All sensible husbands will agree with me when I say that it is very important to beat one's wife. They will therefore share my sympathy with Mohamed Kamal Mustafa, the preacher who was given a 15-month prison sentence in Spain last week for writing a book offering tips on wife-beating, the Muslim way. In Women in Islam, published three years ago, Mr. Mustafa recommends a three-stage approach to keeping the little woman in order: first, give her verbal warnings; next, if she still refuses to mend her ways, subject her to a period of sexual abstinence; finally, if even stage...
