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[quote]Dear All

Assalaamu Alaikum

[blue][size=6][b]I[/b][/size=6][/blue] am a new member and this is my first post.  I gone through this entire thread in one go and found it interesting, reading different views and interpretations and a host of questions raised by various members.  Answers to many questions could really be found in Mr. Tariq Hashmi's elaborative write up in the beginning itself, if you chose to re-read it again.

Locust has raised a couple of questions regarding wife-beating and slavery.  Though we object to both and our wisdom does not allow us to agree with such atrocities committed on women, we have to agree to the fact that both - wife beating as well as slavery - still exist and cannot be wiped out, for various practical reasons.  That is where the wisdom behind the Verses of Al-Qur'aan rests, as they are applicable to all, all the time from their revelation.  For 'slavery' I will write separately.  Here I give below an interesting survey conducted among non-Muslims and reported by Press Trust of India (PTI).  From this, you may come to know that 'wife-beating' is not a new phenomenon to be confined only with Islam, as has been assumed and accused by enemies of Islam.

There were several incidents of 'husband beating' too, if one wished to analyze with unbiased mind.  I have read about a wife who eaten away her husband !! I will try to get that news item to be posted, if someone wish to read.  See the report of PTI below :

Majority of women justify wife-beating!

PTI

COIMBATORE: Despite many groups raising a hue and cry over wife-beating from various quarters, a survey has indicated that in Tamil Nadu, 72 per cent of married women justified assault on their person by their husbands, for various reasons.

Analysis of National Family Welfare Survey-Two on violence against women and its association with reproductive health problems in the State indicated that the wife's negligence in the house and child care was the single biggest reason for wife beating.

The other reasons the analysis has thrown up were wife's visit outside home without husband's permission, disrespect for in-laws, lack of care in cooking food, besides not being faithful to the husband.

Majority of the husbands wanted their wives to be most responsible in house keeping and child care and therefore negligence of this responsibility led to wife-beating, the survey, analysed by A K Ravishankar and S Ramachandran of Bharathiar University, said.

The percentages approving of wife-beating were comparatively high in rural areas.

Saying that there was a clear cut negative association between standard of living index and the proportion justifying wife-beating, they said it was really surprising to observe that instead of strongly opposing it, women appeared to justify it.

The percentage in Tamil Nadu, of women being beaten from the age of 15 years was 40.4, higher when compared to National average of 21, which explained a deplorable situation of women in the State the analysts said.

The domestic violence rate was lesser than the percentage (72) who justified physical mistreatment, indicating no significant relationship between their attitude and experience of violence, they said.

The experience of domestic violence by women who have no living children indicated that childlessness could be the reason for it and the proportion experiencing domestic violence declined with improving standard of living condition of women, the analysts said.

The multidimensional analysis clearely revealed that the women in the low socio-economic level were more exposed to the probability of being beaten by their husbands, they said.

Therefore, improving the status of women in terms of certain variables like education, would help in reducing the domestic violence, analysts suggested.

Peace & Unbeaten Smiles

Zeenaeem[/quote]

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