Gimme fifteen minutes with Buck here.
Posted on 12/20/2004 8:21:33 PM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John
BARCELONA – The imam who was jailed for writing a book about how to hit women without leaving marks has been released after just 20 days behind bars.
Mohamed Kamal Mostafa, the imam of Fuengirola in Andalusia, was jailed last month for one year.
But he has been released and must go on a training course to learn about human rights.
Legal sources said he was released early because his imprisonment would not help his reintegration into society.
The course would be more likely to reform his ideas, they added.
But womens' groups were expected to object to the early release of the controversial imam.
Mustafa was originally given a 15-month sentence and fined EUR 2,160 when he became the first person found guilty of instigating gender-based violence under a recently-passed law in January.
A federation of 80 women's rights groups filed a complaint against Mustafa, one of the most prestigious Muslim clerics based in Spain, for a book he published in 2000 entitled The Islamic Woman.
The court heard how the book talks about how men should treat women 'rebels'.
Mustafa wrote that men should strike their women "on the hands and feet, making sure to use a cudgel that is not too thick so as not to leave permanent scar tissue".
"Inflict blows that are not too strong nor too hard, because the aim is to make them suffer psychologically and not to humiliate them or mistreat them physically," he said.
The judges found that the cleric "openly flaunts the principles of equality enshrined in the Constitution, advocating intolerable types of conduct based on sexual discrimination that are liable to criminal prosecution".
All copies of the book have been seized after an order was made by the judge.
Under Spanish law, however, first-time offenders do not have to serve jail terms of less than two years, so the sentence amounts to probation and a fine.
Lock him up and throw away the key!!!
Gimme fifteen minutes with Buck here.
"imprisonment would not help his reintegration into society"
Well, heavens no!! I mean, living in a prison society for all of 20 days makes it hard for one to reintegrate when he gets out! I don't know how this poor man will be able to land and hold a job, what having been imprisoned for so long! I think he could be at a high risk to re-offend just to go back in because he can't make it on the outside!!
Good Lord. Next World War, Us against Europe. They are committed to combine medieval serfdom to communism and love it. Europe has never understood freedom.
Under Britain's proposed new law, wouldn't it be a hate-crime to even have complained about his book? You would be insulting islamic beliefs.
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