Challenging the Divine — Does Qur’anic Verse 4:34 Deliver a Free Pass for Muslim Men to Beat Their Wives?
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2022 5:04 am
Challenging the Divine — Does Qur’anic Verse 4:34 Deliver a Free Pass for Muslim Men to Beat Their Wives?
"Genesis 3:16 of the Bible and the Torah provides an inkling of the place held by women in two of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism and Christianity. In every single translation of that verse, pain and submission are identified as a woman’s lot in life. In the King James Version we find, “ Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”
"This quote, translated from Arabic, clearly seems to grant men the right, nay, the obligation, to commit domestic violence against their wives should they perceive her behavior as inappropriate, stubborn, or promiscuous. That supposedly divine doctrine has guided the fists, belts, shoes, and sticks of too many Muslim husbands in the past 1500 years. This is not to say that Christian men, Jewish men, and male devotees of other religions don’t beat their wives. In the US, for example, 20 people per minute are victimized by some form of domestic violence or abuse, spiritual devotions notwithstanding. Abroad, especially in patriarchal cultural systems, the number per capita may be even higher, resulting in an array of horrors including permanent or temporary injury, PTSD, psychological problems, thoughts of and actual suicide, and multi-pronged damage to any children involved."
https://medium.com/illumination/challen ... e91479558a
Is this the most controversial verse in the Qur'an?
https://youtu.be/kofEZyh678w
[ this may be the best book--The Qur'an and the Abuse of Women Volume 3 - Qur'an Unchained
J R Ahmed (author)]
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archive / Forged Writing in the Name of God—Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
Bart D. Ehrman
[he has other books all available at archive]
"Genesis 3:16 of the Bible and the Torah provides an inkling of the place held by women in two of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism and Christianity. In every single translation of that verse, pain and submission are identified as a woman’s lot in life. In the King James Version we find, “ Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”
"This quote, translated from Arabic, clearly seems to grant men the right, nay, the obligation, to commit domestic violence against their wives should they perceive her behavior as inappropriate, stubborn, or promiscuous. That supposedly divine doctrine has guided the fists, belts, shoes, and sticks of too many Muslim husbands in the past 1500 years. This is not to say that Christian men, Jewish men, and male devotees of other religions don’t beat their wives. In the US, for example, 20 people per minute are victimized by some form of domestic violence or abuse, spiritual devotions notwithstanding. Abroad, especially in patriarchal cultural systems, the number per capita may be even higher, resulting in an array of horrors including permanent or temporary injury, PTSD, psychological problems, thoughts of and actual suicide, and multi-pronged damage to any children involved."
https://medium.com/illumination/challen ... e91479558a
Is this the most controversial verse in the Qur'an?
https://youtu.be/kofEZyh678w
[ this may be the best book--The Qur'an and the Abuse of Women Volume 3 - Qur'an Unchained
J R Ahmed (author)]
free gift
archive / Forged Writing in the Name of God—Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
Bart D. Ehrman
[he has other books all available at archive]