Evil ideologies employ evil justifications. They endure, not because people believe the justifications but because they are enforced by brutality and terror. Religious evil ideologies are the worst of all, for they claim divine sanction, which cannot be questioned for fear of ultimate eternal punishment. Those who champion some evil system find themselves willing […]
Islamic scholar: ‘The husband’s beating of his wife should be a therapeutic beating’
“It should be a therapeutic beating, rather than a vindictive one.” All right, but this distinction is highly subjective. 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 […]