Posted on 04/18/2010 6:49:19 AM PDT by Loyalist
In a recent TV sermon, Egyptian cleric Mazen Al-Sarsawi extolled the virtues of corporal punishment to keep wives in check. Using stories from the early days of Islam to support his argument, Al-Sawsawi said that when there are marital problems, "the solution is to give the man a free hand to discipline his family members and to control them. By no means can a woman be the head [of the family]."
In the sermon, aired January 7, 2010 on the Egyptian Islamic channel Al-Nas TV, Al-Sawsawi recounted the story of Said Ibn Al-Musayyib, a 7th-century Muslim scholar known for his piety, who married off his daughter to his student, Abu Wada'. Al-Musayyib imparted to his son-in-law advice on how to deal with his new wife: 'If she bothers you – if something annoys you, or if you suspect anything – beat her on the spot with the rod. Break her head."
He continued with another story – that of Asmaa, the daughter of the Caliph Abu Bakr, whose husband Zubeir would tie her to his other wife by their hair and beat them both. When Asmaa complained to her father about this unfairness, ("he beat me black and blue, even though I didn't do a thing"), Abu Bakr's response was: "Go back to Zubeir. He is a good man, and he may become your husband in Paradise."
Al-Sarsawi blamed modern media – television and the movies – for fomenting "a revolution in domestic leadership," such that today "in many homes, the woman is the man. She tells her husband what to do, and he says: 'Yes, ma'am.'" He warned that handing over the leadership to women, who "cannot drive a car, let alone head a home, or anything beyond that," is destroying Muslim homes.
Al-Sarsawi also lashed out at women's rights supporters, saying that they hate women and "bring them down to sin." He said that women who go out to work expect equality and want to discuss everything – with the result that the home is turned "into a parliament." "Women's rights supporters in Europe and America are all swindlers," he said.
Al-Sarsawi warned that "for 50-60 years they have been using movies and TV series in order to effeminate men and make them soft. The boy grows up to be a Mickey Mouse, a mommy's boy" who when still in diapers has a cellphone, and who keeps his mother up to date on his every move. "Can someone like this ever do anything with his life?" Al-Sarsawi asks incredulously. "Of course not... Today, a boy grows up to be a sissy who cannot do anything." In the days of true Arab upbringing, in contrast, "they would throw the boy into the desert and let him grow up there, and they would not hear from him for three or four years. When he would return, he would be self-sufficient," Al-Sarsawi said.
Following are excerpts from the TV program.
To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2422.htm.
To view the MEMRI TV page on Women's Topics, visit http://www.memri.org/subject/en/141.htm.
I sense a double entendre, and might agree with the Cleric. Laz?
One of my wife’s first cousins married an exchange student from Iraq. He has become a citizen and they have 4 grown kids. The kids seem to be totally Americanized. The oldest girl (a raving beauty) has been married 3 times.
I wonder if these animals use food tasters if they eat their wife’s cooking. ;0)
Jail homosexuals and cane the little womans rear end.
There are af few things ya can go along with moosies on.
and a “gooney goo-goo” to you!
“they would throw the boy into the desert and let him grow up there, and they would not hear from him for three or four years. When he would return, he would be self-sufficient,”............................. Wow! WTH is in the desert? What a putz, its no longer 700, its 2010. Women have brains, sometimes more superior than men. As far as I am concerned, the Mullahs lost their masculinity years ago, maybe that’s why they are so paranoid about women acting on their own. BTW, not all Iranian men are like that, most only have one wife and live as we do.
Arabs are sooooo... tough, with women and people they can push around. When someone stands up to them they are like the Paris street urchins yelling, "You hit me!, you hit me!"
>”Arabs are sooooo... tough, with women”
Ya, I can see how an “attitude adjustment” was exactly what she needed.
And the son of bitch doesn’t even feel any shame about what he did.
You might want to take target practice. Those 6 year old child brides can really dodge a swing!
“Muslim Clerics prove there is a life form Below POND SCUM”
I’m thinking more like pig poop in an effort to really offen him/them.
To Loyalist
You said, “ If I tried to beat my wife with “the rod”...
...her daddy and two brothers would shoot me me with “the shotgun”.
But in Islam, “If I tried to beat my wife with “the rod”...
...her daddy and two brothers would hold her down...”
...her daddy and two brothers would shoot me me with “the shotgun”.
I have my own shotgun, thankyouverymuch.
Like the other poster's wife, better kill me with the first lick. Otherwise, as Paul Harvey used to say, "You can run but you can't hide." And my aim might be a little "off" for the first two or three shots.
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