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and get beaten savagely for it.
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I guess that YOU don't really know how things work over there. All marriages are arranged by families. Families pair up their children and the MATRIARCHS do the matchmaking.
"Done deals" are even arranged when children are born. Neither males nor females have any choice when it comes to marriage. That's been the custom WAY before Islam, Christianity or even Judaism.
The families are around each other all the time and if a woman got beaten up by her husband there would be HELL to pay.
Women marry into FAMILIES; they don't just "marry a guy." Women move into the husband's FAMILY HOME. She sleeps with the other women, after an appropriate "honeymoon time" (whatever that may be).
Women DO hold the family honor in their behavior and if HER HUSBAND beat her HIS family would be in DEEP DO-DO.
There WOULD be personal, family and tribal retribution.
The person who beat her would be "beaten savagely for it." The culture, much as you may loathe it, does NOT hate their women and does not beat their women for their misdemeanors.
Of course, there are aholes in every culture so I am sure that there IS one ahole who WANTS to beat his wife. The wife's protection would probably come from her mother-in-law and the entire family would give the husband holy heck for beating his wife.
The husband's family would lose MUCH honor having a beaten-up wife showing up with the rest of the family women (grandmothers, aunts, sisters, cousins, female in-laws, etc.).
Please try not to assume ALL HATEFUL things about a culture that you don't care for.
REMEMBER, their culture came WAY, WAY before their faith.
God bless you and yours.
The topic was Europe and whether women are under pressure to wear veils/burqa’s and the answer is of course they are.