Posted on 10/19/2010 1:17:36 PM PDT by Justaham
A court in the United Arab Emirates says a man is permitted under Islamic law to physically discipline his wife and children as long as he leaves no marks and has tried other methods of punishment, the country's top court ruled.
The ruling came in the case of a man who slapped his wife and slapped and kicked his 23-year-old daughter, the document said.
The daughter had bruises on her right hand and right knee and the wife had injuries to her lower lip and teeth, the ruling said.
The court ruled that a man has the right to punish his wife and children. That includes beating them, after he has tried other options, such as admonition and then abstaining from sleeping with his wife.
However, the court ruled that in this case the man exceeded his authority under sharia, or Islamic law. His wife was beaten too severely and his daughter was too old to be disciplined, the ruling said.
"Although the [law] permits the husband to use his right [to discipline], he has to abide by the limits of this right," wrote Chief Justice Falah al Hajeri in a ruling issued this month and released in a court document recently. It was reported in the English-language publication The National.
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What’s the world coming to when you can’t leave marks on your wife?!?
Abstaining from sleeping with the husband sounds like a welcome relief.
Next politician who is asked “Are you still beating your wife” should answer, “Not as often as Islamic law would permit”.
Next politician who is asked “Are you still beating your wife” should answer, “Not as often as Islamic law would permit”.
watch for sales of oranges and white tube socks to skyrocket.
Are the liberal US courts going to consider “foreign law”?
And still, we will have stupid Euros and ignorant Americans going to vacation there.
Fly Emirates? How about F@&*k Emirates....
He can’t be so cruel that he would refuse to have sex with her. I’m sure she was all hot and horned up after he beat the stuffing out of her. These people are ridiculous.
Well, my dad wouldn’t have made it as a Muslim.
“discipline his wife”
What in the $%$@#@! does that mean? Those people are truly stuck in the sixth and seventh centuries.
I thought the rule in Islam was that wives could be beaten so long as the rod was no thicker than the little finger.
The ruling came in the case of a man who slapped his wife and slapped and kicked his 23-year-old daughter... The daughter had bruises on her right hand and right knee and the wife had injuries to her lower lip and teeth, the ruling said. The court ruled that a man has the right to punish his wife and children... after he has tried other options, such as admonition and then abstaining from sleeping with his wife.She would consider that to be punishment?
However, the court ruled that in this case the man exceeded his authority under sharia, or Islamic law. His wife was beaten too severely and his daughter was too old to be disciplined, the ruling said.Plus, he left some marks. The fine will be 50 dirham and time served. ;')
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