{UAH} Men can beat wives 'lightly' says Pakistan's Islamic Council: ATTENTION AFUWA KASULE

Afuwa Kasule,

YOU claim that I am anti-muslim. This is factually incorrect. I am a
humanist and human rights advocate and have spent the last 30 years of
my life fighting for the down-trodden and oppressed people all around
the world.

I am PRO-MUSLIM BUT ANTI-ISLAM,

THERE IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO POSITIONS.

Secondly your claim that Islam protects women is made very hollow by
the statement below issued by the Islamic Council of Ideology in
Pakistan, which authorises the beating of women, using the Koran to
justify its position. It is CII chairman Muhammad Kahn Sherani who is
calling for a barbaric treatment of women, and not Bobby Alcantara or
Dr Paul Mugerwa.



Bobby


Men can beat wives 'lightly' says Pakistan's Islamic Council of
Islamic Ideology (Adam Boult
29 May 2016 • 3:14pm

A draft proposal by Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology has
recommended that husbands should be able to beat their wives, as long
as they do it "lightly".

CII chairman Muhammad Kahn Sherani told the Express-Tribune newspaper:
"If you want her to mend her ways, you should first advise her … If
she refuses, stop talking to her … stop sharing a bed with her, and if
things do not change, get a bit strict."

A husband should be allowed to lightly beat his wife if she defies his commands
Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology
A "bit strict," he clarified, would include "(hitting) her with light
things like handkerchief, a hat or a turban, but do not hit her on the
face or private parts."

The council's draft proposal has met with a furious response in
Pakistan, including calls for the CII to be disbanded. The Human
Rights Commission of Pakistan said in a statement: "As much as the
HRCP wanted not to dignify with any comment the ridiculous CII
recommendations regarding 'light beating' of women, the commission
thinks it is imperative that every right-respecting person must
condemn such counsel unreservedly. The irony of calling the measures
women protection should not be lost on anyone."

The Council of Islamic Ideology advises Pakistan's government and
lawmakers on Islamic issues. Its proposals are recommendations, and
not legally enforced.

The council drafted the controversial proposal in response to The
Women's Protection Act, enacted in the province of Punjab in February,
which is intended to improve legal protection to women from domestic,
psychological and sexual violence.

The CII criticised the Women's Protection Act as being "un-Islamic".
Its alternative draft proposal, while suggesting some women's rights
be enshrined in law, also says: "A husband should be allowed to
lightly beat his wife if she defies his commands and refuses to dress
up as per his desires; turns down demand for intercourse without any
religious excuse; or does not take bath after intercourse or menstrual
periods."

The proposal also suggests interacting with strangers not wearing a
hijab and speaking too loudly among other potential activities that
might incur a light beating, the Express Tribune reports.

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