Quadrant : According to academic Samina Yasmeen, Islamic women endure greater rates of assault at the hands of their husbands because ... yes, you guessed it ... 'Islamophobia' drives them to such fits of impotent rage that many simply can't resist lashing out at the easiest targets.
Forget that Muslim men must be held accountable for domestic
violence against their female partners. Forget even what a notorious
Muslim cleric from Melbourne stated about males having a religious right
to hit and force sex upon their disobedient wives.[1]
Apparently, according to a Muslim academic based in Western Australia,
violence by Muslim men against their wives is primarily caused by a form
of “Islamophobia” consisting in a ‘disproportionate negativity towards
Muslims when compared to Australian attitudes towards other religions
including Buddhism and Christianity’.[2]
Samina Yasmeen is director of the Centre for Muslim States and Societies
and lectures in Political Science and International Relations in the
School of Social and Cultural Studies, the University of Western
Australia. This specialist in “political Islam” and “citizenship among
immigrant Muslim women”, apparently believes that male-perpetrated
domestic violence in the Australian Muslim community is not entirely the
perpetrators’ fault.
Instead, in an article entitled ‘Australian Muslim Women and Islamophobia’
this Muslim academic contends that such a violence is associated with
the ‘Islamophobic’ attitudes of the Australian people and resulting
‘negativity towards Islam and Muslims … [that] limits the capacity [of
Muslim men] to be gainfully employed’.[3] I do not wish to be accused of distorting her words, so it is better for me to quote her directly:
Australian Muslim women experience
both indirect and direct consequences of this creeping Islamophobia …
But the negativity towards Islam and Muslims limits their capacity to be
gainfully employed … [and] the inability to get a job or to secure a
job … causes depression among men with an adverse impact on women as
well … In extreme cases, it also increases the incidence of
male-perpetrated domestic violence. In less extreme cases, the sense of
powerlessness linked to employment difficulties prompts men to assume a
more authoritarian and restrictive approach vis-à-vis women in their
families who are put under pressure not to engage with the wider
community.[4]
Please correct me if I am mistaken to assume that this amounts to an
excuse of male-perpetrated domestic violence in Muslim families. Such a
negativity towards Islam in Australia, she says, provokes ‘depression
among [Muslim] men’ to such a level that it ‘increases the incidence of
male-perpetrated domestic violence’. HT : BCF
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I do not aim to please anyone. This is my blog, there is no blog like this. I am not mainstream. Read my disclaimer before posting comments and threatening me. Not to worry, I will not quiver in my boots. If you are not happy, no problem, just take a hike!!