Abdul Baqi, 22, thought his family would help him get married. Instead, his father and four brothers accused him of violating Islamic values and removed his eyes to punish him.

The cruelty of Islamic hardliners knows no boundaries. You violate Islamic law, you could be stoned to death, thrown from a building, caned, honor-killed, and in this case:

One of my brothers removed my eyeball using a tea spoon. Then my father took the knife and cut it as it was hanging on my face..One of them [brothers] stepped on my head to make sure I that I do not move and others removed my second eye

They blinded Baqi because they thought he had violated Islamic law for talking to a girl on the phone. They have ties to the Taliban “and are very conservative.”

His brothers had warned him that speaking to a girl over the phone was an un-Islamic act and that he was an infidel.

Abdul Baqi certainly learned a hard lesson in what it means if a young man crosses the sharia line. To think that Western liberals in Canada have the audacity to criticize use of the term “barbaric practices,” which was recently rejected by the Trudeau government; it referred to practices such as this.

The brother “went on to say that we are making a mistake by going to Afghanistan for jihad. ‘Actual Jihad is here in our house. The first jihad is here against this infidel.’ He was talking about me as I was bleeding from my wounds,” Baqi added.

“Man Blinded by Father, Brothers for Falling in Love,” by Mohammad Habibzada and Barakwal Myakhel, Voice of America, May 26, 2018: