Saudi Doctor: "Husbands to blame for Saudi wives’ problems, Husbands are unfaithful and abusive"

Saudi Doctor: "Husbands to blame for Saudi wives’ problems, Husbands are unfaithful and abusive" (EM24/7).

Saudi husbands are to blame for nearly 95 per cent of their wives’ psychological problems by being unfaithful and abusive to them, according to a Saudi expert.

Dr Hanan Atallah, a well-known psychological guidance expert in the Gulf kingdom, said most married women who visit her clinics in Riyadh suffer from marital problems related to their husbands.

“The husband’s betrayal of his wife is the number one reason for her problems…the second reason is being abusive,” she said, quoted by ‘Sabq’ newspaper.

“The problem is that many of those women come to see me late…they tend to be patient and hope that their husbands will change.”

She said most of her visitors told her they fear divorce for the sake of their children and the fact that divorced women in “our society have no rights”.

'Moderate' Iran and 'Advanced Democracy' Turkey rank among the lowest in the world for gender equality.

'Moderate' Iran and 'Advanced Democracy' Turkey rank among the lowest in the world for gender equality. (NCRI).

Iran under the rule of the clerical regime ranked 137th in gender equality among 142 countries according to a recently published international survey.

The classification presented in the latest report by the World Economic Forum was published on October 28, 2014.

The Scandinavian countries are at the top of the list, while Iran is placed at the bottom of the list in 137th place, followed by Mali, Chad, Pakistan, and Yemen.

In the report of last year, Iran was placed 130th among the 136 countries assessed.

This classification is carried out through assessments made on several criteria: opportunities for women to participate in economic activities, women's access to education, women's access to health and medical care and women's access to political office.

Based on these four criteria, Iran was placed respectively in 139th, 104th, 89th and 135th place.

Turkey under Erdogan went down from 120 place in 2013 to 125 th place in 2014. 

Hmmm......Please keep Turkey out of Europe!Read the full story here.

Egyptian Salafi cleric: It’s ok to surrender wife to rapist if your own life is endangered.

Egyptian Salafi cleric: It’s ok to surrender wife to rapist if your own life is endangered.(AA).

An Egyptian Salafist preacher has told his supporters that surrendering wife to a rapist is ok, if doing otherwise puts a husband’s life in danger.

Yasser Burhami, the vice president of Salafist Call, the religious arm of the political ultra-conservative Nour party, has compared a rape with a robbery, saying that nobody should put their live in danger for money.

“In this case he [husband] is forced [to surrender her] and not obliged [to defend her],”Al Arabiya quoted the cleric as saying in his ruling.

Burhami’s remarks, published on Anasalafy.com have been widely condemned by other clerics and activists in Egypt.

“Every Muslim has to protect his honor even if that leads him to jail or death. The sacrifice to protect a wife's honour is a religious obligation,” Assaeed Mohammad Ali, an official at Cairo's religious endowments ministry told the al-Masry al-Youm daily.

Sheikh Ali Abu al-Hassan, the former head of al-Azhar’s fatwa committee, said that this fatwa was “baseless in the Islamic law” and that protecting a female honor is an obligation for her husbands and her relatives.

In a rebuttal, Salfist Call defended their cleric, saying that he only meant there was no “obligation of defending the [wife’s] honor.”

“But if the husband is certain that he is not capable of defending himself, that he will die and that the honor of his wife will be jeopardized, what can he do?” said Sheikh Ali Hatem, a Salafist Call party spokesman.

"He is allowed to choose between sacrificing the honor and protecting his life."

On Thursday, Egypt’s religious endowments ministry banned Burhami from preaching in any of Egypt's mosques, saying that he is not an al-Azhar graduate, Egypt's Islamic Research Academy.Hmmm.....Ok , no salafi knight on a white horse to save the damsel in distress 

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