Because what else would serve as a reasonable punishment for a girl seeing the light and marrying a non-Muslim?

Oh, apparently pouring acid on her, strangling her, then throwing her into the Ganges Canal, all in the name of Muhammad (peace be upon his rotting corpse.)

In an alleged attempted “honour killing”, a man poured acid on his daughter and threw her into a canal for planning to marry a man from another religion Tuesday, police said. The girl is in critical condition in hospital.Gulistan, 18, daughter of Asghar Ali of Charaura village in Bulandshahr district, 350 km from Lucknow, fell in love with Ravinder, 20, who ran a medical store in the village and often came to their house to deliver medicines.

The couple eloped 10 days back but were traced to Delhi and Gulistan was taken back to the village. Her parents then pretended that they had agreed to let her marry Ravinder and asked her to come with them to Delhi to buy clothes for the marriage.

Under Sharia law, a Muslim man can marry whomever he pleases, but a Muslim woman can only marry a man of the same faith, lest she be made to look like Freddie Krueger by her father. Fortunately the girl lived, though I’m guessing she’ll be thinking twice before she goes to see her Hindu husband, Ravinder again.