“Indeed, the hitting should ‘be like a joke,’ even reinforcing ‘the love and friendship’ between the couple: ‘This hitting is a kind of reminder that the love and friendship that Allah commanded, is still found between us (i.e., the couple).'” Who is Hassan Al-Laham trying to kid?
Spousal abuse is universal across all cultures, but only in Islam is it given divine sanction, both in the Qur’an and in Muhammad’s example:
“Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” — Qur’an 4:34
Muhammad “struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?” — Aisha (Sahih Muslim 2127)
“How to properly beat your wife, according to the PA Mufti in Gaza,” by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, February 15, 2016:
During a weekly Palestinian Authority TV program on social issues, the Mufti of Gaza Hassan Al-Laham discussed divorce in Islam. He explained that Allah directed men to take four steps to resolve conflicts with one’s wife before resorting to divorce:
“Allah said: Warn them [the wives], and separate from them, and hit them, and bring an arbitrator from his family and an arbitrator from her family.”[Official PA TV, Feb. 8, 2016]His essential message is that while “she became your wife, and she is under your command,” nonetheless, hitting is to be used only after warning her and separating from her “in the bedroom” has failed to achieve the desired result. And then, when hitting is being used at the proper time, it should not be a severe beating:“Not hitting that will bring the police, and break her hand and cause bleeding, or hitting that makes the face ugly.”Indeed, the hitting should “be like a joke,” even reinforcing “the love and friendship” between the couple:“This hitting is a kind of reminder that the love and friendship that Allah commanded, is still found between us (i.e., the couple).”Other broadcasts on PA TV relating to women’s rights and position in Palestinian society documented by Palestinian Media Watch:“This woman may not and has no rights to deny him this right [to sex]… a woman must [only] leave home at the discretion of her husband… The woman should obey her husband and please him.”[PA TV, Aug. 2 and 12, 2012]…
M says
This is ridiculous how about him what he will do to his wife other than beat her pathetic that why my muslim bf dont know love because his following a cult
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
I’m not sure what you said right there, but I’ll say this: the Imam is saying give her some tough love, give her a court side slap up side the head from Bobby Knight, but give her a give her a smile as you hit her to show her your love but make the smile of inscrutable meant just to be sure to show her that it doesn’t pay to get uppity. Moslem Love must in some way be connected to Radar Love.
Is a Moslem dude with four wives (one county wife, the other three mosque wives) more likely to need to slap one of his women around because they’re creeping out of control? Is a four wife Moslem inherently slappier? Punchier?
Carolyne says
Well, yeah, probably, because a four wife Muslim has three more and the loss of one wouldn’t be too upsetting.
If my husband hi me (Which of course he wouldn’t because he is civilized and truly loves me) He would regret the day. Really, really regret the day.
Concerned Citizen says
How do you hit jokingly?
CogitoErgoSum says
I think maybe the Mufti has been watching too many Three Stooges films.
Mr John says
And how it can be handled by a joke when the wife has been disobedient to Allah??
Dan Jones says
The followers of the pedophile mo-ham-is-mad are disgusting…
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Judi says
Prestigious title “Mufti of Gaza”. In other words, he presides over a bunch of ass-lifting savages living in a bombsite.
gravenimage says
Video: Mufti of Gaza explains how properly to beat your wife
“Indeed, the hitting should ‘be like a joke,’ even reinforcing ‘the love and friendship’ between the couple: ‘This hitting is a kind of reminder that the love and friendship that Allah commanded, is still found between us (i.e., the couple).’”
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Only in Islam is “love and friendship” exhibited by beatings.
And note the “bad santa hat” sported by Mufti of Gaza Hassan Al-Laham–this shows that he is a graduate of Al Aqsa, the center of Sunni learning.
And this “correction”, of course, is all one way–only the husband may beat his wife–certainly not vice versa.
As his fellow cleric notes, a wife does not even have the right to deny sex–even if the husband is a bad Muslim and does not pray.
A poster here refers to Islam as the “worship the penis club”, and she is not wrong.
Pumbar says
“worship the penis club”.
I hope you’re not referring to Allan or Mohamsterhead Graven?
gravenimage says
If I recall correctly, Pumbar, this phrase was coined by poster Istanbul Chick. It is frequently cited by Dumbledore’s Army.
It is *very* apt.
Pumbar says
I remember Istanbul chick, that was a few years ago!
I suppose for the sake of accuracy you should really point out which member is being referred to with this crowd. The ones between their legs or the ones on their foreheads…
All the best.
Angemon says
gravenimage posted:
“Only in Islam is “love and friendship” exhibited by beatings.”
