Muslims And Domestic Violence

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12 pages in length. Domestic violence is a gender-based abusive act prevalent in virtually all global communities; while the more developed societies have adopted a heightened awareness of the immoral nature of domestic violence and take significant steps to punish and deter it, other less developed societies continue to use it as a tool of control and coercion between men and their wives. Muslims have a particularly unsavory reputation for partaking in wife beating in order to manipulate the woman through physical and mental force via a subtext of social, political and economic undercurrents. Bibliography lists 9 sources.