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What do you get when Muslums and Liberals collide? Good humor...
An Islamic guide on how to beat your wife
By Isambard Wilkinson
LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH
September 29, 2005
MADRID -- An imam who wrote a book on how to beat your wife without leaving marks on her body has been ordered by a judge in Spain to study the country's constitution.
[Understand now that he didn't build the bomb, he wrote a book on how to build a bomb. Metaphoricaly speaking.]
The judge told Mohamed Kamal Mustafa, imam of a mosque in the southern resort of Fuengirola, to spend six months studying three articles of the constitution and the universal declaration of human rights.
Mr. Mustafa was sentenced to 15 months in jail and fined about $2,600 last year after being found guilty of inciting violence against women.
[A stiff penality for writing a book to be sure. Don't hold the people who are beating their wives accountable. That would be wrong. Lets blame the book and it's author instead.]
A judge released him after 22 days in jail on the condition that he undertake a re-education course.
[a re-education course!]
The Spanish government has set up a commission to find ways for the Muslim community to regulate itself. A central recommendation is that imams speak Spanish and have a basic knowledge of human rights and Spanish law.
[Would that not be prudent for any immigrant? Why are they starting this now? One would think that for the age of their culture they would have a better handle on things...]
In his book "Women in Islam," published four years ago, Mr. Mustafa wrote that verbal warnings followed by a period of sexual inactivity could be used to discipline a disobedient wife.
If that failed, he argued that, according to Islamic law, beatings could be judiciously administered.
"The blows should be concentrated on the hands and feet using a rod that is thin and light so that it does not leave scars or bruises on the body," he wrote.
["spare the rod, spoil the child" was a phrase quite common here just 2 generations ago. I guess the Muslums aren't that far behind us after all]
Mr. Mustafa's lessons, which he must pay for, will be taught by teachers from Malaga University.
[Were it in Canada, the federal government would have picked up the tab.]
According to La Vanguardia newspaper, he will have to study articles 10, 14 and 15 of the constitution. The first two address "the dignity of a person and inviolable rights" and states "all Spaniards are equal before the law."
[How does one define the "dignity of a person"? Is it not relative? Does a prostitute have as much dignity as a judge? Does a smelly hippie without a job have as much dignity as a Married father of 3 who does have a steady job? Is dignity not something that comes from within? Gotta love lib-speak...]
The third one states "the moral and physical integrity of a person in no case can be submitted to torture nor inhuman or degrading punishments or treatment."
[WTF is the "moral integrity" of a person?]
Any wagers on how long before the judge in question gets blowed-up causing spain to cave into the Muslums just as so many other countries have?
An Islamic guide on how to beat your wife
By Isambard Wilkinson
LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH
September 29, 2005
MADRID -- An imam who wrote a book on how to beat your wife without leaving marks on her body has been ordered by a judge in Spain to study the country's constitution.
[Understand now that he didn't build the bomb, he wrote a book on how to build a bomb. Metaphoricaly speaking.]
The judge told Mohamed Kamal Mustafa, imam of a mosque in the southern resort of Fuengirola, to spend six months studying three articles of the constitution and the universal declaration of human rights.
Mr. Mustafa was sentenced to 15 months in jail and fined about $2,600 last year after being found guilty of inciting violence against women.
[A stiff penality for writing a book to be sure. Don't hold the people who are beating their wives accountable. That would be wrong. Lets blame the book and it's author instead.]
A judge released him after 22 days in jail on the condition that he undertake a re-education course.
[a re-education course!]
The Spanish government has set up a commission to find ways for the Muslim community to regulate itself. A central recommendation is that imams speak Spanish and have a basic knowledge of human rights and Spanish law.
[Would that not be prudent for any immigrant? Why are they starting this now? One would think that for the age of their culture they would have a better handle on things...]
In his book "Women in Islam," published four years ago, Mr. Mustafa wrote that verbal warnings followed by a period of sexual inactivity could be used to discipline a disobedient wife.
If that failed, he argued that, according to Islamic law, beatings could be judiciously administered.
"The blows should be concentrated on the hands and feet using a rod that is thin and light so that it does not leave scars or bruises on the body," he wrote.
["spare the rod, spoil the child" was a phrase quite common here just 2 generations ago. I guess the Muslums aren't that far behind us after all]
Mr. Mustafa's lessons, which he must pay for, will be taught by teachers from Malaga University.
[Were it in Canada, the federal government would have picked up the tab.]
According to La Vanguardia newspaper, he will have to study articles 10, 14 and 15 of the constitution. The first two address "the dignity of a person and inviolable rights" and states "all Spaniards are equal before the law."
[How does one define the "dignity of a person"? Is it not relative? Does a prostitute have as much dignity as a judge? Does a smelly hippie without a job have as much dignity as a Married father of 3 who does have a steady job? Is dignity not something that comes from within? Gotta love lib-speak...]
The third one states "the moral and physical integrity of a person in no case can be submitted to torture nor inhuman or degrading punishments or treatment."
[WTF is the "moral integrity" of a person?]
Any wagers on how long before the judge in question gets blowed-up causing spain to cave into the Muslums just as so many other countries have?
posted by Richard at 06:32
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