Court in UAE says beating wife, child OK if no marks are left

[Liberal_in_LA]

(CNN) -- A court in the United Arab Emirates says a man is permitted under Islamic law to physically discipline his wife and children as long as he leaves no marks and has tried other methods of punishment, the country's top court ruled.

The ruling came in the case of a man who slapped his wife and slapped and kicked his 23-year-old daughter, the document said.

The daughter had bruises on her right hand and right knee and the wife had injuries to her lower lip and teeth, the ruling said.

The court ruled that a man has the right to punish his wife and children. That includes beating them, after he has tried other options, such as admonition and then abstaining from sleeping with his wife.

However, the court ruled that in this case the man exceeded his authority under sharia, or Islamic law. His wife was beaten too severely and his daughter was too old to be disciplined, the ruling said.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/10/19/uae.court.ruling/index.html?hpt=T2

[Demeter]

1. How About Beating the Husband and Father?

...sound of crickets...

[indepat]

2. Well ducky pooh! Now ain't that a quaint 21st-century special?

:grr: :mad:

[TheMadMonk]

5. Glass houses and all that. 30% of Americans want to bring that back.

Along with women and children as chattels. They've alreay managed to muddy the waters around perfectly legal medical procedures and gotten permission to refuse service using the sophistry that the govt. can't force them to help others commit what they believe to be a sin. And THAT is so very 21st C?

The UAE may well be backward and barbarian. However, at least its laws are moving in at least approximately the right bloody direction.

[Iris]

6. good point. n/t

[Cassandra]

3. Is cutting the man's head off ok...

if you cauterize the wound?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

4. That is their culture

:sarcasm:

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. *head thunks*