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| Original Title: | The Imam's Daughter ASIN B003LSTJVO |
| Edition Language: | English |
Hannah Shah
Kindle Edition | Pages: 289 pages Rating: 4.12 | 1803 Users | 192 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Imam's Daughter |
| Author | : | Hannah Shah |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 289 pages |
| Published | : | (first published 2009) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir |
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Hannah Shah is an Imam's daughter. She lived the life of a devout Muslim in a family of Pakistani Muslims in England, but behind the front door, she was a caged butterfly. For many years, her father abused her in the cellar of their home. At sixteen, she discovered a plan to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage, and she gathered the courage to run away. Relentlessly hunted by her angry father and brothers, who were intent on executing an 'honor' killing, she moved from house to house in perpetual fear to escape them. Over time, she converted to Christianity and was able to live and marry as she wished. Hannah found the courage to live her live free from shame, free from religious intolerance, and free from the abuse that haunted her childhood. This is a remarkable true story of how a young girl escaped a life of torture ... a story you won't forget.Rating Out Of Books The Imam's Daughter
Ratings: 4.12 From 1803 Users | 192 ReviewsCriticism Out Of Books The Imam's Daughter
My father was the Imam; my father was the mosque. The world Hannah was born into meant her father has absolute power over nearly everyone, especially his family. A sometimes dark and brutal tale, the book is overwhelmingly a tribute the resilience of one womans soul. Raped by her father from the age of five, Hannah Shah lived in a childs pretend world to escape the horrors of her home. With imaginary Loneliness Birds from heaven coming to her rescue, she was able to survive beatings, rape, andThis is the true story about a Pakistani Muslim girl growing up in Great Britain. Hannan Shah is probably one of the bravest young women I know and all the more so because of her Muslim background. She grew up in a household where her father, the spiritual leader of the community, begins raping and beating her in the basement at the tender age of 5, and continues to do so until she runs away from home at the age of 16. She meets up with a network of British families who hide her to prevent her
A little girl that suffered all her childhood, she was always coerced to obey rules that she did not even approve of , to live the dull despondent life under the dictation of her dad. She despised her life in every way. Her dad always made her feel like a worthless daughter that only deserved to be punished using the most appalling abusive methods. She had some skills in writing and it is considered an attainment to finish every verse of the Quran her dad ignored all those valuable traits of her
This was a hard book to read and made me angry in some parts. The story was very inspiring and shows how the resilience of the human spirit and God's grace can help but a life back together. There were also regular people who were angels in this young girls life.
This one was heart-breaking, but I couldn't stop reading it! Kudos to the author for speaking out, especially on the subject matter and of a culture that most of us don't understand.
I cannot be silent about what happened to me, and what is still happening to countless other young girls and women today. Of course, my own experiences were made worse by the fact that my father was a particularly abusive man. In that respect, his religion was irrelevant. But it is also true that some of the abuse I suffered was made all the more damaging because it was tolerated silently by my family and my community, in as much as they knew about it. This was very much a result of my culture
True, shocking incident of a young Pakistani girl beaten up and abused by her father, a local Imam of East Street, Birmingham, England, with her mother and a big family of 3 brothers and 2 sisters as onlookers. Not even her mother tries to protect her, even in the feeblest of ways. The abuse starts at the age of 5, lasts till 16 or so, at which age she escapes with the help of her university teacher and social workers. She then converts to Christianity, and is a marked target by her community.
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