Posted on 02/15/2005 3:39:30 AM PST by AliVeritas
Does the Quran permit husbands to hit their wives, or not?
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.
Where is the truth between the two extremes?
Unfortunately, the male Middle Eastern scholar is far closer to the truth than the American female Muslim activist and apologist, for Sura 4:34 in the Quran indeed permits husbands to hit their wives, though the verse says nothing about rods.
It is true, as Hathout notes, that all societies have domestic violence; however, Islamic societies have it enshrined in their eternal word of Allah, unlike, say, the New Testament, which does not have even a faint hint of it. With such divine endorsement from Allah, can Islam reform on this matter?
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Islam = EVIL RELIGION.
The Crusades did not go far enough.
Everything I needed to KNOW about Islam I learned on 11 Sep 2001.
good morning.
i listed all links to these interesting jihad verses (without editing, without commenting, 100% pure muzzi-quality) in the left column at my site.
Whack the average Redneck Lady with one of those, and guess where it will end up!
Islam is a dark ages religion, which promotes ignorance.
Once Muslims even thought that bicyles were evil, so the problem is with them.
C'mon, none of them are under ten, like Muhammad's wife!
In some Christian circles it is believed that the Bible encourages husbands to discipline their wives by spanking them. I was shocked when a newly married friend, someone I had known from childhood, proudly showed me a paddle he used to discipline his wife.
True, even outside the Christian groups. It's nothing like domestic violence tho. The wife is usually glad for it, if she isn't, she leaves.
Probably stays because it is like pushing a "reset" button.
Getting a spanking is a lot easier to deal with than stewing over things or having a fuss with words that harm the relationship.
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