All along while the celebration of Valenti’s day is forbidden because it’s not islamic.
PRCS says
Ist idiot says: “You didn’t buy her as a slave, nor did you buy her in the market. She is a respectable woman from a respectable family.”
Is there any doubt that buying slaves–especially women–is permitted in Islam.
Not so-called “radical” Islam.
Islam.
I’m not a Trump fan, but there are many such videos and he and his staff should have used one of them to make a specific point about Muslim immigration to our country.
Gotta wonder what Queen Clinton would have to say about such.
Jaladhi says
Queen Hillary will make only excuses for Islam and Muslims as all Democrats do all the time!
gravenimage says
Thanks for noting the slave reference, PRCS.
I’m waiting for the next video from this Mufti on how to beat your slave. Probably the same, but not as “jokingly”.
Voytek Gagalka says
I would never guessed, in my wildest nightmares, that you should have manual to beat your own wife and that it could be not only proper but divinely sanctioned. Indeed, if that is essence of “religion of peace,” I prefer to have nothing to do with it. So let me “burn in allahist hell” instead! I would in fact consider that “punishment” as morally far superior than any of their “rewards.”
gravenimage says
He is hardly the first Muslim cleric to confirm this, Voytek.
Jaladhi says
Next he will be instructing Muslims how properly to behead non-Muslims! Moron!! And the bigger morons are those who listen to this moron but then again he is doing what his book of murder and rape teaches him!
worldcitizen1919 says
Wife beating is not sanctioned in the Quran or by Muhammad.
That does not stop Muslims or their clergy however from trying to justify it through their religion rather than admit wrong
Another translation of the Quran by the first western woman has translated beat as ‘go away’ as the word used has been the wrong one chosen by many translators.
4:34 is a wrong translation and misunderstood.
The correct translation is not to hit or beat but to go away and leave her alone if she keeps acting mischievous.
4:34 As for those women from whom you fear disloyalty, then you shall advise them, abandon them in the bedchamber, and separate them; if they obey you, then do not seek a way over them; God is High, Great.*(Edip Yuksel Layth Saleh al-Shaiban Martha Schulte-Nafeh)
“And those females whose resistance you fear, then admonish them and abandon them in their sleeping places and go away from them . Then if they obeyed you, then look not for any way against them.(Laleh Bakhtiar)
The translator explains why 4:34 has been incorrectly translated and already 3 translations have been corrected but those hard copies remain incorrect.
She begins talking about 4:34 5 minutes into video. This is the age of women and I congratulate her on taking on the men to try and bring about a change. She is very courageous.
http://youtu.be/833pm2pOhgw
mortimer says
Worldcitizen claims: “Wife beating is not sanctioned in the Quran or by Muhammad”
The response is not found in your pamphlets, wc, but in the original texts of Islam. If you disregard the hadiths, Sira, Koran and canonical commentaries, you are living in a fantasyland.
Stop reading the pamphlets. Read the hadiths instead. They say what they say.
Mohammed said, “Hang up your scourge where your wife can see it.” Kash-shaf (the revealer) of al-Zamkhshari (Vol. 1, p. 525)
Godwin says
What the hack ! The supreme God has never tell anyone to punish his wife. If there are quarrels between husband and wife, let patience and the attitude to forgive and forget to achieve true happiness in the family.
Phil says
Multikulti apologetics masquerading as facts! Even if this dubious claim is correct – and no reputable Islamic commentator from the last 1400 years has made this fatuous claim – you have a very major problem with the canonical Hadith as well as Mohammad’s biography; note as well the word ‘canonical’ as all these Hadith have intact isnad chains (i.e., authentic chains of attribution).
Let’s start with everyone’s favourite, Sahih Muslim 4:2127 – Muhammad struck his child-wife, Aisha (supposedly his favourite), in the chest one evening when she left the house without his permission. “Narrated Aisha: He struck me on the chest which caused me pain.”
And the ever-popular Sahih Muslim 9: 3506 where Muhammad’s fathers-in-law (Abu Bakr and Umar) amused him by slapping his wives (Aisha and Hafsa) for annoying him. Did that affront the Propher? Hardly – according to the Hadith, the prophet of Islam laughed when he heard this.
But never forget al-Bukhari 72:715 – “Narrated Aisha: ‘I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women’ “. Muhammad’s own (favourite!) wife complained of the abuse that Muslim women suffered relative to the women of other faiths. Later in the narrative she relates : “A woman came to Muhammad and begged her to stop her husband from beating her. Her skin was bruised so badly that it is described as being “greener” than the green veil she was wearing. Muhammad did not admonish her husband, but instead ordered her to return to him and submit to his sexual desires”.
