PA N to men: When beating your wife, "carefully read the Quranic" guidelines
Bulletin
April 6, 2017
What might be considered a bad April Fool's Day joke in other parts of the world, was taught in earnest on official Palestinian Authority TV on April 1. A female PA TV reporter instructed those of PA TV's viewers "who use beatings and violence to solve their marital problems" to "carefully read" and "obey" the Quran's "religious rules for beatings".
Although the reporter did remind viewers that "there are solutions before giving beatings," she didn't categorically reject violence against women. That this green light for violence was given in earnest, and did not constitute an April Fool's Day's prank, is clear from other similar instructions disseminated by religious authorities on PA TV that Palestinian Media Watch has exposed.
A mufti explained on PA TV how men should hit their wives, when the previous steps of "warning them" and "separating from them in bed" have not worked:
"Not hitting that will bring the police, and break her hand and cause bleeding, or hitting that makes the face ugly." [Official PA TV, Feb. 8, 2016]
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