There can be no truly frank and forthright discussion about domestic violence in Islamic societies without acknowledging the role of Qur'an 4:34:
"Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them."
However the apologists try to spin it, the bottom line is that Allah says you can hit your wife. And so often, Muslim men do just that. "Wife beaten to death for 'disobedience," by Mohammed Elsidafy for Emirates Business 24-7, February 1:
A woman was beaten by her husband after she refused to resume breastfeeding her baby, Dubai Criminal Court heard yesterday.
The defendant, MN, a 26-year-old Pakistani tailor, again ordered the woman, AF, to feed her baby, but she refused once more, put the baby on the bed and went onto the roof of their house.
There, she removed her headscarf, which annoyed her conservative Muslim husband. He then allegedlly slapped her and brought her back to her room.
When she left the room again and went back up to the roof, he allegedly hit her several times with a plastic pipe, and she fell to the ground. He lifted his wife up and lay her on the bed, but when her condition deteriorated, he took her to hospital. She passed away after a few days due to complications from an injury to her head.
The prosecution accused the husband, who has been jailed since April pending the case, of inflicting injuries on his wife that led to her death.
The defendant attended yesterday's session and appeared distracted. He denied the charge when questioned by the court.
According to testimony by Ali Mohammed, an anesthetisation consultant at Khalifa Hospital in Ajman, nurses consulted him on the victim's condition, telling him her husband had brought her in claiming she had fallen from a ladder.
Mohammed had her moved to the emergency ward, where it appeared on examination that she had been bruised in various places. Suspecting a criminal act, he alerted his superior and called the police.
The victim was operated upon a few days later. The forensic report showed the injuries on AF's body were a result of being hit with a solid object and death occured due to an injury to the head....
I despise the Muslim cowards who hit their wives.
The only right for women in Islam is the right to live a miserable life, assuming you are the constant slave to your husband, father, brother, etc.
Muslim Women Rights vs. Infidel Women Rights
You never hear Hussein speaking out about the hideous lives Muslim women live.
Gee, I wonder why.
again where is the feminist outcry over this death? where is the outcry from the UN>EU leftist garbage? selective outcry by the pedlers of blame l suppose,
Read Wafa Sultan's 'A God Who Hates' for a disturbing up close and personal look at Islamic misogyny.
It's encouraging that at least the medical people reported it, and looks like it might be prosecuted. What a hopeless life Muslim women must live.
This case reminds me of another kind of Muslim cruelty, a video I watched about women in a southern Iran village who were committing suicide in droves. Among other things, they had to cover their faces with a hard mask whenever they went out and only with a male relative, and always wrapped in the usu. black shroud, of course. Their very existence is negated, a living death from which there's no escape but physical death.
Of course, there is a lot more to this story than appears here. No woman that I have ever known would refuse to feed her own baby. What's the other side of the story?
Here we see an angry husband justifying his abuse because his wife refused to obey him: she wouldn't feed the baby; she wouldn't wear her headscarf; she wouldn't stay in her room, and on and on.
So, following what he had learned in the Qur'an this husband felt justified in beating his wife for disobedience.
The amazing arrogance-bubble of Muslim males, such as this one, who believe they have the Allah-given right to control women,and who use physical force to do so, needs a sharp, deflating jab. Despite what their Daddies told them, despite what their Imams told them, and despite the lifelong effects of having being raised as superior testes-blessed humans by their downtrodden, inferior, testes-deficient Mummies, these Muslim males need a Helen Reddy wake-up call to bring them to true reality.
I sentence them to listen to "I am Woman" endlessly until Helen finally makes these, her brothers, understand.
1975 was the UN Year of the Woman and "I am Woman" was the theme song. Obviously, the message didn't get out -- but better late than never.
he'll walk!
The loopy-lefties, dhimmis, and apologists will be quick to point out that domestic violence is found everywhere, and that we shouldn't single out any one race (meaning culture or religion).
We already know that. What is important is what that society does about it. How that religion views it. How the culture treats the perpetrator of such violence. And what the perpetrator uses to "justify" his violent acts.
It must be hard to "hit them lightly" with a pipe..
Thanks, I'll get it. I can highly recommend a similar book by another take-no-prisoners author, Nonie Darwish's "Cruel and Unusual Punishment".
Both are well reviewed at
http://www.city-journal.org/2010/bc0129ll.html
Oops! Make that "Cruel and Usual Punishment".
But the slip highlights that one country can recognise this phenomenon and legislate against it (via the 8th Amendment), while one might search in vain for ANY Muslim majority country that has legislated against Surah 4:34, or even routinely prosecutes violence against females.
Even, as Sam Spade surmises above, when that violence ends in a death.
There is a new book about honor killing in the Middle East that shows the senselessness and the depravity of this "custom" -- "Murder in the Name of Honor" -- by an American-educated Jordanian, Rana Husseini. A digest of the book can be found at http://www.annaqed.com/en/content/show.aspx?aid=16277
Since spousal abuse is a crime in the United States, any Muslim who does not denounce the Quranic command that Muslim men should beat their "women" (meaning wives, concubines, and children) is abetting criminal behavior.
Reminds me of "beat 'em, bust 'em, that's our custom..."
http://sheikyermami.com/2006/12/19/muslim-woman/
Islamic wife beating 101.
Barbarians,savages and cowards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp3Eam5FX58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh7qiO3Ygnk&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl8g8S6F3do&feature=related
They haven't stopped beating their women for 1400 years. They will never stop.
The guy must have had one heck of a big toothbrush.
