“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.” (Qur’an 4:34)
Islamic scholars, of course, generally say that Qur’an 4:34 only allows men to discipline their wives by beating them lightly, so as not to leave a mark. The problem is that “lightly” is in the eye of the beholder, and once the principle that a woman can be “disciplined” by violence is allowed, the door is opened to what happened here.
“Groom knocks bride out at mom’s request,” Emirates 24/7, March 22, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
An Egyptian groom who knocked his bride out by fracturing her skull just after their wedding told police he did so at his mother’s request to control his wife.
The unnamed groom said he took his wife to their new home just after wedding and slapped her three times as his mother told him.
“My mother said this would help me control my wife through our marital life.
“She warned me that my brothers are all controlled by their wives because they did not listen to her and hit their brides,” he said, according to Egypt’s ‘Al Bawaba News’ network.
“After I slapper [sic] her, she hit me back. I then went to the kitchen and brought a metal bar, which I used to hit her on the head and body.”
Police arrested the man on charges of causing serious injuries to his wife, who suffered from fractures in her skull and pelvis.
The report said the bride was still unconscious in her wedding dress when her family visited her in hospital in Cairo.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them.
– Allah in Holy Ko-Ran 4:34
Wait a minute, I thought the Arabs had not yet acquired chair technology in the 7th century. Did these couches have legs? If they did then it is a dirty lie that the Arabs couldn’t invent chair technology and weren’t smart enough to import it. This is important, cuz that means these women were being lightly beaten, smacked around the head and face, while they were laying on a rug on the sand, and that’s a brutal image.
An Egyptian groom who knocked his bride out by fracturing her skull just after their wedding told police he did so at his mother’s request to control his wife.
I doubt that Prez Barack Hussein or his hafiz Rashad Hussain will look at this episode, but they should. All along the administration’s policy has been to back the Mo-Bro-Hood to help civilize Egypt, they lose an election, the military dictators take back control, and now this.
Islam is reforming, as in re-forming, as in putting itself back into the form of pure JIhad Sharia it was in centuries ago. Smashing in the haid of a bride is not a light smacking around the face, and she was probably sitting on a chair in a hotel reception room, so it’s a crazy mixed up world in which we live.
Islamic law must be enforced. The groom must stand before a Sharia court and face the music.
Spot On says
This should be page 1 news but it won’t.
Lia Wissing says
I pity the children: if we could remove them from parents at a young enough age, we might save them, but the adults (men & women) are beyond hope.
ayatollahowmany says
“and beat them (lightly)…”
Its a RELATIVE term.
mariam rove says
it sure is!! M
Don McKellar says
I’m sure this domestic violence goes on ALL THE TIME, almost exactly as described, behind closed doors. I am sure that new brides all across the moslem world live in absolute fear of their monther-in-law who, by extension, holds the keys to the Allah-approved wife-beater. This black comedy-tragedy story just makes such complete “moslem logic” that it must be widely happening.
gravenimage says
Very true. Ayaan Hirsi Ali writes about being a child in Mecca, and that as soon as it began to get dark and the men in the neighborhood returned from work or the cafes that the screaming and sobbing of women would start up in all the surrounding buildings.
jayell says
If ever this sort of thing happened in the UK the excuse would be that the husband was a little worse for wear after a visit to the local pub on the way home and wasn’t properly responsible for his actions. They don’t have pubs in Mecca, or the kind of beverage that you’d find in them, so what would be the excuse for the men in Mecca?
jayell says
“An Egyptian groom who knocked his bride out by fracturing her skull just after their wedding told police he did so at his mother’s request to control his wife.”…..So let’s get this straight. In islam MEN tell WOMEN what to do? So this MAN breaks his new wife’s skull on the orders – sorry – ‘request’ of his MOTHER?? Anyone notice a discrepancy there? Or was this the original ‘Mother-in-Law from Hell?
EYESOPEN says
She is not the only one. There are many like this evil witch.
BC says
Have you heard the term ‘what goes around comes around’ ? These mothers had a hard time themselves as young wives so they are just making sure the proud Islamic ‘traditions’ are kept up
awake says
So much for the canard that all Muslim women and children are victims of Islam, eh?
Harald Eigerson says
When the young women go to get their clitorectmies performed; who do you think is holding the knife? Right, Muslim women because misery loves company!
