Imam-sanctioned acid attack for being "disrespectful" to the in-laws.
h/t grendelreport.posterous.com
As you read below, please take note that Sa'd Arafat is an Egyptian cleric broadcasting on Egypt TV not an ignorant Taliban provincial hiding up-country.
That’s from the avuncular Muslim cleric Sa’d Arafat, from an interview on Al-Nas TV in Egypt last February, featured by the invaluable MEMRI. You can watch the interview excerpthere. And, since we certainly wouldn’t want to take the sheikh out of context, here’s atranscript (presented without further comment because, well, what more can you say?)
Interviewer: Wife beating is a serious accusation [leveled against Islam]. Let us examine this matter bit by bit.
Sa’d Arafat: Allah honored wives by instating the punishment of beatings.
Interviewer: Honored them with beatings? How is this possible?
Sa’d Arafat: The prophet Muhammad said: “Don’t beat her in the face, and do not make her ugly.” See how she is honored. If the husband beats his wife, he must not beat her in the face. Even when he beats her, he must not curse her. This is incredible! He beats her in order to discipline her.
In addition, there must not be more than ten beatings, and he must not break her bones, injure her, break her teeth, or poke her in the eye. There is a beating etiquette. If he beats to discipline her, he must not raise his hand high. He must beat her from chest level. All these things honor the woman.
She is in need of discipline. How should the husband discipline her? Through admonishment. If she is not deterred, he should refuse to share the bed with her. If she is not repentant, he should beat her, but there are rules to the beating. It is forbidden to beat her in the face or make her ugly. When you beat her, you must not curse her. Islam forbids this.
Interviewer: With what should be beat her? With his bare hand? With a rod?
Sa’d Arafat: If he beats her, the beatings should not be hard, so that they do not leave a mark. He can beat her with a short rod. He must avoid beating her in the face or in places in the head where it hurts. The beatings should be on the body and should not come one right after the other. These are all choices made during the process, but beatings are allowed only as a last resort. [...]
The honoring of the wife in Islam is also evident in the fact that the punishment of beating is permissible in one case only: when she refuses to sleep with him.
Interviewer: When she refuses to sleep with him?
Sa’d Arafat: Yes, because where else could the husband go? He wants her, but she refuses….
- Where are the voices of the Women's Movement condemning this kind of outrageous behavior?
- Where is our foolish President, who apologizes daily for Western values and bows to Saudi princes?
- Where is Code Pink?
Where are the useful idiots of the political left? Usually, they can be found rationalizing and aggressively supporting this deeply misogynistic and backward religion; insuring that it is incorporated into the K-12 curriculum so our children accept the idea that Islam is "peaceful" and that we are not; and ensuring that Islam has a special place in the public sphere (not granted to any other religion) so that they won't be labeled Islamophobic-- that's where they are.
9 comments:
Nah, they are defending the right of Islam to build a Mosque at ground zero right now. You got to have your priorities.
"Celebrate diversity" is what we keep hearing.
In my opinion, anybody who beats up women or promotes it is a punk, ands deserves to get their ass kicked hard and proper.
Essentially Mohammad promotes the practice of spousal beating/rape in the Koran. I don't know how else you can look at it.
And progressives embrace it and roll in the dung and pronounce it perfume... like they do so many things. If you disagree they'll brand you a racist, sexist, xenophobic, Islamaphobe!
Mo-ham-ed was not a nice man. But he excelled at subjugating others to his will. Probably not someone we want oir kids to emulate. I can't see sharia being added to the Boy Scout Motto.
Islam, where the hits just keep on happening.
Coming soon to a sharia court near you...
Race - And that's the point. Islam wants to institute sharia law in the US in the same way as it's doing in Great Britain. So it wouldn't be illegal to beat the crap out of your wife, honor killings and mutilation would be acceptable if carried out in a Koranically acceptable way, etc.
The murder and mutilation elsewhere is bad enough. That it would ever be contemplated as acceptable in the US is unthinkable.
This from the religion of peace...
The pres. is prancing around Europe & the Mid.Est. crowing about how the US has made 'advancements' such that girls/women "feel free to wear the hijab."
God, in heaven, help us!
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