| That last bit is really the crux of the situation, though. The laws you cite really aren't practiced. But beating your wife is very common in the Muslim community. We look at laws like that and think they are silly. Muslim men look at the beating of their wives as not only a right but an allah-ordained obligation.
Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. -- Song 8:6 |