Sally Archer says
Societal Stockholm Syndrome. You cannot fairly ascribe agency to the majority of women raised from girlhood in sexually cruel, traumatizing, male-dominant Islam who lack the options and intelligence of a Hirsi Ali. It is fascinating (not in a good way) how many men (and women with internalized misogyny) there have been commenting on this blog over many months who so readily jump on the “misogyny light” bandwagon of blaming women in Islam whenever there’s the slightest opening to do so.
Those who do it know who you are. You have to live with yourselves. I don’t have to respond. But somebody needs to say it here on occasion, and this is one of those times.
nothosaur says
Sally Archer:
I agree.
Over several centuries of abuse, it makes sense that a large number of Muslim women would be sumissive or complicit in the violence. To the extent that such characteristics are inherited, those traits are passed onto the next generation.
The passive or complicit women are the most likely to survive in the hostile environment of Dar al-Islam!
Rebellious women are mosre likely to be beaten/attacked with acid/killed before having children. To the extent that a rebellious personality is inherited, that trait is less likely to be passed on to the next generation.
Multiply this effect over several generations, and it makes sense that we see more than a few people like the mother-in-law of this story.
Combine that factor with social pressure, and the effect is even worse. Still, the ultimate responsibility for submissive or complicit behavior falls on the actor — at some point the individual needs to draw a line no matter what the cost to preserve what is good.
Still, I have to ask myself — if I were a woman living in Saudia Arabia or Iran, would I have escaped by now? Or, would I have found a way to fit in, even if it means going to an extreme to prove to my masters that I am no threat to their system — that I am even willing to help them sustain it.
I, myself, am not by nature as rebellious as many of my generation. I suppose I am moderate on that scale. So, it’s hard to guess whether I would have put up much of a fight against the Muslim men of my family before fading into submission.
Everyone should try that thought experiment when considering the Muslim women.
Hiramo says
His brothers are controlled by their wives and this shmuck is controlled by his mother.
Joseph says
Great catch. That one flew right over my head. I didn’t even see it.
Peggy says
I seriously doubt that his brothers are controlled by their wives. I think that the brothers aren’t controlled by the mother and she blames the wives for that.
gravenimage says
Egypt: Groom fractures bride’s skull at his mother’s request
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I guess that’s what they mean by “respecting your parents” in Islam…
It also shows that women—in the case of this mother—in Islam are often just as oppressive as the men.
More:
The unnamed groom said he took his wife to their new home just after wedding and slapped her three times as his mother told him.
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Note: this is a classic example of “fearing disobedience”—his wife didn’t even have to actually disagree with him on anything before the savage beatings began.
More:
“My mother said this would help me control my wife through our marital life.
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There is no love in Islam. This was on her *wedding day*. The “honeymoon period” appears to be the time it took to get home. Wait—scratch that. Since he had already decided to beat her, there was no honeymoon period.
More:
“After I slapper [sic] her, she hit me back. I then went to the kitchen and brought a metal bar, which I used to hit her on the head and body.”
Police arrested the man on charges of causing serious injuries to his wife, who suffered from fractures in her skull and pelvis.
…………………………………..
How difficult is it to *fracture a woman’s pelvis”? This is the sort of injury one gets from a car accident or a fall off a cliff or high building. The savagery implied by this is just stunning. It also—not surprisingly—seems to have disturbing sexual undertones.
Why sleep with your new bride when you can *fracture her pelvis*?
More:
The report said the bride was still unconscious in her wedding dress when her family visited her in hospital in Cairo.
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Just think of *that* image.
It would be comforting to believe that this is just the toxic influence of “mommy dearest”, but of course it is not. You find stories like this all the time:
“‘Husbands, beat your wives so they will mend their ways,’ Egyptian cleric advises”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/egyptian-cleric-advises-men-beat-your-wife-so-she-will-mend-her-ways/
And note that he is “citing the practices of the prophet”, who beat his child bride Aisha.
And the question is, what happens now? Assuming this poor woman ever regains consciousness, can we assume she will receive an automatic divorce from the thug? Can we assume that he will actually be prosecuted?
Wife beating is widespread in Egypt, as it is in all of Dar-al-Islam.
God, I hate Islam.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that view on ground, Freedom Lover.
