Afghan child bride tortured for six months

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An Afghan child bride is recovering in hospital after being held captive and tortured for six months by her husband's family.

While her case is extreme, it is still often acceptable in Afghan culture for a husband to hit his wife.

Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith reports from Kabul.

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[coolbuddydude1]

A Soldier from the Afghan National Army tortures his wife.

"the New Free Afghanistan"

[mytime103]

this will never stop.This is how the ppl in these countries treat there own kind.And we are letting ppl with this mind set move to western countries and carry on with there culture as if they are still in there own lands.

[mytime103]

@ServantOfAllah567 It is the way ppl who follow Islam behave in there countries.Even in britain we have honour killings.

[TheGreatWhiteTimmy]

Ripped off fingernails??? Fuck

[1000heaven]

horrified... how people can be so evil??? poor girl - hope the best for her.

[masterplumberjimmy]

just shows there is noone worth saving there. Kill em all and let the devil deal with them. No more lives should be wasted on trying to save those people. Wake up America, stop sending our youth to fight for useless causes.STOP BEING THE WORLD POLICE.

[lexdiamonds1990]

@selfworm Not every muslim country is Afghanistan. In fact, there are PLENTY of other muslim nations such as Turkey, Lebanon, Tunisia and Morocco, which are far more secular and where women's rights have significantly advanced. You keep talking about the wrongs of Islam when instead you SHOULD be referring to the wrongs within individual cultures. Islam and humanist rights can and does coexist in many places, you're just to ignorant to know where to properly point your finger of blame.

[smellycat389]

horrible

[selfworm]

"there are fundamentalist Christians and Jews ..." Those religions' scriptures are equally bad. But the difference is that secularism has eroded away these types of values in MOST (not all) of Christianity, but this is not the case with Islam today. But regardless, THE WRONGS OF OTHER RELIGIONS DO NOT EXCUSE THE WRONGS OF ISLAM.

There have been female leaders in many sexist cultures throughout history, but they were still sexist. So pointing to some token women proves nothing.

[pics4roisin]

I don't think this is just a Taliban thing, this seems to run deep in Afghan tribal culture, and I don't see how the west can stamp out these deeply entrenched cultural traditions. This must come from within, the men AND women don't seem to want to tackle them.