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August 25, 2003 01:27PM EDT [general.addtranslation] Download Article (PDF) [ insert language bar ]

Free Ayesha Akter

By Hamid Atuf

A Muslim woman is under arrest and the media is lying to us again.

Ayesha Akter, a Muslim woman, is in New York police custody, under arrest for defending herself from a violent attack. The police say Ayesha used a cleaver to kill a woman named Farida Begum. There is no information on Farida's religion, but some have said that she was a Jew. Akter was charged yesterday with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon. The Muslim community demands that Ayesha be freed.

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check your facts

Aug 25, 2003 01:44PM EDT

truth

A little research might have cleared things up for you.

"A woman with a history of mental illness allegedly hacked her elderly mother-in-law to death with a meat cleaver after the mother-in-law refused to give her rice, saying it would make the daughter-in-law fat, police said.

Ayesha Akter, 32, is undergoing psychiatric evaluation after she was arrested in connection with the attack on her mother-in-law, Farida Begum, with a meat cleaver about 7:40 p.m. Saturday. Begum was repeatedly hit in the head, chest and legs and lost a finger in the savage assault, police said."

That's in today's Newsday. Sort of puts a different spin on your story, eh?

Stop the opression!!

Aug 25, 2003 06:54PM EDT

shaik yerbutti

Just another example in a long list of of racism and oppression by the Great Satan Amerika against an innocent muslim woman simply exercising her rights under Allah (PBUH) to murder a jew.

the internal life of the right

Aug 25, 2003 07:04PM EDT

imc moderator

Post like the one immediately above by the "Sheik" are in fact posted from the same IP address as the one above it – and the original comment. Strange, but true.

That's right: right-wing assholes post anti-Jewish comments here and then link them to other websites claiming Indymedia is anti-Semetic. This article is hidden - that means our readers aren't seeing it because it is trash.

So, best of luck with your pathetic pranks. These far-right nutjobs are arguing with themselves in a place that no one else can see. Losers.

Aug 25, 2003 10:10PM EDT

truth

Are you saying that my comment and the Sheik's comment are from the same IP? That's pretty much an outright lie. Prove it to me.

RE: the internal life of the right

Aug 26, 2003 11:29AM EDT

Oblong

Hey, imc moderator:

That second comment is pretty damn obviously a JOKE. Leave it to the loony left to have absolutely no sense of humor.

This website is a joke too, but not a funny one.

The REAL STORY

Aug 26, 2003 11:58AM EDT

Informed citizen of the world

A woman with a history of mental illness allegedly hacked her elderly mother-in-law to death with a meat cleaver after the mother-in-law refused to give her rice, saying it would make the daughter-in-law fat, police said.

Ayesha Akter, 32, is undergoing psychiatric evaluation after she was arrested in connection with the attack on her mother-in-law, Farida Begum, with a meat cleaver about 7:40 p.m. Saturday. Begum was repeatedly hit in the head, chest and legs and lost a finger in the savage assault, police said.