Sunan Abu Dawud 2141 should also be remembered : – ” Narated Iyas bin ‘Abd Allah bin Abi Dhubab the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Do not beat Allah’s handmaidens, but when ‘Umar came to the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) and said: Women have become emboldened towards their husbands, he (the Prophet) gave permission to beat them.” Muhammad in the beginning forbade men from beating their wives, but he rescinded this ruling rather quickly apparently as it was reported that women were becoming emboldened toward their husbands.
What follows next is instructive : Sunan Abu Dawud 2142 – “The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: A man will not be asked as to why he beat his wife.” But if that admonition remains unclear, we have Sunan Abu Dawud 2126, which clearly states : “A man from the Ansar called Basrah said: ‘I married a virgin woman in her veil. When I entered upon her, I found her pregnant. (I mentioned this to the Prophet).’ The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: ‘She will get the dower, for you made her vagina lawful for you. The child will be your slave. When she has begotten (a child), flog her’ “. A good Muslim marries a woman, thinking her a virgin, then finds out that she is pregnant. Muhammad – divinely inspired – then tells him to treat the woman as if she were a sex slave and flog her after she is delivered of the child.
The Hadith are not the only sources of this toxic tradition. The orthodox biography of Mohammad’s life, the Sirat Rasul Allah has this little gem, among others : Ibn Ishaq-Ibn Hisham 969 states that a married woman should be “put in a separate room and beaten lightly” if at anytime she “act in a sexual manner toward others” including being alone without guardians in the presence of any non-related males. Pretty much like the way you handle a cat on heat….
And this is supposed to prove Islam has some underlying respect for women (ignoring the Shariah provisions that devalue a woman’s witness to half that of a man and all the other lovely provisions)?
gravenimage says
Meretricious Muslim apologist “worldcitizen1919” wrote:
Wife beating is not sanctioned in the Quran or by Muhammad.
That does not stop Muslims or their clergy however from trying to justify it through their religion rather than admit wrong
Another translation of the Quran by the first western woman has translated beat as ‘go away’ as the word used has been the wrong one chosen by many translators.
…………………………………….
This is, of course, utter bullsh*t. Qur’an 4:34 first tells Muslims to refuse to sleep with their wives, *then* to beat them. Here are six different respected translations:
The translators are Rodwell, Dawood, Pickthall, Arberry, Shakir, and Ali.
The first clause is to admonish their wives, then to banish them to beds apart.
The *third* clause is variously translated as “scourge them”, “beat them”, “scourge them”, “beat them”, “beat them”, and “beat them (lightly)”.
All of these translations agree.
Note that Laleh Bakhtiar has been denounced by Khaled Abou El Fadl, Islamic law professor from UCLA, who says she “has a reputation as an editor, not [as] an Islamic scholar”, and that three years of Classical Arabic are not enough. He also “is troubled by a method of translating that relies on dictionaries and other English translations.”
The Islamic Society of North America has banned her books.
In other words, her rewriting of the Qur’an is rejected by Muslim scholars.
Will “worldcitzen1919” try to convince orthodox Muslims that they are wrong about wife beating and the other horrors of the Qur’an?
Of course not–he will just come here and lie to the good Infidels here at Jihad Watch about what the vicious Qur’an actually contains.
As for Edip Yuksel, he has excoriated Anti-Jihadists–including Robert Spencer–as “promoting wars, torture, and genocide against Muslims” for daring to oppose violent Jihad.
More nastiness from him in this article:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/10/name-edip-yuksels-book
If he would lie about those who stand against Muslim violence, why would “worldcitizen1919” think that flogging this creep’s Taqiyya here will be effective?
Adrian says
and not the least of the problems with the Quran quote is that these actions are allowed if one merely “fears” (that is, suspects) disobedience…
as always, the Islamic male is in the driver’s seat
(PS: just like the open-ended 5:33 about the penalties for fighting against Islam, but also “making mischief”…. just like “fearing” disobedience, “making mischief” can be applied to just about anything.)
Champ says
“worldclassclown” is a lost cause serving an evil cause: islam.
Jack Holan says
Yet who does the UN declare the most discriminatory towards women, who has the has the greatest inequality between the sexes of 195 Countries? Israel, of course is the World’s Piñata and even Ban Ki Moon gets in on the action. I’m old fashion and believe in the afterlife, Judgement and G-d. So, one day their hypocrisy will weigh heavy on their shoulders.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that, Jack. There has been a great deal of absurd calumny against democratic Israel, but I had managed to miss this ludicrous accusation:
“UN Claims Israel is World’s Worst Violator of Women’s Rights”
http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/03/20/un-claims-israel-is-worlds-worst-violator-of-womens-rights/#
This is just grimly laughable. Women are not forced to cover, as they are in many Muslim countries, nor are they unable to leave the house without permission of their husbands, nor are they prohibited from driving, nor are they genitally mutilated there, nor forced into child marriages, nor are they enslaved, nor–God knows–are they stoned to death.
