Re: [****] Islam and Positions on Wife Beating

Whatever; I'm not not slow in criticizing Islam when there are
justified and non-hypocritical criticisms to be made, but on this
issue Western countries don't necessarily have a record to be all that
proud of -- when you look at the historical record, it was not so very
long ago (the late 19th century) that men in English-speaking
countries had an almost unquestioned right to use "moderate physical
chastisement" on their wives according to the traditional rules of
Common law; one court in the nineteenth-century U.S. ruled that:

   "the law permits (a man) to use towards his wife such a degree of
   force, as is necessary to control an unruly temper, and make her
   behave herself; and unless some permanent injury be inflicted, or
   there be an excess of violence, or such a degree of cruelty as
   shows that it is inflicted to gratify his own bad passions, the
   law will not invade the domestic forum, or go behind the
   curtain."

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