This has got everyone talking down under today.
A senior Australian Muslim leader has said using violence against women is a “last resort” for men in dealing with relationship issues.
Which means once you have past the first 2 steps of counselling and buying chocolates or “taking her out on a dinner”.
Then it is ok to beat her.
In this day of promoting NO VIOLENCE against Women (or any partner in a relationship), I find this quite abhorrent.
It is funny that the Australian left side of politics is being quiet on this one.
Should it then be culturally acceptable for some religions to be allowed to bash their female partners?
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new...dc5d8f4c158685
A senior Muslim leader has said using violence against women is a “last resort” for men in dealing with relationship issues.
President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils Keysar Trad described beating women as “step three” in a process of dealing with issues in relationships, after counselling and buying chocolates or “taking her out on a dinner”.
“The first thing you must do is counselling ... Before you even consider using your hand, before you consider an act of violence, have you checked box number one?
“Maybe next time you should bring her a bunch of flowers, maybe next time you should bring her a box of chocolates, maybe next time you should take her out to dinner.
Mr Trad argued that what the text was saying was that “a good person would never get to that step because the first step would eliminate the problem”.
“When you sit down and talk about it and say I’ve become angry about something, I go to my wife and say what happens, I say I’m sorry I was wrong, I made the wrong assumption, so you never get to step three,” he said.
“This is the psychology.”
“And then beat her. If you still don’t see sense, beat her. That’s what that says. I’m reading the Koran.”