Saudi TV presenter Ranya el-Baz. She allegedly survived
a brutal assault by a jealous husband who was "protecting
her honour".
Cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of women such as wives
and domestic servants from Asian countries is an acute problem
in wealthy Arab countries. Domestic violence or, more precisely,
wife-beating is widespread in all Arab countries and other
countries burdened by the yoke of Arab colonialism, such as
the Maldives.
Whenever the issue is raised, detractors hasten to parrot
out a litany of statistics of domestic violence here in the
civilised world. The Western statistics are extensive because
there are systems in place that make it easy for victims to
seek legal redress. Few care to point out that in the West
no one claims that wife-beating is a divine right of men over
women.
The following are excerpts from a Friday
sermon aired live on Qatar television on 27 August 2004 (source:
MEMRI
TV Monitor Project. The transcript is reproduced
here with their kind permission):
"[The Koran says:]
'and beat them.' This verse is of a wondrous nature.
There are three types of women with whom a man cannot live unless
he carries a rod on his shoulder."We
must know that [wife] beating is a punishment in Islamic religious
law. No one should deny this because this was permitted by the Creator
of Man, and because when you purchase an electric appliance or a
car you get instructions - a catalogue, explaining how to use it.
The Creator of Man has sent down this book [the Koran] in order
to show Man which ways he must choose.
We shouldn't be ashamed before the nations of the world who are
still in their days of ignorance, to admit that these [beatings]
are part of our religious law. We must remind the ignorant from
among the Islamic Nation who followed the [West], that those [westerners]
acknowledge the wondrous nature of this verse. There are three types
of women with whom life is impossible without beatings.
In America six million women are beaten by their husbands every
year. These are their own official statistics. 4000-6000 women die
as a result of their husbands' beatings. London police, every year,
answer 100,000 phone calls and complaints of attacks against wives.
In France, their slogan is, "Beat the wife morning, noon and
night, and don't ask her why – she knows the reason."
But they use their media to blow this out of proportion. They blow
what is happening in the Muslim countries out of proportion. They
bring a woman from South-Eastern Asia with a swollen face and present
her on TV, claiming this was done by a Muslim who attacked his wife.
They forget that Islam is a religion that forbids beating the face
even of beasts. It is forbidden to beat even a donkey on its face."The
third type is a twisted woman who will not obey her husband unless
he oppresses her, beats her, uses force against her, and overpowers
her with his voice."
The intelligent people in the [West] admit that a woman does not
feel comfort and is not happy unless she's under a man who commands,
forbids, controls, and leads. This is the nature of people according
to Allah's creation. Allah has created woman, whether Muslim or
infidel, so she is happy under a strong man who will protect her
and lives with her. It is not surprising, then, that a French woman
came before a judge in the land of false freedom and equality and
said: "I don't want this husband." The judge asked her:
"Why?" and she replied: "He didn't lead me, didn't
oppress me, didn't castigate me, didn't talk to me violently, didn't
say: Don’t do this, do that." The judge replied: "Don't
[his actions] support those who call for equality between man and
woman?" The infidel woman answered, "No, no, I don't want
him to compete with me, I want a man who leads and rules me."
This is the nature according to which Allah created people, but
they contaminated and replaced it with licentiousness and evil.
A woman there knows that she lost the battle, and was mislead in
the worst way, and she became like gum that the husband chews and
throws into the filthy garbage can.
Arab missionaries and a local collaborator in the Maldives
drumming in bedouin values to an unsuspecting audience.
This is the vanguard of Arab colonialism whose mission is
to obliterate the local heritage.
[The Koran says:] "and beat them."
This verse is of a wondrous nature. There are three types of women
with whom a man cannot live unless he carries a rod on his shoulder.
The first type is a girl who was brought up this way. Her parents
ask her to go to school and she doesn't – they beat her. "Eat"
– "I don't want to" – they beat her. So she
became accustomed to beatings, she was brought up that way. We pray
Allah will help her husband later. He will only get along with her
if he practices wife beating.
The second type is a woman who is condescending towards her husband
and ignores him. With her, too, only a rod will help. The third
type is a twisted woman who will not obey her husband unless he
oppresses her, beats her, uses force against her, and overpowers
her with his voice.
In the civilised
world, wife-beating is a crime. Perpetrators are exposed
and punished.
In the Arab colonialist world, wife beating is a "holy"
tradition. Perpetrators are protected and commended.
Men are the maintainers of women
because Allah has made some of them to excel others and
because they spend out of their property; the good women
are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has
guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion,
admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places
and beat them; then if they obey you, do
not seek a way against them; surely Allah is High, Great.
-Koran:
Surah el-Nisaa verse 34 translated by Shakir
Ibn Kathir in his Commentary mentioned a Hadith on the
authority of Ash'ath bin el-Qays who was visiting the commander
of the faithful Omar bin el-Khattab and at that time Omar
took his wife and beat her, then said to Ash'ath:
'memorise three things from me, which I memorised from the
prophet who said: "The man is not to be asked why he
beat his wife ..."'
(This Hadith is also
related by Abu Dawood in Chapter 709 #2142 of Sunan
and ibn Majah)
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