This is an outrageous news about this...

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Registered: 03-25-2003
This is an outrageous news about this...
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Thu, 09-23-2004 - 10:50am
woman. This is an outrageous news, How women can put up with this????

I read the following news in a small article at a newspaper:

“An Iranian woman wants her husband to hit her just once a week. TEHERAN (Reuters).

An iranian woman whose husband hits her everyday, asked the court to tell her husband to hit her only once a week, a iranian newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Maryam, a middle age woman, said she did not want to divorce her husband because she loves him, “just tell him that hit me once a week, beating is part of his nature and it cannot be stopped”, said Maryam to the court.

The Teheran Court, found the man guilty and prohibitted him to beat his wife, said the newspaper. “ If I dont beat her, she wont be afraid enough to obbey me”, he said.

I could not believe what I read. How things like these are allowed??? That man should be in jail forever so he can live the rest of his pathetic life inside a cell and guards should throw away the key.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 09-23-2004 - 11:51am
Cultural differences...As outrageous as this is to you and and me it has been a way of life in the ME for thousands of years... It will only change if the culture wants it to change...I do not feel that we should get heavily involved in cultural difference...JMO