Over at CNN today we learn that a Saudi judge has ruled that it makes perfectly good sense, when wives spend more than they ought to on the accoutrements of their oppression, for their husbands to slap them around a bit. We read:
Arab News, a Saudi English-language daily newspaper based in Riyadh, reported that Judge Hamad Al-Razine said that “if a person gives SR 1,200 [$320] to his wife and she spends 900 riyals [$240] to purchase an abaya [the black cover that women in Saudi Arabia must wear] from a brand shop and if her husband slaps her on the face as a reaction to her action, she deserves that punishment.”
This is all God’s will, of course; it’s really quite simple, and laid out very clearly in the Koran. If you still have any questions, perhaps this explanatory video will help.
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Just read your comment and I agree with your thoughts on the subject! Thanks for your thorough straight talk….
i read another story that says Christian men marry 13 and 14 year old somewhere in the US and that they can marry up to twenty and thirty women at the same time. Have you heard of that?
Malcom,
Twenty or thirty wives? No, I hadn’t heard of that, but I suppose anything is possible. That’s a lot of birthdays and anniversaries to keep track of, and would make for a positively nightmarish Valentine’s Day, but chacun Á son goÁ»t, I suppose.
Do you really spell your name without the second ‘L’? I can’t say I approve.
I do spell it that way and it is too bad u don\’t approve, i think i am going to lose over it. As for the wives, are u tellin\’ me you don\’t know about the Mormons and the Christian radical cults in the US or do you find it sexier and more accepting to talk about Muslims instead..oh well i guess it is the trend nowadays..like havin\’ foam with ur bold starbuck..
Malcom,
Forgive my flippant response. I had indeed heard of the Mormons, and you are welcome to spell your name however you like. I certainly wouldn’t want you to “lose over it.”
Malcolm:
I was on the beach, no connection.
That is fine about the name thing, i get it every now and then. Also, your last.name seems to be a little off the original Hebrew version [Polak] , and not Pollack like you are spelling it. Your ancestor old Polak from Budapest may not approve… :-)
Nope, different Pollack; I’m not Jewish. My family is Scottish, Cornish, and Welsh, and actually it was originally “Pollock”: when my folks immigrated from the UK to the US in 1954 (by way of Canada) the paperwork got screwed up, and it was too difficult to undo it. “Pollock” is a Celtic name — originally “Pollag”, and related to “Polk”.
Actually the “Polak”/”Pollack” etc. used by a lot of Eastern European Jews was taken when they immigrated, and just means that they were of Polish extraction (“Polak” is Polish for “Polish”).