This week continues a sura that lays out details of the proper behavior and treatment of women under Islam:
Wife-beating exists in all cultures, but only in Islam does it enjoy divine sanction. Amnesty International reports that “according to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, over 90% of married women report being kicked, slapped, beaten or sexually abused when husbands were dissatisfied by their cooking or cleaning, or when the women had ‘failed’ to bear a child or had given birth to a girl instead of a boy.”
Aisha herself said it: “I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women.”
A Christian women may grouse about St. Paul advising her to be submissive to her husband (it were wiser that a more expansive reading of Paul include Galatians 3:28 and 1 Corinthians 7 among others) but nowhere does any Christian source condone wife-beating.
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Previous posts:
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Sura 2, Part 1
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Sura 2, Part 2
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Sura 2, Part 3
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Sura 2, Part 4
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Sura 2, Part 5
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Sura 2, Part 6
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Sura 3, Part 1
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Sura 3, Part 2
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Sura 3, Part 3
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Sura 3, Part 4
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Sura 4, Part 1
