Look out boys, this new fatwa is a mean bitch!
So one imam says that women are allowed to respond with the same violence used against them and another imam says yes, not only that, they should return the violence with interest.
I guess as a woman I should be grateful and applaud these statements, but I would rather hear these pious men preach nonviolence as much as possible.
Over the last few days, Saudi Sheikh Abdel Mohsen al-Abyakan stressed the fact that a wife should resort to "the same kind of violence" as her husband used against her, whether it be with a leather strap or a wire cable, the paper said.
Prominent Turkish Muslim preacher and writer Fethullah Gulen went one step further and ruled that a woman should return the violence with interest.
"She should give back two blows for each one received," the paper quoted him as saying on Monday. Rights groups quoted by Amnesty International say that 35% of Egyptian women killed each year die as a result of domestic violence.
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