28 January 2010

German Mosques Raided Over Wife-Beating Manual

In a nationwide raid, police impounded copies of a banned book which called for violence against women. Beating of women is justified as "discipline,” so long as no bones are broken and no bruises left on the body.

.... "Women under the Protection of Islam” is the German translation of a book published in Saudi Arabia. Descriptions in the chapter "Beating the Woman” have been declared by the Federal Department for Media Likely to Endanger Young People as both discrimination and incitement to violence. [Gates of Vienna and EuropeNews] Read more [via National Secular Society]