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10,000 Muslim Men Against Domestic Violence

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)11/15/2010 4:02:05 am PST

re: #11 kreyagg

You’re treating Islam as monolithic concept, when it isn’t.

A religion isn’t defined by its text, but by its practice. If a community of Muslims holds it as abhorrent and anti-Islamic to beat their wives, then that is what it is to them. That is Islam as much as a guy who says beating your wife is great is Islam.

For some reason, you seem to think that religions are bound by their texts. Clearly, a brief review of human history will show that religions depart wildly from their texts.

So why do you think religions are bound by literal interpretations of their texts?

What you are arguing against is the strawman position that no Muslims believe that Islam sanctions wife-beating. Nobody has made that assertion, so your attempts to beat it down are rather futile.