All you rebellious wives out there... pay attention:

Here's what the President of Al-Azhar University and former Mufti of Egypt, Dr. Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, had to say about wife beating...

In a nutshell, it appeared as part of a program to reform the wife. [According to the Koran], first "admonish them," [then] "sleep in separate beds, and beat them."

Check the video here.

So, where is the feminist outcry? Well, according to Christina Hoff Sommers at The Weekly Standard,

The women who constitute the American feminist establishment today are destined to play little role in the battle for Muslim women's rights. Preoccupied with their own imagined oppression, they can be of little help to others--especially family-centered Islamic feminists. The Katha Pollitts and Eve Enslers, the vagina warriors and university gender theorists--these are women who cannot distinguish between free and unfree societies, between the Taliban and the Promise Keepers, between being forced to wear a veil and being socially pressured to be slender and fit. Their moral obtuseness leads many of them to regard helping Muslim women as "colonialist" or as part of a "hegemonic" "civilizing mission." It disqualifies them as participants in this moral fight.

Meanwhile, in London, someone is already saying that an Islamic London would be a better place.

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