Despite the fact that honour killings are a cultural phenomenon, and not a religious one, I can see, from the passage of the qu'ran that I put in post number 2, which I will include in this one, encased again in "quotes", that in Islam, if your wife disobeys you - actually worse, if you fear she is disobeying you ... then you may send her to a separate bed and BEAT her.
Spousal abuse is not only tolerated in Islam, but it's mandated in the holiest of all Muslim Holy writ.
And from the quote below, I'd like to make 3 commonsense observations
( 1 ) The man is superior to the woman. Superior.
( 2 ) The wife must obey the man, as he is superior, no matter how twisted his mind, what fetishes he has or desires, the woman must always submit - every single time.
( 3 ) If the guy - so much as thinks - (in his insecure and deluded mind) that his wife is "disobeying" him - in any way shape or form then he is permitted to beat her up.
here it is below (if you think the translation is bad, I can get you 4 or 5 other translations - they'll all make you sick)
Qu'Ran
Men have authority over women because God 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 God has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. Then if they obey you, take no further action against them. Surely God is high, supreme.
translation: Dawood
Ya ... peaceful religion, right?
Let's not offend them, right?
With the full hijab and burka etc, it's hard to see the bruises.
I for one am disgusted at the idea, not only that the man is superior to the woman, but that relentless disobedience is needed, and that a man can beat up his wife, even if in his small, deluded, no-self-esteem brain, he thinks she's disobedient to him in any way, shape or form.
Can anyone here justify tolerance of the above?
