Viewpoint: History dispels the lies about Islam

[HeiGou]

MODERATOR'S COMMENT: PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE ANTI-ISLAMIC ARTICLES. YOU ARE FREE TO RAISE QUESTIONS CONCERNING ISLAMIC TEXTS BUT SIMPLY COPYING ANTI-ISLAMIC MATERIAL IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. IF YOU HAVE A HADITH ON WOMEN YOU WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS, PLEASE TO DO SO IN THIS THREAD:
http://www.islamicboard.com/basics-islam/15909-hadith-women.html

Sorry about that. But it was not an anti-Islamic article. Nor was it from an anti-Islamic site. And it genuinely was from a Muslim man. Or he says he is.

And so of course the hadith were not mine.

As I said, there is clearly a lot of diversity in the Muslim world.

 

[Ansar Al-'Adl]

Sorry about that. But it was not an anti-Islamic article. Nor was it from an anti-Islamic site. And it genuinely was from a Muslim man. Or he says he is.

It is the content of the article that matters, not the religion the author claims to represent. The article you posted clearly attacked Islamic teachings.

As I said, there is clearly a lot of diversity in the Muslim world.

Anyone can claim to be a Muslim and write this material, so it doesn't prove anything.

There is domestic violence in the kafir world, but not as much as in the Muslim world.

This is an erroneous statement for two reasons:
1. Domestic violence is one of the least reported crimes so it is impossible to make a true comparison.
2. All the data that we do have points out that the problem of domestic violence is universal:

Across the Globe
Industrialized Countries
Canada
• 29% of women reported being physically assaulted by a current or former partner since the age of 16.
Japan
• 59% of 796 women surveyed in 1993 reported being physically abused by their partner.
New Zealand
• 20% of 314 women surveyed reported being hit or physically abused by a male partner.
Switzerland
• 20% of 1,500 women reported being physically assaulted according to a 1997 survey.
United Kingdom
• 25% of women had been punched or slapped by a partner or ex-partner in their lifetime.
Asia and the Pacific
Cambodia
• 16% of women reported being physically abused by a spouse; 8% report being injured.
India
• Up to 45% of married men acknowledged physically abusing their wives, according to a 1996 survey of
6,902 men in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Korea
• 38% of wives reported being physically abused by their spouse, based on a survey of a random sample
of women.
Thailand
• 20% of husbands acknowledged physically abusing their wives at least once in their marriage.
Middle East
Egypt
• 35% of women reported being beaten by their husband at some point in their marriage.
Israel
• 32% of women reported at least one episode of physical abuse by their partner and 30% report sexual
coercion by their husbands in the previous year, according to a 1997 survey of 1,826 Arab women.
Africa
Kenya
• 42% of 612 women surveyed in one district reported having been beaten by a partner; of those 58%
reported that they were beaten often or sometimes.
Uganda
• 41% of women reported being beaten or physically harmed by a partner; 41% of men reported beating
their partner.
Zimbabwe
• 32% of 966 women in one province reported physical abuse by a family or household member since the
age of 16, according to a 1996 survey.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Chile
• 26% of women reported at least one episode of violence by a partner, 11% reported at least one episode
of severe violence and 15% of women reported at least one episode of less severe violence.
Colombia
• 19% of 6,097 women surveyed have been physically assaulted by their partner in their lifetime.
Mexico
• 30% of 650 women surveyed in Guadalajara reported at least one episode of physical violence by a
partner; 13% reported physical violence within the previous year, according to a 1997 report.
Nicaragua
• 52% of women in León reported being physically abused by a partner at least once; 27% reported
physical abuse in the previous year, according to a 1996 report.
Central and Eastern Europe/CIS/Baltic States
Estonia
• 29% of women aged 18-24 fear domestic violence, and the share rises with age, affecting 52% of
women 65 or older, according to a 1994 survey of 2,315 women.
Poland
• 60% of divorced women surveyed in 1993 by the Centre for the Examination of Public Opinion
reported having been hit at least once by their ex-husbands; an additional 25% reported repeated
violence.
Tajikistan
• 23% of 550 women aged 18-40 reported physical abuse, according to a survey.

http://www.vitalvoices.org/files/docs/DV fact sheet.Problem.10.05.pdf

One of the highest rates of domestic violence is from Uttar Pradesh in northern India, region which is 81.7% hindu where most common factor behind domestic violence has been connected with the dowry given by the wife's family to the husbands (a hindu marital practice). Evidently, this quite far from Islam where the groom gives the dowry to the bride.

According to the World Report on Violence and Health from the WHO, major factors in domestic violence are alcohol consumption, poverty, poor academic achievement and living in war-torn lands. Religion is not the issue.​

Peace.