Palestinian leader gives wife-beating tips on Gaza TV [Zephaniah 2]

A top spiritual leader in the Palestinian territory of Gaza told a television audience last week how and when men can beat their wives, advising not to hit them in a way that "makes the face ugly." The shocking interview with Hassan Al-Laham, who holds the title "mufti of Gaza," came during a weekly Palestinian Authority TV program on social issues. Explaining that divorce must be a last resort in Islam, Al-Laham laid out the four steps that should come first.

"Allah said: Warn them [the wives], and separate from them, and hit them, and bring an arbitrator from his family and an arbitrator from her family," he said.

Al-Laham, whose title makes him the top spiritual leader appointed by the Palestinian Authority, then went into detail about how a husband should hit a wife.

"Not hitting that will bring the police, and break her hand and cause bleeding, or hitting that makes the face ugly," he said. The hitting should "be like a joke," even reinforcing "the love and friendship" between the couple, he said...

Islam condones wife beating, sodomy, pederasty, rape, and many other perversions. Where is the feminist outrage? Where are the Boycotts Divestments and Sanctions from Western Governments and the United Nations? Will Oprah, Obama, and the progressives / feminists hold rallies for Gazan women? Of course not! Only conservative Jews and Christians can be guilty of outrages worthy of these groups. What are the Jewish and Christian outrages? Daring to believe that the God of the Bible gave men and women rights, dignity, and land! A great judgment is coming on Gaza (Palestine), the nation not desired, because of its sins against God, its own people, and the nation of Israel. Though the United Nations seeks to create a Palestinian State, the God of the Bible predicts that Gaza will be destroyed before this comes to pass...

Zephaniah 2:1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; 2 Before the decree bring forth , before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger come upon you. 3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger. 4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. 5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

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