Domestic Terrorism in United Arab Emirates

[SassyLady]

For everyone who says that it's just the Muslim extremists who are committing acts of terrorism.

In the UAE it's OK to beat your wife and children....as long as you don't leave any overt evidence. Apparently, if one leaves bruises, the only thing he did wrong was to abuse his right to discipline...not abuse of his family.....what sane religion/culture/society thinks this is logical?



The highest court in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ruled that a man is allowed to beat his wife and children as long as he does not leave bruises or other marks, local newspaper The National reported Monday.
"Although the [law] permits the husband to use his right [to discipline], he has to abide by the limits of this right," wrote Chief Justice Falah al Hajeri in a ruling issued this month and released in a court document Sunday.
The limit, as the court defines it, is physical evidence of a beating that takes the accepted punishment to a more severe level. According to Islamic law, the man of the house is permitted to use physical discipline against his family if admonishing them and abstaining from sex with his wife do not work.
Judges were forced to clarify the legal boundaries of beating after a UAE man slapped and kicked his daughter and wife, leaving bruises and facial injuries on them.
Bruises and other physical marks were evidence, the court said, that the man had abused his right to discipline.

<DL style="POSITION: static" class="related-mod related-mod-2" jQuery1287435616898="164" sizset="6" sizcache="204"><DT>While many modern Islamic scholars and lawmakers denounce the practice of beating one’s family members, some maintain it is an appropriate response to a family problem</DT></DL>

"If a wife committed something wrong, a husband can report her to police," Dr. Ahmed al Kubaisi, head of Sharia Studies at UAE and Baghdad (http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/iraq/baghdad-iraq.htm) Universities, said. "But sometimes she does not do a serious thing or he does not want to let others know, when it is not good for the family. In this case, hitting is a better option."

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/10/18/uae-high-court-beat-wife-just-dont-bruise/?test=latestnews

[Agnapostate]

what sane religion/culture/society thinks this is logical?

Within the home? Every one of the United States, with school-administered spankings permitted in the red-colored states:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Corporal_punishment_in_the_United_States.svg

I was under the impression that domestic violence was frowned upon, but apparently not even in the most "liberal" states. http://www.corpun.com/usd00706.htm#19196


California legislation that attracted national attention for proposing to ban parental spanking died with a whimper Thursday in a watered-down form rejected by lawmakers.

Assembly Bill 755 was shelved by the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Mountain View, had stripped the spanking prohibition from the bill in February because it had attracted massive opposition and stood no chance of passage.

In its final version, rejected on Thursday, AB 755 proposed statutory language designed to make it easier to prosecute corporal punishment.

State law currently bans corporal punishment if it inflicts physical pain or mental suffering that is unjustifiable, which Lieber claims is a loophole hampering prosecution.

AB 755 would authorize juries to infer that the punishment was not justifiable if it involved various specific acts, ranging from vigorous shaking to striking with a belt to interfering with a child's breathing.

What sort of religion? The one that adheres to Deuteronomy 21:18-21, I suppose: "If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. They shall say to the elders, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.' Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid."