There is domestic violence in all cultures, but only in one does it have divine sanction.
The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “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’s child bride, Aisha, says in a hadith that 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?’” — Sahih Muslim 2127
An another hadith states: “Rifa`a divorced his wife whereupon `AbdurRahman bin Az-Zubair Al-Qurazi married her. `Aisha said that the lady (came), wearing a green veil (and complained to her (Aisha) of her husband and showed her a green spot on her skin caused by beating). It was the habit of ladies to support each other, so when Allah’s Messenger came, Aisha said, ‘I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women. Look! Her skin is greener than her clothes!’” — Sahih Bukhari 7.77.5825
“Pakistan’s Islamic Council halts legislation on Domestic Violence Bill,” ANI, July 10, 2021:
The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) on Friday halted legislation on Domestic Violence Bill in 2020 saying the Islamic constitutional body needs to review and gave its findings to the Pakistan government.
They expressed reservations on several provisions of the bill. The opinion of the CII was conveyed to the Human Rights Ministry in the third week of June only after the bill generated controversy following its passage in the Senate, reported The News International.
The CII considered the bill in November 2020 after it was laid before the National Assembly (NA). The bill is presently with the NA Secretariat and is to be tabled again before the National Assembly to endorse the amendments made by the Senate and to make it an act.
After its passage in the Senate, the bill attracted serious controversy among many, including parliamentarians, political leaders, including Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Amir Sirajul Haq, Senator Mushtaq Ahmad and Jamiat Ulema-e Islam of Fazal-ur-Rehman (JUI-F) Senator Atta-ur-Rehman, religious scholars and opinion-makers, who raised objections and dubbed it highly objectionable.
It was demanded by the Imran government, through the media and social media, to refer the bill to the CII because several of its provisions were considered against the teachings of Islam, reported The News International.
Following public pressure, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s advisor on Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan formally approached Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser and asked the latter to refer the bill to the CII.
Babar Awan wrote a letter on the direction of Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was also told about some ‘un-Islamic provisions’ included in the bill. Sources said that even on Tuesday, the PM in the cabinet meeting told his ministers that it is the right decision to refer the matter to the CII.
Although the CII has yet to receive any reference on the issue from the Speaker of the National Assembly, senior figures in the Council told The News International that the Human Rights Ministry has already been informed by the Council not to go ahead with legislation on the bill because of the constitutional body’s reservations about several provisions….
Wellington says
“It’s against teachings of Islam.”
You’re damn right it is. And why, as merely one example, Islam is a menace to Western Civilization—to a true Golden Rule for all—to liberty—to equality under the law—most certainly to real women’s rights, etc.
It’s a long, very long, list, and why I place shame on EVERY adult Muslim with the exception of those who are pretending to be Muslim because of the death for apostasy demand that Islam requires to this day and/or because of possible total estrangement from family.
This is the “bed” you made, Islam. And it’s a very deficient bed at that. None more so of any ideology, secular or religious, over the greatest period of time.
Sick of Islam. Why isn’t most everyone by now?
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Council of Islamic Ideology halts Domestic Violence Bill, it’s ‘against teachings of Islam’
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Nothing more Islamic than beating your wives.
God, I hate Islam.
June Skelton says
Each and every religion was a male invention. Islam is merely the one that makes it clearer than others that the female must be subservient to the male and have fewer rights.
gravenimage says
Actually, women have equally rights in Jewish and Christian-majority nations.
Certainly not in Islam, though.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
What a crappy piece of expository writing (Quran 4:34)!:
“Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other [made the one *what* superior to the other what? Blood type O superior to non-O blood?], and because they [who?] spend their wealth to maintain them [whom?]. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. [What unseen parts? Their internal organs, like their spleens? Men guard their unseen parts too. What is the “them” that Allah has guarded? Good women, or good women’s unseen parts? And in what way has Allah guarded these unseen parts? By hiding them inside an opaque skin?]”
OLD GUY says
Let’s see Islam the MANS religion promotes dominance over women and girls, the only thing missing for men is BEER. I wonder how islam missed that?
On a serious note human rights should be equal for all. no matter gender, race or religion, PERIOD.
gravenimage says
Muslim men get beer and houris in “paradise”.
Goofy says
Pakistan is consistent with what happens in other Muslim nations. In Morocco there is legislation in place to protect against physical violence in the family but neither police nor other authorities make themselves available for implementation of the legislation. In Turkey which is presently cancelling Atatürk the first thing they do is to scrap legislation which protects women!
It is beyond me that any woman can be a Muslim for any other reason than the reprisals for leaving Islam.
gravenimage says
And yet you often find Muslim women enforcing the horrors of Islam on other women–and not always under duress.
fadeye@yahoo.com says
Islamic domestic violence is one of your wives talking back to you, lol!