This a much longer video than the transcript below, but I wanted to focus on one part of it. You can read the full transcript here or just watch the video.
This was originally broadcast in Saudi Arabia in 2002 and then replayed in April of this year. In the last 3rd of this video, the Saudi host objects to the criticism by us westerners of wife-beating in Islam. His defense is that it’s rare that a woman actually dies from a wife-beating. Whereas, in the US, women are killed all the time after being beaten by their husbands. So because their women ‘rarely die’ this justifies the beatings women receive and condemns the westerners. Just unreal.
Even more unreal is the idea that some wives suffer from a mental disorder known as masochism. In the case that a wife suffers from this disorder, the treatment is…beating her. Not kidding.
Just read below:
Today, the Westerners criticize us about wife-beating in Islam, but no [Muslim] woman has died as a result of her husband’s beating. And if it does ever happen in our societies, it is considered very rare, and all the newspapers talk about it. Meanwhile, according to the latest U.N. statistics, from 1999-2000, every 12 seconds, a wife is beaten by her husband in the U.S. in some cases, these beatings lead to the woman’s death. When the Westerners criticize us about our issues, we must be confident and talk about their own issues. Even though the Koran [permits wife-beating], we have no cases of death resulting from it, and if there have been any, it is rare. On the other hand, in the West, they do not have the Koran or the Sunna, yet every 12 seconds, a woman is beaten by her husband.
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We all know that some men suffer from a mental disorder known as sadism, and that some woman suffer from a mental disorder known as masochism. What is the cure for such disorders? Beatings. Such a woman must be dealt with harshly. One of the jurisprudents even said that it is possible that this verse was conveyed for those suffering from these diseases. If a man is married to a woman suffering from sadism [sic] – let him beat her. The beatings constitute treatment in her case. A psychiatrist friend of mine once told me that sometimes people come to him with marital problems, in which the woman suffers from that disease. He advises the husband to beat her in a certain way, and the problem is solved. The Koran deals with such problems. Brothers and sisters, there is no need for concern. Our religion is glorious, and the verses of the Koran impart absolute justice. They are not unjust toward either the woman or the man, but we must learn how to apply the rulings of Islam.
You can watch the full video here where they also discuss different size rods used in wife-beating: