The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, has disclosed he encourages his daughters to retaliate whenever their husbands hit them.
Disclosing that domestic violence and wife battery form 45
percent of cases in nine Shari’a courts of Kano in the past five years, Sanusi
said he usually tells his daughters this when they are getting married.
He made this known at the National Dialogue Conference on
Gender-Based Violence, GBV, prevention from an Islamic perspective themed:
‘Islamic Teachings and Community Collaboration for Ending Gender-Based
Violence.’
According to Sanusi: “You can take that verse and say that as a husband, I’ve been given this permission to beat my wife light. And nobody will deny that, nobody will say it is haram if you comply with all the rules. But if you live in a society in which those rules are never applied, nobody who is angry remembers to look for a chewing stick or a handkerchief.
“They just slap these women and punch them and kick them and
beat them. I just wrote a doctorate thesis on family law, and I researched nine
Shari’a courts in Kano. 41% of the cases over a five-year period had to do with
maintenance. 26 per cent had to do with harm. And out of those, 45 per cent
were cases of wife beating, or domestic violence. And when we go to the content
analysis, not one case of wife beating was light beating.
“It just does not make sense. Now I said it before, and I
know I’ve been attacked for it, and I’ll continue saying it. When my daughters
are getting married, I say to them, if your husband slaps you, and you come
home and tell me my husband slapped me, without slapping him back first, I will
slap you myself because I did not send my daughter to marry somebody so he can
slap her. If you do not like her, send her back to me. But don’t beat her.”
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