Pakistani-American woman, Sania Khan, was murdered by her ex-husband and Netizens are shattered by the news. This South Asian-American would share her journey getting out of her abusive marriage, which led to her brutal murder by her ex-husband.
The Chicago-based TikToker talked about her experience with an abusive marriage and divorce. Getting out of an abusive relationship normally means escaping the violence. As per her friends, the TikToker’s divorce was finalized in May.
Unfortunately for Sania Khan, she still lost her life to the violence as she was murdered by her ex-husband. Netizens are heartbroken over this.
https://twitter.com/Ashy2098/status/1549768924580954112
i wonder if people who shunned sania khan and excommunicated her from the Muslim community are now sharing her posts and saying they knew her etc and that they’re so saddened by the news
support women while they’re still alive
— Iqra ✨ (@2hijabz) July 20, 2022
In a murder-suicide, her ex-husband, Raheel Ahmed, killed her and then committed suicide by shooting himself. Police found a suicide note near Ahmed’s body. His family had reported him missing from the Atlanta suburb.
More About Sania Khan
A photographer by profession, she worked for four years at Signal Centers, a local non-profit, where she was an advocate for low-income families.
The wedding photographer used to post her work in TikTok videos.
“Ever since I can remember, photography has been a huge part of my identity. My life truly began the day I purchased my first DSLR. I wouldn’t know it at the time but it would forever change me,” she wrote on her website.
However, post-divorce she largely talked about her abusive marriage and her journey of getting out. She documented events reflecting her abusive marriage. Her most recent uploads from June mainly concentrated on domestic abuse and her divorce.
She posted videos that talked about the abusive relationship with her ex-husband. Talking about how culturally she is ostracized as a divorced marriage, in one of the videos she wrote;
“Going through a divorce as a South Asian woman feels like you have failed at life sometimes.”
https://twitter.com/yusrar_/status/1549656371565432833
Lack of support from the South Asian community and her family is something Netizens highlighted.
RIP Sania Khan! She decided to end an abusive marriage but her ex-husband killed her.
Sadly she didn’t have support from her family or the society. Desi people care more about their reputation than their child’s happiness.
A divorced daughter is better than a dead daughter!💔 pic.twitter.com/0B1F8TtPnm
— Komal Shahid (@ArmedWithWords) July 20, 2022
The Sania Khan story is sitting heavy with me today, especially since my mom went through a divorce and I saw first hand how the community turned their backs on her without ever getting her side of the story. The woman is always to blame when there’s a divorce.
— zahara (@zzzzaracha) July 20, 2022
Despite being strong enough to look out for her safety despite cultural pressure to ‘make it work’, she still lost her life. Netizens called out the toxic trend in the South Asian community.
https://twitter.com/sabzixo/status/1549568408915550209
Some even asserted that this victim shaming is what led her ex-husband an abuser to feel justified in his ‘self-victimization’.
I’ve cut off family members for not holding their abusive men accountable and taken the side of the victims over family and it really isn’t that hard. To lecture an abuse victim about tolerating that behavior is disgusting. She’s dead after a year of posting about her struggles.
— jeff bezos doesn’t pay taxes (@kooshamaad) July 20, 2022
Sania Khan’s story is painful. May Allah give her peace in Jannah. Her murderer avoided accountability in this life but there is no escape from Allah’s justice. May we reflect deeply, honestly on how we ensure women’s safety and urgently change attitudes that enable such crimes
— Hassam (@HassamM_) July 20, 2022
