The brother of the Muslim actress Afshan Azad, who played Padma Patil in the “Harry Potter” films, was sentenced to six months in prison Thursday for beating his sister after he heard her talking to her Hindu boyfriend.

Ashraf Azad, 28, called his sister a “prostitute” and screamed ''Marry a Muslim or you die!''

during a three-hour beating, during which, the actress said in a Manchester, England court, she feared for her life.

Afshan Azad, 21, was punched, strangled, and dragged by her hair by her brother, but she still pleaded for the judge’s leniency during the sentencing hearing, and asked he not be jailed.

Judge Roger Thomas would not hear of it, noting ''The background to this offense lies in the concern that you, and perhaps other family members, had about Afshan's relationship with a young man who was not of the Islamic faith.''

The judge also pointed out the “persistent attack was accompanied by serious and very hurtful abuse and threats. It must have been a miserable and frightening experience for your sister.”

''This is a sentence that is designed to punish you for what you did and also to send out a clear message to others that domestic violence involving circumstances such as have arisen here cannot be tolerated,” the judge said.

Afshan Azad’s family members recounted in court a harrowing night in which her father and mother also called her names, made threats and started making plans to give her away in an arranged marriage to a Muslim man in Bangladesh.

"I'm going to kill you. I'm actually going to kill you," the brother said, according to court testimony. He was then heard shouting "Where are the knives?"

Apparenty his own wife had already hidden them.

"She was told she had to marry a Muslim or you die," prosecutor Richard Vardon said.

Afshan Azad snuck out a window the next morning.

"She realized she would have to leave and felt she could not live any longer in that environment," Vardon said.

http://www.foxnews.com//entertainment/2011/01/21/harry-potter-actress-afshan-azads-brother-sentenced-honor-beating/?test=faces#

Yup, Muslims are so peacefun and tolerant of others.

at least he didn't kill her...he must of been having a good day till then...

does his reason make his religion more to blame or does it point to his natural tendency towards violence?

check the US domestic abuse numbers lately, and do those numbers even reflect what RELIGION those abusers are....?????

He would have if his wife didn't hide the knives!

his 'muslim' wife?

i think it points to a male dominated aspects of islam....

possibly, similar to the abuse statistics here,, regarding gender propensity,,,

no... they don't keep accurate stats on the woman they kill/beat.
it's not an important detail to them

It doesn't say if his wife is Muslim. Muslim men are allowed to marry any religion where women can only marry a Muslim.

Check this out, I wish I knew how to post pictures in the forums.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Talibanbeating.jpg

Ya! How did you do that?

Like I have been saying, don't preach tolerance for a religion you know nothing about. Read their bible and see if they deserve tolerance.

Frankly it takes an Ignorant Shiithead to think tolerance like respect is just given out. There has to be reciprocity and if they are not willing to tolerate us by the tenants of their faith then they deserve neither tolerance or respect.

And I know Muslims who now are questioning their faith a lot these days. If you love your daughters don't go Muslim! And if I was dating a woman who was from a Muslim background and her family threatened her to marry Muslim or die, well, you would hear about what happened on the news becasue I would hurt some folks seriously bad and I would likewise go to their temple and get real vicious on the clerics! Fuque the police, when someone I care about is threatened the police are the easy way out for those poor bastards!

this only works at websites, no where else
right click on the mouse and click copy img location
then type the brackets [], img inside the brackets - 2 sets of brackets, for the front and rear of the image location and the rear bracket gets a /img.

it should look like this, WITH NO * IN IT

[*img][*/img]

then just paste the image location in between them

Damn didn't work.

this is right, but it is a url, not the picture

at the website, right click on the picture, then copy the image location...

i changed it to the image location

Yay! I got it!