ2 November 2, 2009 9:21 AM EST
I can answer that question.

RELIGION
by bann65 October 31, 2009 2:25 PM EDT
This muslim religion, which I don't even call a religion, IS whacked! You're right! We should have had missionaries to these people YEARS ago. They were forgotten about, obviously. Let's pray they change, please.
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by hailesion November 1, 2009 12:39 PM EST
Her husband with a name like "Eddie" may very well be a christian. Haven't heard of Muslims with that name. So it could very well be that the fellow whose throat she slashed was a Christian. This probably is precisely what they would do to missionaries who feel arrogant enough to want to enter Pakistan to try to convert them. I wonder if the marriage was for a green card or something like that.
by androidboy November 1, 2009 5:06 PM EST
I don't think Christianity is a religion either. Jesus gets bookended buy the old testament on one side and Paul on the other. I feel for Jesus. The belief system gets named after him, but it's still all about the ten commandments and what Paul told ya to do.
by rf35 November 2, 2009 6:09 AM EST
"Sheikh" is an Islamic form of polite address, often used in referring to the patriarch of a family or clan. He may have "Westernized" his first name in order to make pronunciation easier for those he interacted with. However, there is little doubt that he is Muslim. A liberal Muslim, but still Muslim. It is doubtful this woman would have married him if he were not. As a Pakistani immigrant, she may not be used to the freedom offered to non-Muslim women, but she must have chosen to marry this man. Traditional marriages in Islamic culture are more like business transactions, with the daughter being sold to the husband. But her father would certainly not have sold her to someone who was not a devout Muslim as it could be seen as having a negative impact on his (the father's) family honor.
by bubbadubba October 30, 2009 6:25 PM EDT
WOW! Local domestic case on CBS news.
This is what we get for not electing war mongers as President and Vice President, a more peaceful world without all those horrible daily headlines.
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by erasmus111 October 30, 2009 6:12 PM EDT
by SusanStoHelit October 30, 2009 5:36 PM EDT
We know the police have said there was NEVER a domestic violence nor any other type of call to their residence.


Which means absolutely nothing at all. Just because nothing has been reported, doesn't meant there wasn't any violence.


"You can make up a story to pretend there was violence and threats - but there is absolutely nothing to say so."


I haven't made up anything. You have.


"Why do you hate the husband so much as to make up this story when even the wife who tried to kill him doesn't say so?"


Did I say that I hated the husband? If you read the story, you would realize that there hasn't been much of anything said. She may not have said so, but she also didn't say there wasn't.


Susan, may I make a suggestion? Perhaps you should READ the story again, and also read my post AGAIN. The story gives very little facts if any at all, which is usually the case. And Susan, do you know what "could have" means? I said, "he could have". My whole point is that there are no real facts here. I am not for the woman or the man. I am just stating that nothing has really been said, and that we don't know what went on, BECAUSE WE WEREN'T THERE.


But do you know what I do hate Susan? I hate it when people put words in my mouth. I don't like people saying that I said something that I didn't say. Try reading a little more carefully.
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by erasmus111 October 30, 2009 6:23 PM EDT
Maybe he got her drunk and then fed her the pork and got her to put on the miniskirt. Maybe he put the skirt on her while she was drunk. Maybe she didn't know what she was doing and when she sobered up, she realized what had happened.

There are all kinds of things that COULD HAVE happened. And I'm not about to come to any final conclusions based on this piddle ass story until there are more FACTS.
by HeavyDennis November 1, 2009 10:56 PM EST
Now, now... children, do you want me to pull thes car over!?
by erasmus111 November 2, 2009 12:01 AM EST
by HeavyDennis November 1, 2009 10:56 PM EST
Now, now... children, do you want me to pull thes car over!?


: P
by ObamaYoMama October 30, 2009 5:48 PM EDT
This whole religion is wacked!
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by jwesel1 October 31, 2009 11:39 PM EDT
All she is doing is protect her modesty and must be commended.
by ToolMangler1 November 1, 2009 6:23 PM EST
We would commend her wish to observe her religion if the consequense of that action did not harm or interfere with anybody else. The moment she cut him, she was over the line and 100% wrong,, No excuses... (except physical self defense)
by legacyABQ2 November 2, 2009 9:24 AM EST
Precisely Mangler!