Following are ten translations of Qur'an Chapter 4, Verse 34, the notorious beat-your-disobedient-woman verse. You can find them at www.quranbrowser.com. Some of the translators insert the word (lightly) after "beat." None of the insertions in parentheses are in the original Arabic of the Qur'an.
Notice that six of the ten translations use the word "beat."
Two translations use the word "scourge," which means to whip.
And two of the translations use the word "chastise," the first definition of which is "To punish, as by beating or whipping." See Merriam Webster online, and Dictionary.com, and the Free Dictionary online.
Pickthall
Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them. Lo! Allah is ever High, Exalted, Great.
Yusuf Ali
Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because God has given the one more (strength) than the other, and because they support them from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and guard in (the husband's) absence what God would have them guard. As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them (first), (Next), refuse to share their beds, (And last) beat them (lightly); but if they return to obedience, seek not against them Means (of annoyance): For God is Most High, great (above you all).
Hilali-Khan
Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allah has made one of them to excel the other, and because they spend (to support them) from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient (to Allah and to their husbands), and guard in the husband's absence what Allah orders them to guard (e.g. their chastity, their husband's property, etc.). As to those women on whose part you see illconduct, admonish them (first), (next), refuse to share their beds, (and last) beat them (lightly, if it is useful), but if they return to obedience, seek not against them means (of annoyance). Surely, Allah is Ever Most High, Most Great.
Shakir
Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely Allah is High, Great.
Sher Ali
Men are guardians over women because ALLAH has made some of them excel others, and because men spend on them of their wealth. So virtuous women are obedient, and guard the secrets of their husbands with ALLAH's protection. And as for those on whose part you fear disobedience, admonish them and keep away from them in their beds and chastise them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them. Surely, ALLAH is High and Great.
[The first definition of "chastise" is to punish by beating or whipping.]
Khalifa
The men are made responsible for the women, and GOD has endowed them with certain qualities, and made them the bread earners. The righteous women will cheerfully accept this arrangement, since it is GOD's commandment, and honor their husbands during their absence. If you experience rebellion from the women, you shall first talk to them, then (you may use negative incentives like) deserting them in bed, then you may (as a last alternative) beat them. If they obey you, you are not permitted to transgress against them. GOD is Most High, Supreme.
Arberry
Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that God has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God's guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them. If they then obey you, look not for any way against them; God is All-high, All-great.
Palmer
Men stand superior to women in that God hath preferred some of them over others, and in that they expend of their wealth: and the virtuous women, devoted, careful (in their husbands') absence, as God has cared for them. But those whose perverseness ye fear, admonish them and remove them into bed-chambers and beat them; but if they submit to you, then do not seek a way against them; verily, God is high and great.
Rodwell
Men are superior to women on account of the qualities with which God hath gifted the one above the other, and on account of the outlay they make from their substance for them. Virtuous women are obedient, careful, during the husband's absence, because God hath of them been careful. But chide those for whose refractoriness ye have cause to fear; remove them into beds apart, and scourge them: but if they are obedient to you, then seek not occasion against them: verily, God is High, Great!
Sale
Men shall have the pre-eminence above women, because of those [advantages] wherein God hath caused the one of them to excel the other, and for that which they expend of their substance [in maintaining their wives]. The honest women [are] obedient, careful in the absence [of their husbands], for that God preserveth [them, by committing them to the care and protection of the men]. But those, whose perverseness ye shall be apprehensive of, rebuke; and remove them into separate apartments, and chastise them. But if they shall be obedient unto you, seek not an occasion [of quarrel] against them; for God is high and great.
www.veteranoutrage.com
A woman is a mans companion
A woman is a mans closest friend
A woman is more beautiful than a man
A woman is softer than a man
A woman is more family orientated than a man
So how come its only christians and Jews who seem to see these obvious qualities of a woman
But Islam treats women like dogs?
Excellent link on Islam and Dogs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s55-7kRp8KU
I wish the average Canadian was aware of things like this happening in the outside world.
Amen!!!
You don't have to be a Mahoundian to beat your wife...but it really helps to have 'God' on your side when you do it...
'beaten by her husband after she refused to resume breastfeeding her baby'
Completely senseless!
How does beating her to death make her feed the baby?
This guy is insane by any standards, not just civilized western ones!
INFIDEL MR. ROBERT,THIS MAN IS A GOOD MUSLIM,PLEASE READ THE VERSE 4:34 OF HOLY KURAN
Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allah has given the one more (strength) than the other, and because they support them from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and guard in (the husband's) absence what Allah would have them guard. As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them (first), (Next), refuse to share their beds, (And last) beat them (lightly); but if they return to obedience, seek not against them Means (of annoyance): For Allah is Most High, great (above you all).
THIS MAN IS NOT THE PROBLEM,HE´S JUST DOING WHAT HIS RELIGION ORDERED HIM TO DO:VERSE 4:34.ISLAM IT THE PROBLEM(KORAN,HADITH,SIRA,ETC..)BY ALLAH THIS MAN IS INNOCENT
koran is NOT holy by any means, just a piece of trash. You have to be a zombie to follow koran.
Good news regarding defeat of mozoid libel suit
http://www.meforum.org/2583/islamist-lawfare-defeated-in-texas
Lancet Study Blames Palestinian Wife-Beating on Israel
Lancet Study Does Not Mention Honor Killings, Forced Veiling, Arranged Marriages, etc.
http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2010/01/24/lancet-study-blames-palestinian-wife-beating-on-israel/