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Islamic Counsel Says It Is OK To Lightly Beat Your Wife
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You know where the saying "rule of thumb" comes from?
It used to be legal for men to beat their wives with a stick as long as it was no wider than their thumb.
It used to be legal for men to beat their wives with a stick as long as it was no wider than their thumb.
The term predates your definition by hundreds of years. Not saying there isn't written evidence of your use of it, just not its origin.
BTW, it's 2016.
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Wrong.
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Actually that was never the case. There was one judge in 18th century England that ruled on that and was ROUNDLY criticized for it. It was never codified by statute in English common law. In any event beating your wife NOW is against the law in all modern non-Islamic nations.
Sometimes they just don't listen.
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There are no small number of Americans, many of whom are religious, who insist that it is morally correct to beat their children. Not just permissible, but immoral not to hit them.
So long as we continue to address violence as a gender/race/religious issue we will make not appreciable progress. Violence is a violence issue.
Indeed it is. And back to the OP's original point, it is not a race/religious/gender issue. There is a group of people condoning violence against women. And that is wrong. It wouldn't have mattered if it was the Boy Scout's decree, the Catholic Church's decree, the town of Spartanburg's decree, or the Lithuanian Government's decree. The decree is wrong.
It's really that simple.
He isn't making it racial, religious or other.