Egyptian Cleric Promotes the "Virtues" of Sharia Law: ' Allah Honored Wives by Instating the Punishment of Beatings '

Oh yeah, the ad campaign for Sharia Law in America continues - I'm guessing it's not being QUITE as effective with the women of America but we really can't tell for sure...because NO ONE in America has the balls or the female equivalent to stand up to this bloody farce.

This article at Family Security Matters recounts an interview with an Egyptian muslim cleric...the clown decides to enlighten us all on Sharia Law and how the Qur'an ensures that women are honored by their husband "softly" beating the shit out of them.

Take a look:

Interviewer: Wife beating is a serious accusation [leveled against Islam]. Let us examine this matter bit by bit.

Sa’d Arafat: Allah honored wives by instating the punishment of beatings.

Interviewer: Honored them with beatings? How is this possible?


Sa’d Arafat: The prophet Muhammad said: “Don’t beat her in the face, and do not make her ugly.” See how she is honored. If the husband beats his wife, he must not beat her in the face. Even when he beats her, he must not curse her. This is incredible! He beats her in order to discipline her.

In addition, there must not be more than ten beatings, and he must not break her bones, injure her, break her teeth, or poke her in the eye. There is a beating etiquette. If he beats to discipline her, he must not raise his hand high. He must beat her from chest level. All these things honor the woman.

She is in need of discipline. How should the husband discipline her? Through admonishment. If she is not deterred, he should refuse to share the bed with her. If she is not repentant, he should beat her, but there are rules to the beating. It is forbidden to beat her in the face or make her ugly. When you beat her, you must not curse her. Islam forbids this.

Well, now isn't THAT a relief? When a muslim husbands beats the ever living shit out of his wife he is FORBIDDEN from calling her a slut!

Don't you find it absolutely unfathomable that this is an interview taking place in 2010? I've seen this interview on video over at MEMRI and quite frankly, it's like you transported videography equipment back to the 8th century. But hey, the movement of "tolerance" in America just keeps on rolling along. Americans are supposed to fall in line with the edict of the Left that Islam IS a religion and that we simply need to turn our heads the other way as these atrocities carry on each and every day.

The Left in America has worked tirelessly to try and bring down the Roman Catholic Church due to the instances of priest abuse of children, yet not a single word has been uttered by them regarding the clitoral circumcisions of young girls in Islam....or the beatings of women for refusing sex to their husbands...or the women convicted of adultery who were actually raped. Nothing but crickets, man, when it comes to the "religion" of Mo.

Let's get real. If you stand up at a public rally and scream out, "the Christians in America are fanatics and should be forbidden from any public worship", you'd get a standing ovation by the Left. If you stand up at a public rally and scream out, "the Islamists are following a fake religion that promotes death and abuse and it must be fought", you'd be attacked with signs and shouts of blasphemy and you would subsequently be arrested for hate speech and sued by CAIR.

Welcome to America, 2010.

Annals of Sharia: "Allah Honored Wives by Instating the Punishment of Beatings."


That’s from the avuncular Muslim cleric Sa’d Arafat, from an interview on Al-Nas TV in Egypt last February, featured by the invaluable MEMRI. You can watch the interview excerpt here. And, since we certainly wouldn’t want to take the sheikh out of context, here’s a transcript (presented without further comment because, well, what more can you say?):

Interviewer: Wife beating is a serious accusation [leveled against Islam]. Let us examine this matter bit by bit.

Sa’d Arafat: Allah honored wives by instating the punishment of beatings.

Interviewer: Honored them with beatings? How is this possible?


Sa’d Arafat: The prophet Muhammad said: “Don’t beat her in the face, and do not make her ugly.” See how she is honored. If the husband beats his wife, he must not beat her in the face. Even when he beats her, he must not curse her. This is incredible! He beats her in order to discipline her.

In addition, there must not be more than ten beatings, and he must not break her bones, injure her, break her teeth, or poke her in the eye. There is a beating etiquette. If he beats to discipline her, he must not raise his hand high. He must beat her from chest level. All these things honor the woman.

She is in need of discipline. How should the husband discipline her? Through admonishment. If she is not deterred, he should refuse to share the bed with her. If she is not repentant, he should beat her, but there are rules to the beating. It is forbidden to beat her in the face or make her ugly. When you beat her, you must not curse her. Islam forbids this.

Interviewer: With what should be beat her? With his bare hand? With a rod?

Sa’d Arafat: If he beats her, the beatings should not be hard, so that they do not leave a mark. He can beat her with a short rod. He must avoid beating her in the face or in places in the head where it hurts. The beatings should be on the body and should not come one right after the other. These are all choices made during the process, but beatings are allowed only as a last resort. [...]

The honoring of the wife in Islam is also evident in the fact that the punishment of beating is permissible in one case only: when she refuses to sleep with him.

Interviewer: When she refuses to sleep with him?

Sa’d Arafat: Yes, because where else could the husband go? He wants her, but she refuses….