Because there’s a right way and a wrong way, dontchaknow.
Saudi family therapist Khaled Al-Saqaby released an extremely informative video earlier this year, explaining how Muslim men should properly discipline their wives. Yes, the Quran completely condones beating, but there’s a series of steps the man must take before actually beating her.
First, husbands must give their wives a stern talking to. Remind her of her duties to Allah. (Duties to be a total door mat.) If that doesn’t work, they should “forsake them in bed.” (Something tells me most oppressed Muslim women wouldn’t have a problem with that form of discipline.) If that doesn’t work, THEN they can beat them. But not with a rod. That’s too harsh. They should go with something more toothpick-like.
“It should be done with something like the sewak tooth-cleaning twig or with a handkerchief, because the goal is to merely make the wife feel that she was wrong in the way she treated her husband,” Al-Saqaby said.
According to this family therapist, women are usually the problem, and they deserved to be used and walked all over. In fact, the fact that many women want equality is “a very grave problem.”
h/t Daily Mail