Author:
Publication: The Middle East Media
Research Institute (MEMRI)
Date: August 27, 2004
URL: http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=226
The following are excerpts from
a Friday sermon aired live on Qatar TV on August 27:
We must know that [wife] beating
is a punishment in Islamic religious law. No one should deny this because
this was permitted by the Creator of Man, and because when you purchase
an electric appliance or a car you get instructions - a catalogue, explaining
how to use it. The Creator of Man has sent down this book [the Koran] in
order to show Man which ways he must choose.
We shouldn't be ashamed before the
nations of the world who are still in their days of ignorance, to admit
that these [beatings] are part of our religious law. We must remind the
ignorant from among the Islamic Nation who followed the [West], that those
[westerners] acknowledge the wondrous nature of this verse. There are three
types of women with whom life is impossible without beatings.
In America six million women are
beaten by their husbands every year. These are their own official statistics.
4000-6000 women die as a result of their husbands' beatings. London police,
every year, answer 100,000 phone calls and complaints of attacks against
wives. In France, their slogan is, "Beat the wife morning, noon and night,
and don't ask her why - she knows the reason." But they use their media
to blow this out of proportion. They blow what is happening in the Muslim
countries out of proportion. They bring a woman from South-Eastern Asia
with a swollen face and present her on TV, claiming this was done by a
Muslim who attacked his wife. They forget that Islam is a religion that
forbids beating the face even of beasts. It is forbidden to beat even a
donkey on its face.
The intelligent people in the [West]
admit that a woman does not feel comfort and is not happy unless she's
under a man who commands, forbids, controls, and leads. This is the nature
of people according to Allah's creation. Allah has created woman, whether
Muslim or infidel, so she is happy under a strong man who will protect
her and lives with her. It is not surprising, then, that a French woman
came before a judge in the land of false freedom and equality and said:
"I don't want this husband." The judge asked her: "Why?" and she replied:
"He didn't lead me, didn't oppress me, didn't castigate me, didn't talk
to me violently, didn't say: Don't do this, do that." The judge replied:
"Don't [his actions] support those who call for equality between man and
woman?" The infidel woman answered, "No, no, I don't want him to compete
with me, I want a man who leads and rules me."
This is the nature according to
which Allah created people, but they contaminated and replaced it with
licentiousness and evil. A woman there knows that she lost the battle,
and was mislead in the worst way, and she became like gum that the husband
chews and throws into the filthy garbage can.
[The Koran says:] "and beat them."
This verse is of a wondrous nature. There are three types of women with
whom a man cannot live unless he carries a rod on his shoulder. The first
type is a girl who was brought up this way. Her parents ask her to go to
school and she doesn't - they beat her. "Eat" - "I don't want to" - they
beat her. So she became accustomed to beatings, she was brought up that
way. We pray Allah will help her husband later. He will only get along
with her if he practices wife beating.
The second type is a woman who is
condescending towards her husband and ignores him. With her, too, only
a rod will help. The third type is a twisted woman who will not obey her
husband unless he oppresses her, beats her, uses force against her, and
overpowers her with his voice.
