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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

The Slander of Male Superiority and the

Nonsense about Beating Women

Some people seek to produce evidence from the Qur'an about

supposed male superiority over women, their beating of
women, and cite the following verses in that respect:

Men have charge of women because God

has made the one excel the other and be-
cause they spend their wealth on them. Right-

acting women are obedient [to God], guard-
ing the unseen as God has guarded. If there

are women whose disobedience you fear, you

may admonish them, refuse to sleep with
them, and then beat them. But if they obey

you, do not look for a way to punish them.

God is All-High, Most Great. If you fear a
breach between a couple, send an arbiter

from his people and an arbiter from her peo-

ple. If the couple desire to put things right,
God will bring about a reconciliation between

them. God is All-Knowing, All-Aware.
(Qur'an, 4:34-35)

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