A Michigan-based mosque leader has been filmed informing students about the purpose of ‘wife beating.
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The short video was uploaded on May 27 and shows Shiite Imam Bassem al-Sheraa speaking to students at the Az-Zahraa Islamic Center in Detroit.
The leader declares that the Quran references a type of beating that doesn’t leave a red mark and doesn’t cause pain.
“[The Prophet] said that the beating is meant to remind her that she has misbehaved in cases when words [of admonishment] do not make her change her ways,” he said.
He then explained how the ‘wife beating’ should be the same to that one does when disciplining children.
“It is just like when your child reaches to touch the electrical socket or a fire… What do you do? You go like that!” he expressed.
“It is just like when your child picks up something dangerous and is about to eat it…You hit his hand like that as a reminder. This is a reminder and a means of clarification. This is what the ‘beating’ means.”
In January, MEMRI criticized the mosque leader for making anti-Semitic remarks after another video of one of his teachings surfaced.
The MEMRI said: “He accused the Jews of employing tricks and fraud in matters of religion and morality, and of amassing gold and spreading usury.”
Al-Sheera also claimed that Jewish women have managed brothels and that the “the Jews allow their faith to be passed down maternally so that their women could increase the Jewish population through prostitution.”
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