The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)

wit h the wome n who com pla ine d, not wit hthe ir husb ands who bea t them. At
anothe r point he added: 'A man will not beasked asto why hebeat hiswife.'

Another hadith recounts that on one occasion a woman came toMuhamma d

lookin g for justic e,—Aishasaid that the lady (came), wearing a gree n veil (and

comp lain ed to her (`Aish a) of her husb and andshowed hera green spot on her skin

caused by beating).It was the habitof ladies to support each other, so when Allah's

Messenger came, 'Aishasai d, 'I have not see n any woma n suf fer ing as much as the

bel ievi ngwomen. Look! Her skin is greener than her clothes]" ""

"I have not seen any woman sufferingasmuch as the believing

women"? Aisha doesn't seem to have had any illusions that, in Nawal El-

Saadawi's words, 'our Islamic religion has given womenmorerightsthan

any otherreligion has." But Muhammad is unmoved by Aisha's alarm at

the woman's bruises:When her husband appears, Muhammad does not
repr ove him for beati ng his
wife—in fact. he doesn't mention itat
all. An d wh y wo ul d he , si nc e
Al la h had already revealed to him
that a man should treat his disobedient
wife this way?

Muhammad even struck Aisha

her sel f. One nig ht, thi nki ng she

was asleep, he went out. Aisha sur-

rep tit iou sly fol low ed him. Whe nhe

foun d out what she had done ,he hit

her: "He struck me on the chest which

caused me pain, and then said: Did

you think that Allah a n d H i s

A p o s t l e w o ul d d e a l unjustly with

you?"

Just Like Today:

Wife-beating

ThePakistan Institute of Medical

Sciences

percentof Pakistani wives havebeen

struck, beaten, or abusedsexually—

foroffenses on the order of cooking

anunsatisfactory meal. Others were

punished for failing togive birthto

a male child.

has determined that over 90