Conservative Culture

Having marital problems? Become Muslim and all your problems will be solved. 1. Your wife gives you problems and that “attitude”? Just beat them and you follow Allah correctly. 2. If you get tired of the nagging of one then have wife number 2, 3, 4 ready to give you support and comfort. Yes, the religion of peace. Does this mean the  rantings of the liberals of their respect for Islam mean they support wife beating? Inquiring minds want to know.

[News By Us] Last month, during a Saudi television show, Muslim author and religious leader Muhammad Al-Arifi advised young Muslim men how to deal with their new wives. Apparently in the shadow of Mecca, it is perfectly acceptable to beat your wife as long as you do not hit her in the face, so as not to “make her face ugly.”

Al-Arifi said: “Beating in the face is forbidden, even when it comes to animals. Even if you want your camel or donkey to start walking, you are not allowed to beat it in the face. If this is true for animals, it is all the more true when it comes to humans. So beatings should be light and not in the face.”

Al-Arifi went on to admonish the young would-be grooms: “If he beats her, the beatings must be light and must not make her face ugly. He must beat her where it will not leave marks. He should not beat her on the hand…He should beat her in some places where it will not cause any damage.  He should not beat her like he would beat an animal or a child–slapping them left and right.”

While this Muslim cleric’s words may be shocking to those of us who live in the civilized world, his advice is not new to the Muslim world.

In 2004 on Qatar television, a Muslim cleric declared the Quran to be an instructional book on how Muslim men should discipline their wives. “He said: We must know that [wife] beating is a punishment in Islamic religious law. No one should deny this because this was permitted by the Creator of Man, and because when you purchase an electric appliance or a car you get instructions–a catalogue, explaining how to use it. The Creator of Man has sent down this book [the Quran] in order to show which ways he must choose.”

He went on to explain that there are three types of women who must be beaten.

“[The Quran says:] ‘and beat them.’ This verse is of a wondrous nature. There are three types of women with whom a man cannot live unless he carries a rod on his shoulder. The first type is a girl who was brought up this way. Her parents ask her to go to school and she doesn’t–they beat her. ‘Eat’–’I don’t want to’–they beat her. So she became accustomed to beatings; she was brought up that way. We pray Allah will help her husband later. He will only get along with her if he practices wife beating.”

“The second type is a woman who is condescending toward her husband and ignores him. With her, too, only a rod will help. The third type is a twisted woman who will not obey her husband unless he oppresses her, beats her, uses force against her, and overpowers her with his voice.”

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