Friday, November 16, 2007

Woman Suffers Horrific Torture in Denmark


According to this report posted at Western Resistance:-

A 19 year old woman managed Sunday evening to escape from her torturer, a Danish citizen of Lebanese background.

She had been held captive for 9 days in a shed in the Sydhavnen district of Copenhagen where she had been beaten with an electric cable and subjected to other acts of violence by her boyfriend, a 19 year old Danish citizen from Lebanon. Sunday afternoon she managed to break out of her prison, climbed a fence and broke into a store, where she found a telephone and called her family.

I will omit the details of her injuries which are quite horrific. Although the title of the post is "Muslim Tortures Woman For "Being Christian" the motivation for the attacks on this woman is not made clear. The source of this report is an article (in Danish) from Jyllands-Posten which I, unfortunately, don't understand.

The translation provided at Western Resistance only mentions:-

The violence has taken place over a period of one year, but has escalated drastically during the last month, according to the girl. The man threatened to kill her family if she reported him. Also, he has forbidden her to speak to her mother, because she is a Christian.
Presumably, the young woman is, or at least was, also a Christian. Her attacker is described as "a Danish citizen of Lebanese background". Since he objected to the young woman speaking to her mother because the mother was Christian, it is reasonable to assume that he is not a Christian.

The population of Lebanon is estimated to be 39% Christian and 59% Muslim so it is probable that the "boyfriend" is Muslim. We can still only guess as to why he tortured this young woman. Was he trying to get her to convert to Islam? Had she converted and then had second thoughts and wanted to leave Islam? Or perhaps there was some other reason not related to Islam - I don't know.

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