The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” — Qur’an 4:34
Now, there is no sanction for mutilation in Islam. The problem is that once the abuse is permitted, where to draw the line becomes a subjective matter.
“Horror torture with the kitchen knife! In Berlin in court: the merciless tormenter of women,” translated from “Horror-Folter mit dem Küchenmesser! In Berlin vor Gericht: Der Frauen-Quäler ohne Gnade,” Berliner Kurier, January 13, 2022 (thanks to Medforth):
With the last of her strength she reached the window – gagged, tied up, brutally mutilated. More than nine years after the fact, her ex-boyfriend is on trial.
It is about attempted murder in two cases – cruelly committed. The woman’s breasts and nose were cut off and her genital area disfigured. According to the prosecution, he wanted to let her daughter die of thirst.
Omid R. (54) in the dock: long beard, hair tied in a plait. Born in Iraq, his passport is Dutch. He stated IT technician as a profession.
He was with the Iranian Banafshe K. for a short time. She, then 36 years old and mother of a ten-year-old daughter, separated. Omid R. – convicted of violence against his ex-wife – retaliated, according to the indictment.
The public prosecutor: “He wanted to rob her of her attractiveness and her femininity.” He wanted to inflict severe suffering on her – out of jealousy and anger about the separation.
On the morning of October 30, 2012, according to the indictment, he broke into the Iranian woman’s apartment in Schöneberg, tied her up and gagged her, and wrapped her face with adhesive tape at mouth level.
Her daughter was also handcuffed and gagged. The girl was then imprisoned in another room when her mother was tortured to near death. R. should announce: “If I can’t have you, nobody should have you.”
R. is said to have thrown the woman, whose hands and feet were tied, on the bed and raped her. Then he took a sharp kitchen knife – “he first cut off her breasts, then the tip of the nose and finally the outer pubic area,” said the prosecutor.