And kudos to you for having the intelligence, moral decency, and bravery to have left Islam.
Buraq says
And beat them lightly until they’re unconscious.
Clown!
Champ says
What an evil and wrongheaded thing for a mother to advise her son courtesy the evil and wrongheaded quran–hmm. And not only is the quran a manual for murder but it’s also a manual for misogyny.
“Police arrested the man on charges of causing serious injuries to his wife”
And I see grounds for attempted murder and the mother is complicit in this crime, as well; but of course this occured in Egypt, so what do I know …
Joseph says
I wonder what Muslim vows are like?
I take thee to
love
honor
cherish
beat into submission
kill you for no reason at all
rape you when I WANT SEX.
Yes I know rape isn’t about sex, it is about humiliation, domination and anger.
Edward says
The groom may have an honest alibi …….”the devil made me do it!”
Seriously, its sad how people can be impelled to do evil. What human psychology has the power to induce a compelling urge to kill or hurt someone. Perhaps, even the words in a book have the hypnotic power. Naw! Evil is a learning thing. Indoctrination that is!
However, evil manifests to an individual who is under the influence of drugs or something else. Or perhaps an external influence, a transcending force. If this happens to be the case, the groom does have an alibi. Proving that evil (Satan) exists. A question: can an external evil entity cause mass aberrations of human beings brains?
EYESOPEN says
This is so absolutely repulsive and horrifying that most people – especially those NOT familiar with izlam – would not believe this story. But they should read some of the horrors Wafa Sultan related in her book, “A God Who Hates”. As an M.D. in Egypt, Wafa Sultan had seen some of these horrors.
JMB says
Some time ago an Egyptian Muslim family moved into our mildly up-market apartment block here in Sydney. One afternoon there was screaming and yelling and the police attended. The woman of the house was bruised black and blue, was in considerable distress and had obviously been severely beaten and/or bashed up. She refused ambulance treatment and would not press charges with the police.
These people truly live in the dark ages.
Joseph says
Her in the USA that man would have gone to jail. No ifs ands or buts. A man who beats his wife is a weak man, if he can be called a man at all.
duh_swami says
Mama don’t allow no disobedient wives around here, and Mama is running the show. When Mama says ‘slap that wife three times’, it’s time to slap that wife three times. If the wife fights back, get a metal bar and hit her lightly in the head 8-10 times. Mama says the floggings will continue until morale improves…The wife made a big mistake she thought she was getting a man, but got a Mama’s boy instead…The wife should run away when able, before Mama decides to finish the job…
Jay Boo says
Muslim women around the world are swooning with envy wishing “if only I could have been beaten like that, wouldn’t Allah be so very proud?”.
Mike B says
Just wait until he realises he didn’t get to consummate the marriage.
Fritz Kohlhaas says
Prophet, mother, son: PSYCOPATHS ALL OF THEM! Islam is just plain EVIL!
vlparker says
What a friggin’ lunatic religion.
Rebecca says
that is really sick
Jay Boo says
On a lighter note:
The bride decoration on top of the cake is not fully veiled.
I am surprised that Allah let that one get by unnoticed without a temper tantrum.
Crusader says
HEY HILLARY! What do you have to say about the “war on women” among Muslims? You know, those Muslim countries that you embraced to get their filthy money for your Clinton Foundation. Or is the “war on women” only reserved for those who don’t want our tax money to pay for abortions or birth control??
Hillary is the biggest hipocrite of all time and her husband is a lech.
PatnCats says
Well, MY KORAN (kinda makes me wannt puke to say that….) translation sez….”SCOURGE the disobiedant wife….” the “””beat (LIghtly)”” in some translations was put in by the Arab MUSSIE translator so as not to alarm us ENGLISH SPEAKING SAPS out here in ”Read the Frigging Koran and Learn Barbarism Firsthand Yourself” Land.
BC says
Love Islamic style. Love does not really exist in Muslim life as the only ones you can love are Allah and Mohammad
Zomby Poet says
Feminists, world leaders, men, everyone must speak out loudly and repeatedly against the following:
1) Female genital mutilation
2) Punishing rape victims
3) Honor killing
4) Strapping bombs to children
5) Sexually enslaving women
6) Murdering homosexuals
7) Child marriage
8) Domestic Violence
9) Disciplining or Punishing Wives