Wife Beating in Islam - Only a rod will help!(click here to enlarge and comment)

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Can women beat men?

islamic country...
almost like ancient worlds!

i wonder if his mother got beaten and that is the reason he condones it....unbelievable!!!!

In the West, should the police come to the rescue of any woman who converted to Islam knowing that wife beating is holy.

Can Catholic policepersons enter a Muslim house with a cross on since Muslims demand dogs have doggie shoes on.

Muslimahs look like the wicked witches of the west, scaring the children. Dead people walking.

No wonder this man is talking about women and classifying them into 3 kinds as if they were goats. The bedouin culture is and will be always lika this. The question is why liberated moslim women run around here in the west with their burqas and headscarfs ? do they like this " goat" role so much? it's like crying hit me everyone. Islam has destroyed half the world cultures because it's not a religion but a political movement to propogate Bedouinism.

Well according to a couple of scholars (egyptian, saudi) a woman should answer (illegitimate) beatings by taking up self defence if her life is in danger. That is great - one thinks - at first glance.

But not really.

Firstly, a woman can not physically measure a man. Nature. He can over power her in most cases unless maybe if she is a ninja or strong or such.

Secondly, a hadith, which is used to to justify the content of verse 4:34 (sura nisa, verse 34) clearly stipulates that a woman came to the prophet and complained of her abusive her husband who beat her. The prophet initially advised her to retaliate but then asked to think about it. When she returned, he said: "We wanted one thing but Allah wanted another, and what Allah wanted is best". That night verse 34 was revealed which explains it is translated as beat in the Quran of the worlds.

Many "scholars" have written socalled instruction guides as to how to hit and abuse women. Some come with apologetic nonsense which is in clear contradiction with the teachings of the quran as well as ahadith. Others restrict the beating to the body without bruising and not on the face. But other wise OK.

One of these scholars is Jamal Badawi and his entire "guide on how to beat the wife" was rebutted by Silas.

Wife beating 101:

http://www.answering-islam.org/Silas/wife-beating.htm

The guide by Badawi:

www.jannah.org/sisters/end.html

Rebuttal of Badawi's wife beating guide:

http://answering-islam.org/Silas/beating_badawi.htm

http://frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=31328

I know of muslims who have approached Badawi about this topic in person and he has refused to answer them.

He (like all of his peers and fellow "scholars") does not deny that wife beating if forbidden but thinks that by playing around with the words (i.e. calling it striking instead of beating, light instead of just beating etc) he can hide the real message/agenda.

Of course one can only beat women of whom the husband "fears" (i.e. it need not have occurred yet) disobedience or rebellion ("nushuz").

It is also note worthy that the egyptian sheikh also did not reject wife beating as such. Just that if women were in danger or the beating was not legitimate, then they could defend themselves. The crux.

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081028/FOREIGN/123266633/1135

The fatwa unleashed protests from many scholars around the world calling it a contradiction to the Quran (hence wife beating is permitted or else it can not contradict the Quran) and calling it a way of creating chaos and making the home a battelzone instead of a sanctuary. One might then ponder if the women who do get beaten find their homes to be a sanctuary or hell.

That is why there are no fatwas to prohibit wife beating in a clear cut unambigious way. That would have been a better solution.