A Spanish court has at least identified the problem, but the judge’s solution is hopelessly naïve: An Islamic guide on how to beat your wife. (Hat tip: Ethel.)

MADRID — An imam who wrote a book on how to beat your wife without leaving marks on her body has been ordered by a judge in Spain to study the country’s constitution.

The judge told Mohamed Kamal Mustafa, imam of a mosque in the southern resort of Fuengirola, to spend six months studying three articles of the constitution and the universal declaration of human rights.