Domestic Violence Among Muslims

[Guest]

I wonder if domestic violence is higher among Muslims then any other religious group

[dallysingh101]

I wonder if domestic violence is higher among Muslims then any other religious group

I think that stage has passed for them. Their society is settled. Men and women seem to know their respective roles. Thing with Muslim women is that a lot of them explicitly know that western feminism isn't a part of their culture/religion.

Plus with cousin marriage, it becomes less acceptable to batter your missus because now you have cross dimensional relationships in a family, and more people would intervene from within the family. I think there is less chance of some women coming into a family being seen as some outsider.

[Guest Jacfsing2]

I wonder if domestic violence is higher among Muslims then any other religious group

It could be a bigger issue if you include all those Islamic nations from the rich nations to the poor nations. Also we should know that their entire religion was created from a man who married a 9 year-old when he was in his 40's-50's, (not to mention he himself had more than the Islamic max of 4). So I'd say yes.

[Guest]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3374822/Muslim-engineer-kidnapped-female-colleague-raped-five-days-convince-convert-Islam.html

[SeekerKaur]

There is lot of domestic violence among Muslims! LOL if someone says that stage has passed for them or they know role of men and women.

Every day there are such cases in India, Pakistan and other South Asian countries.

Maybe you guys live abroad which is why you assume there is no problem, or is there fascination with Islam's backward, tribal culture in the name of "culture and traditional roles" here?

Feminism has nothing to do with domestic violence. Domestic violence has always existed. It existed even before men and women ventured out of so called traditional roles!

[dallysingh101]

There is lot of domestic violence among Muslims! LOL if someone says that stage has passed for them or they know role of men and women.

Every day there are such cases in India, Pakistan and other South Asian countries.

Maybe you guys live abroad which is why you assume there is no problem, or is there fascination with Islam's backward, tribal culture in the name of "culture and traditional roles" here?

Feminism has nothing to do with domestic violence. Domestic violence has always existed. It existed even before men and women ventured out of so called traditional roles!

Thing is, you see our own pendus b1tch-slapping their wives too. Ok, not as much as in my parent generation but are we saying that this doesn't happen in our society, especially the more backwards parts?

[Guest Jacfsing2]

Thing is, you see our own pendus b1tch-slapping their wives too. Ok, not as much as in my parent generation but are we saying that this doesn't happen in our society, especially the more backwards parts?

I'm sure if you compare almost 30 million Sikhs to 1.5 billion Muslims the Muslims would obviously have more domestic violence, if you compared the most devout Sikhs to most devout Muslims there would still be more domestic violence amongst the Muslims, because of their religion explicitly supporting such a thing. (If you compared the least religious Sikhs to the least religious Muslims however, the results would then show that Sikhs have slightly more, only slightly more than non-religious Muslims).

[SeekerKaur]

Thing is, you see our own pendus b1tch-slapping their wives too. Ok, not as much as in my parent generation but are we saying that this doesn't happen in our society, especially the more backwards parts?

I don't disagree with problems our community has. Both men and women are responsible for it. These days even kids and teens have been wreaking havoc.

I just countered your comment on Muslims. Your post seems to suggest they have passed that stage or their community doesn't have this issue. This is untrue. They have domestic violence too.

I am not saying we don't have problems. I am saying they have it too.

[MisterrSingh]

I'm sure if you compare almost 30 million Sikhs to 1.5 billion Muslims the Muslims would obviously have more domestic violence, if you compared the most devout Sikhs to most devout Muslims there would still be more domestic violence amongst the Muslims, because of their religion explicitly supporting such a thing. (If you compared the least religious Sikhs to the least religious Muslims however, the results would then show that Sikhs have slightly more, only slightly more than non-religious Muslims).

You should publish your findings in a journal.

[dallysingh101]

I don't disagree with problems our community has. Both men and women are responsible for it. These days even kids and teens have been wreaking havoc.

I just countered your comment on Muslims. Your post seems to suggest they have passed that stage or their community doesn't have this issue. This is untrue. They have domestic violence too.

I am not saying we don't have problems. I am saying they have it too.

I tell you one big difference between the communities - drink.

Back in the days when some 'uncle' would go off on his missus (and it wasn't uncommon), it was usually after a few drinks. So I'd say we have more alcohol related cases of domestic abuse than them.