Xero_G says
Since this topic is so rarely discussed in polite western society, why is there such a deafening silence from the female Muslim community? If this is common practice, why aren’t Mudlim women protesting loudly everywhere?
Karen says
I’m thinking the Mufti’s wife(s) would find separate rooms a complete blessing.
Pumbar says
Why is the guy in the second video balancing a lampshade on his head?
Is this a fatwa I am unaware of?
Cy Halothrin says
Mufti of Gaza explains how properly to murder your wife
“Indeed, the murder should ‘be like a joke,’ even reinforcing ‘the love and friendship’ between the couple: ‘This murder is a kind of reminder that the love and friendship that Allah commanded, is still found between us (i.e., the couple).’”
gravenimage says
So true, Cy. Often the next step for Muslim men to prevent “disobedience” is *Honor Killing*. And this is, in fact, just what is happening in Gaza and the rest of the “Palestinian territories”:
“Upsurge in Palestinian ‘honour killings'”
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/03/upsurge-palestinian-honour-killings-gaza-201432372831899701.html
Hamas refuses to condemn “Honor Killings” at all. It should come as no surprise to learn that high-ranking men in Hamas have been involved in inciting these atrocities themselves:
“Hamas MP Entangled In Palestinian Honor Killing”
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/09/honor-killing-palestinians-women-rights.html#
Ashley says
“Indeed, the hitting should ‘be like a joke’…
_______________
Well that right there dispels the myth that Muslims don’t possess a sense of humor…
mortimer says
Mufti Hassan Al-Laham demanded: “bring an arbitrator from his family and an arbitrator from her family.”
This is impossible when they are the same family in cousin marriage…which he fails to acknowledge.
When the ‘honor’ of the family is at stake in a family dispute, the woman is normally the victim. She must put up or shut up…if not, she will be honor-killed.
There is no Valentine’s Day, but there is wife-beating. Mufti Hassan Al-Laham is no neophyte, but valid member of the Islamic elite who speaks for Islam.
Are any Feminists paying attention: normative Islam enshrines wife-beating and treating women as second or third class. Mohammed called women ‘prisoners’ and ‘domestic animals’ of men in his final sermon.
vcragain says
And all of us women looking at this wonderful specimen of a man would be honored to be so treated !
Funny I have this strange feeling of ‘yuck’ right now !
Max payne says
Could someone please chop this bastards dick off,he needs a an ass-kicking of a lifetime.
Carolyne says
Has anyone heard of the whereabouts of Lorena Bobbitt recently?
ECAW says
Different translations use terms like “beat”, “beat lightly”, “scourge” etc but the word for word translation here uses the phrase “set forth to”:
http://www.islamawakened.com/quran/4/34/default.htm
I have no idea what that means. Does anyone?
gravenimage says
ECAW, “set forth to” just means “let them know”.
Just like “worldcitizen1919’s” bs, above, this “translation” just omits the part of the Sura sacralizing wife beating entirely.
“Islam Awakened” seems to be spouting yet more whitewash and Taqiyya–even if they ave to leave out big chunks of the vicious Qur’an to do it.
Carolyne says
The instruction to beat a wife isn’t because she has disobeyed the husband, but only because he fears she will. First he is to tell her to stop it. Then he leaves her bed (Presumable to go to the bed of another wife) which would be not a punishment, but a reward, in my estimation, since they have hairy backs and look like gorillas. Probably have fleas, too. Lastly, the size of the stick with which a man beats a wife is limited to the size of his thumb.
Women all over the world, but most especially in Muslim countries are having to live with this abuse? Where are the feminists who complain of males mistreating women, but never mention Islam? Where is Hillary Clinton on this subject–oh yeah, she receives millions from Saudi Arabia, the worst offender.
Celeste Huber says
Can you get this story to all the major media networks to air. If this was about a Christian saying this it would be aired continually. This needs to be exposed continually too.
M says
Its crazy they think people are stupid im a non muslim i cant be with a person who dont know what he wants and a coward before i dont know what islam but after dating a muslim i know how dangerous is there religion. I feel sorry for him his always confuse and torn apart he never know what love is now i know why
Brian says
Yeah……..NOTHING says I love you like a BLACK EYE
Karen says
LOL, especially if the slug in the eye was done “jokingly” (whatever that means).