March for girl set alight after marriage refusal

[Anisa]

The family and friends of an 18-year-old girl, doused with petrol and set alight in broad daylight by the man she refused to marry, led a silent march through a Parisian suburb yesterday.

Chahrazad Belayni is currently fighting for her life in intensive care after suffering severe burns on 60 per cent of her body. She is being kept in an artificial coma.

On the morning of Nov 13, the Moroccan teenager was attacked while walking near her home in Neuilly-sur-Marne in the north eastern Seine-Saint-Denis suburb.

She knew her assailant. He was a former workmate of Pakistani origin who was angry about her refusal to marry him. The man and a suspected accomplice are on the run.

"This man asked her to marry him three times. He didn't understand her refusals and wouldn't leave her alone," said Sonia, a classmate. "Chahrazad was a beautiful young girl, very soignée and coquettish. He hurt her more than most by physically damaging her."

Several hundred people marched to the town hall yesterday behind a smiling portrait of Chahrazad and a banner calling for "justice, liberty, respect".

"We are here to denounce this horrible act," said the girl's brother, Abdelaziz, who criticised the lack of public outcry following the attack.

"We are here, not to call for revenge but that justice is done. We are here to denounce all violence against women: women must be able to say No or Yes"

The march was co-organised by Ni Putes ni Soumises (Neither *****s, nor Submissive), an association that tackles growing violence against women, mainly in France's suburbs.

"We are here to tell Chahrazad's parents that they are not alone in this fight. It is not just a family problem. It is a problem for the whole of France," said Fadela Amara, founding president of the organisation.

On Saturday, the group held another silent march in memory of Nadia, allegedly killed by her husband in the south western Parisian suburb of Val d'Oise a year ago. Her body has not been found.

Ni Putes ni Soumises has more than 6,000 members and 60 local committees campaigning against the repression of girls in largely Muslim housing estates, where the choice is either to adhere to strict clothing and behavioural codes or be considered to have loose morals. Yesterday's march was, it said, a "tribute to all the victims of machismo".

Ms Amara said the organisation was overwhelmed by calls for help from women suffering from violence or forced marriages, and asked the government to give more concrete help, notably through campaigns in schools.

The French minister for social cohesion and sexual equality, Catherine Vautrin, described the attack on Chahrazad as a "horrible illustration" of male violence against women, which claimed the lives of 163 women in France in 2003 and 2004.


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[Khalidz]

THIS IS SICK!! Wallah ta mosiba!

Some people wallah are just too weird! How can someone do this sort of thing!? haraam!!!!!!!

The man who did this needs to burn in hell for what he has done!!!!

[razrif]

How can this happen?
Evil

Thats is so evil.. the guy who did this seems like an animal!! more of my thoughts on this sort of honour killing later this evening..

They do it to their own, now they have started to do it to others...

poor girl....if she survives this, meskina she has to not only deal with the mental scars but the physical ones too. 'lay shafiha meskina' and give her the strength to deal with this horrific attack. Amen

[Ghazala]

Disgusting. Violence of this kind is the ultimate act of cowardice. Cannot fight men so abuse women. Sick SOB needs to be tracked down & set on fire live on Pakistani TV. Maybe that way, we can see progress in a country with domestic violence in a reported +80% of marriages. I have dealt with Pakistani women with burns, cuts, bruises after being battered by their psycho husband (or his FEMALE members of his family). That's not to mention sick sexual rituals which would make even Gary Glitter squirm. Cannot believe they are allowed to get away with this kind of barbaric behaviour outside of their own country where this is the norm.

Burn the b@stard thats what I say. In full public view as a deterrent to others

[aswad]

All this is very bad...I can't belive that still today happen this....
I read a book, time ago, about this.
The book speak about SUAD, a Cisgiordania woman, burned from his family..........
The book is this :



Cisgiordania, today.
A girl palestinese has learned since small to be treated as a slave: it is forced to work harshly it receives kicks and fists for every lack, she cannot even hope to have a pair of shoes, to go to school or to go out alone. Its destiny is that not to have any dignity; the only way for to escape to the brutality of her father is to attend the marriage, with a man that it will perhaps beat her less, and it won't perhaps do her feel less profit of a goat. Other roads of independence and autonomy are not there.
The blue prince seems arrival: he sees him every day of hidden from the balcony, while it is being prepared to go to auto to the job. It seems kind, polite, evolved: who knows that indeed the dream doesn't come true.
The beautiful neighbor makes to believe in the young girl to be in love of her and to want to ask her in wife to her father: for Suad it opens a world of happiness and wonder, in which is repeatedly granted to the boy, for not to risk to lose him.
Been pregnant, tragedy consumes him in few minutes: her brother-in-law, in representation of the family, it gives her fire with the acid, to wash the shame of which will speak bad the whole village.
Suad succeeds in surviving to the fire and graces to the help of a brave and stubborn woman, facente it departs of a western humanitarian organization, succeeds in reaching Switzerland: from there, under false name and always to risk of the life, today it tells her tragedy to the world, to hope that the guilty ones of the deaths of so many youths Arabic women are considered more heroic defenders of the honorableness family but assassins to be punished according to the law.