Cleric sentenced for book that instructs on how to beat your wife

[Loonman]

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1074053869496&p=1008596981749

"The blows should be concentrated on the hands and feet using a rod that is thin and light so that it does not leave scars or bruises on the body," Kamal wrote, according to the private news agency Europa Press.

The book enraged about 90 women's groups who in July 2000 filed a lawsuit in a Barcelona court to have the book withdrawn. They invoked a Spanish law that protects women from discrimination in the home and workplace.

[Bunny]

1. Verbal warnings followed by a period of sexual inactivity?

And then beat them? That's so damn sick it's almost funny. :eyes:

[abrupt]

4. sexual inactivity?

and this is suppose to be a punishment ? sounds like a perk to me.

[newyawker99]

6. Hi abrupt!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[abrupt]

7. thanks

for the welcome!

[afraid_of_the_dark]

2. Yeah, beat them so no one can tell you've beaten them

Don't want to leave any evidence.

What a sick person!

[Cleita]

3. Don't forget starving them.

In some cultures if your wife is disobedient, like if she is a lippy American, you lock her up in a room with her child. You give both the child and her a little bread each day. As the child starves, she gives the child her bread. In less than a week she will be obedient and not give you trouble anymore.

[bobbieinok]

5. this is about a Muslim cleric....the catholic church had something

similar in the Middle Ages.