Domestic violence in the Quran

Summer Hathout is a prosecutor in Los Angeles, an activist for women’s rights, and a Muslim. She denies that Islam promotes domestic violence, concluding in her short article:

To those of us who know Islam and the Quran, violence against women is so antithetical to the teachings of Islam that we look at those who use our religion against us as misguided, misinformed or malevolent.

On the other hand, Saudi television aired a talk show that discussed this issue. Scrolling three-fourths of the way down the link, the readers can see an Islamic scholar holding up sample rods that husbands may use to hit their wives.

The Koran clearly permits the scourging of "disobedient" wives... first the husband must talk, then he must deny his bed (which is already strange, for in most of the world, generally speaking of course, we the women, pretend to have headaches and might use the denial of our charms as a form of punishment)... Then when not even that works, the man may scourge.

The debate that's open to make the religion of peace and suicide bombing more palatble to the civilized world is only about how "hard" that scourging is to be.

Apparently, the closer the Koran was published to Mecca, the harder, the further, the more symbolic.

What is ironic is that most of the so-called reformers of the Koran (the uncorrupted word of god), those offering new and "softer" interpretations, are to be found writing in Judeo-Christian societies. In Darul Islam, they would be incarcerated for their re-interpretations.

They no longer say that the thieving hands should be chopped off as clearly set forth in the Koran, but "marked."

Where as Jews, Christians and even Constitutionalists are always and in my opinion rightfully looking for fresh interpretations of entire passages of their "holy" books, you will find Muslims debating the etymologies of single words.

That might work with foreigners who don't speak Arabic, but it is child's play for Muslim Apostate or Christian Arabs to put these new interpreters to shame.

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