Woman 'kept daughters-in-law as slaves

Well yeah, that's just the way it is in the Islamic world, where a woman's worth is at best half that of a man. This is another aspect of Islamic polygamy where second, third and fourth wives may become nothing more than household domestics.

What we are seeing here is another example of life under Sharia.

FROM THE DAILYMAIL.CO.UK:

Woman 'kept daughters-in-law as slaves and forced one to work on sewing machine night and day for 13 years'
By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 3:15 PM on 31st March 2009

'Totally dominating': Naseebah Bibi, pictured outside Preston Crown Court, is accused of keeping her sons' wives as prisoners in her Blackburn home
A cruel mother-in-law treated her sons' wives as 'slaves and dogs' and made one of them work on a sewing machine day and night for 13 years, a court heard today.
The three women came to the UK from Pakistan as part of arranged marriages and were allegedly kept as prisoners in the family house in Blackburn, Lancashire, against their will.

Preston Crown Court was told that Naseebah Bibi, 63, ruled the household with a regime of beatings and threats as she 'totally dominated' her victims.
One daughter-in-law was ordered to work on an industrial sewing machine from early in the morning to just before midnight every day as soon as she arrived at the house in 1993.

The prosecution said her ordeal only ended in 2006 when her three-year-son told nursery staff that his grandmother was the cause of bruising on his mother's hands.
Mother-of-five Bibi is alleged to have falsely imprisoned Nagina Akhtar between 1993 and 2006, Tazeem Akhtar from 2001 to 2003 and Nisbah Akhtar between 2005 and 2007. Bibi's son denies Nadeem Akhtar falsely imprisoning his wife Nisbah between 2005 and 2007.

Philip Boyd, prosecuting, said all three women had high expectations of a happy family life in England when they married their first cousins in Pakistan, but instead on their arrival they were abused and allowed no contact with the outside world.
He said: 'Tazeem Akhtar came expecting to live with her husband and have children, something she had dreamed of. Her dream was doomed.'
On her first day in Blackburn she learned that her husband, Nahim, already had a partner - a white woman - and two children.
Mr Boyd said: 'He had no intention of living as her husband. He effectively had his own life.

'She was treated like a slave. She was ignored by her husband and exploited by her mother-in-law.'

In her 18 months at the address - two houses converted into one - she was only allowed to leave the property once to visit a relative.
Sporadic phone calls were monitored by Bibi, she was not permitted to register with a doctor and her passport and travel documents were taken from her, Mr Boyd said.

Her daily routine was 'gruelling' as she was made to do all the housework for the family and was even forced to wash all clothes by hand in cold water despite the presence of a washing machine.
'If Tazeem disobeyed, she was beaten, screamed at and sworn at,' Mr Boyd told the jury.
Bibi would allegedly strike her on the arms and legs with a slipper and pull her hair, she only ate when given permission by Bibi and could only have one cup of tea per day.

In 2003 Bibi took Tazeem for a 'holiday' to Pakistan but instead she was effectively 'dumped' in the country and was unable to leave because her visa had expired.
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