Keep it to oneself and people can believe/worship whatever they want.
Slah a neck, needless to say u crossed the line
by wdh3007 October 30, 2009 5:45 PM EDT
Why did they single out the "muslim" part of this story probably becuase they felt like they knew how some of these people are and they tried to sterotype or profile her accoriding to her religion. Now of course that sounds wrong and usually when something sounds wrong it is but does that answer that question.
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by mecanik-2009 October 30, 2009 5:38 PM EDT
I almost think there is some genetic problem with these people. Some twisted mental problem that creates this kind of thinking. It may be hundreds of years before we can civilize these people. Maybe we can breed the animal out of them and make them more human someday
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by DawnBroderick40 October 30, 2009 5:40 PM EDT
Oh be careful. Those who placate the murderous muslims will come and get you on here. You can bash anyone you want on here unless they are g.a.y, muslim or black. Otherwise, they'll ban you.
by androidboy November 1, 2009 5:00 PM EST
The problem might seem genetic because it runs in families. The problem is ideological. It comes from being indoctrinated into a rigid belief system. There's no flex, so people just stress until they snap. Ever hear of some evangelical preacher getting killed by his wife? It's the same thing.
by erasmus111 October 30, 2009 5:30 PM EDT
Said Naseem: "There was no gun pointed to her head to do these things."



How do we know? Just because he says so? Do we believe her or him?

We don't know that he didn't force her.

He could have been cooking the food and didn't tell her it was pork. He could have given her something to drink and didn't tell her it was booze. As for the miniskirt and the other things, he may not have held a gun to her head,but he most certainly could have threatened her in other ways.

He should consider himself lucky he's still living. : )
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by SusanStoHelit October 30, 2009 5:36 PM EDT
We know he said so - and he's not accused of any violence by the wife. We know the police have said there was NEVER a domestic violence nor any other type of call to their residence.

You can make up a story to pretend there was violence and threats - but there is absolutely nothing to say so. Why do you hate the husband so much as to make up this story when even the wife who tried to kill him doesn't say so?
by SusanStoHelit October 30, 2009 5:38 PM EDT
Yeah, right - and he told her the miniskirt was actually a burqua? Come on now. She's not alleging anything remotely like that.

She could have simply said No. Had he tried to force her, the police would have been on her side in a heartbeat.
by armyoftwelve October 31, 2009 11:25 PM EDT
You don't stab someone in the neck cause they gave you pork, booze or a miniskirt or all three. It might be okay to stab someone if they stabbed you first, but the article doesn't say that HE stabed her....

You stab people if your religion tends to make people violent and irrational.........
by erasmus111 November 1, 2009 11:35 AM EST
by armyoftwelve October 31, 2009 11:25 PM EDT
You don't stab someone in the neck cause they gave you pork, booze or a miniskirt or all three. It might be okay to stab someone if they stabbed you first, but the article doesn't say that HE stabed her....



Did someone say that it was okay to stab him?
by armyoftwelve November 1, 2009 2:10 PM EST
Did someone say that it was okay to stab him?
by erasmus111 November 1, 2009 11:35 AM

YOU said that he should consider himself lucky to be living. Sounds to me like you're rationalizing a stabbing. There is no excuse for that PERIOD.
by erasmus111 November 1, 2009 3:37 PM EST
by armyoftwelve November 1, 2009 2:10 PM EST
Did someone say that it was okay to stab him?
by erasmus111 November 1, 2009 11:35 AM

YOU said that he should consider himself lucky to be living. Sounds to me like you're rationalizing a stabbing. There is no excuse for that PERIOD.


I wasn't rationalizing anything. You don't think he should consider himself lucky that he's still living? She could have killed him.


Whenever there is a story, there are so little facts and so much speculating. When people speculate one way, I will then speculate the other way, saying that it could have been this way or that.

On another story, someone said that she violated his trust for stabbing him while he was sleeping. That person thought that was just awful, but what about the fact that he violated her trust by lying about who he really was. He portrayed himself as something other than he was. I'm not trying to justify the stabbing, I'm talking about the violation of trust.

And about the fact that she stabbed him while he was sleeping? If she was concerned about her safety, it would be logical that would be the best time to do it. Right or wrong.
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