Muslim students tried to meet with a lawmaker. They were first asked: ‘Do you beat your wife?'

Three Muslim students who tried to visit an Oklahoma lawmaker Thursday at the State Capitol in Oklahoma City were surprised when they were instead handed a questionnaire at his office. They would have to fill out the survey first, an office assistant told them, before they could make an appointment to see state Rep. John Bennett.

Among the nine questions on the form were lengthy paragraphs that “intentionally misinterpreted ideas [from the Koran] to try to slander Muslims,” said Anna Facci, an officer with the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

“The sunna of Mohammed says that Muslims must be punished for leaving Islam,” one question read. “Do you agree with this?” Another asked: “The Koran, the sunna of Mohammed and Sharia Law of all schools say that the husband can beat his wife. Do you beat your wife?”

Bennett, a Republican who was elected to the Oklahoma state legislature in 2010, has a history of expressing anti-Muslim views. He once called Muslims a “cancer in our nation that needs to be cut out” at a 2014 event and refused to apologize for those remarks later, according to the Tulsa World.

The students knew about Bennett’s history when they tried to meet with him, Facci told The Washington Post on Saturday.

The students were participating in CAIR’s third annual “Muslim Day” at the Oklahoma State Capitol on Thursday. The event, which drew more than 200 people, was aimed at building better relationships between the government and the Muslim community. The morning’s sessions had gone well, Facci said, and in the afternoon several groups split up to visit various legislators at the capitol.

Given the day’s purpose and the event’s location, Facci said, the students assigned to visit Bennett’s office were hopeful they would be welcomed.

“Because we were in the State Capitol and because this is a place that’s supposed to be open to everyone … I think they weren’t expected to be treated with that level of disrespect,” said Facci, who was in the capitol building when the students emerged with the questionnaire in hand. “One of the students, he just kind of seemed like he was in shock: ‘Can you believe this? Can he do this?’”

Bennett on Friday confirmed to the Tulsa World that his office distributed the questionnaires to the visiting Muslim students.

“CANT REFUTE FACTS!” Bennett told the newspaper in an email. “According [to] her testimony in the Hadith [a collection of Muslim sayings and traditions], Muhammad physically struck his favorite wife for leaving the house without his permission.”

Bennett continued: “According to the Qur’an, Hadith and Islamic law, a woman may indeed have physical harm done to her if the circumstances warrant, with one such allowance being in the case of disobedience. This certainly does not mean that all Muslim men beat their wives, only that Islam permits them to do so.”

Neither Bennett nor his legislative assistant could be reached for comment Saturday.

A copy of the survey the students received, provided by CAIR, showed that it was written by a group called ACT for America, a nonprofit organization that bills itself as “the NRA of national security.” The Southern Poverty Law Center lists ACT for America as an extremist group, “the largest grass-roots anti-Muslim group in America,” which reportedly has about 280,000 members in more than 1,000 chapters.

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This guy Bennett sounds like an ass, but on the other hand why should people be offended by questions asked of them? It's a dumb idea - as if people are going to admit to breaking the law "Yeah, sure I beat my wife, I hit her with a miswak every morning."

 

Yeah, just because Islam permits it doesn't mean all Muslims beat their wives.

 

Hmmmm...the Bible permits parents to put their children to death for disrespecting them. Maybe he should ask Christians if they do that. I wonder how many would be insulted by such a question.

 

Exactly.

 

It would have been more offensive if they had asked "do you beat your meat" lol.

Whoever came up with those questions needs to be bitchslapped ... is there a question "are you a terrorist or do you plan on becoming one anytime soon" ???

 

Not with my hand i take a belt, couse i did boxing and dont want to hurt her, but she simply asks for it sometimes, although i may hold back very long but not forever.

 

Sadly Wife beating oxygen thieves come from all continents

 

Sadly I have a childhood memory of my Dad coming home drunk and my mother and him arguing about it. I couldn't believe it when my Dad slapped her, to this day the vision is as vivid as the day it happened, my Mom put up her fists in a boxing stance, out came a fist right to his jawbone and down he went like a sack of potatoes. He was out cold, she just left him laying there. I never saw him raise a hand to her again.

 

Gee, why do we get that same reaction from the Twit-in-Chief and his minions when they get caught?

 

He was trying to find some common ground.

 

Yes, Islam allows a pair beating his wife, but not also understand some ... batting is very light and this will be the final stage, as mentioned in the Quran to punish women if the wife was cacophonous (rebel) and have it in three stages:

First, good advice.

II: sleeps with her in the same bed, but did not care.

Third: Light beatings which does not leave a mark.

This is a verse in the interpretation of the Koran from Nisa:

[ Men are the maintainers of women that God has preferred in bounty one of them over the other, and they have spent of their wealth. The good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah has guarded. Those from whom you fear rebellion, admonish them and abandon them in the bed and smack them (without harshness). Then, if they obey you, do not look for any way against them. High God, Great ]

I hope that it wanted to know Islam should have looked the right way is not seen for the wrong acts of some Muslims

the Muslims are human beings like others were at fault and correct them.

 

My wife is my penis and I beat her every chance I can get.

 

I think beating your wife should be unacceptable no matter what religion you belong to. A little light flogging and discipline training is all that's necessary.

 

Clarification:

wife-beating in the religion of Islam is in the very narrow limits in certain cases, such as the wife disobedient or rebellious is obedient to her husband and conjures problems always with her husband without clear justification, and be very light batting does not cause any pain does not leave a mark on the skin so as to indicate to object to the actions of the wife only rebel

 

I beat my wife regularly...

Monopoly, cluedo, scrabble...

She's shit at board games.

 

And this is in the religion of Islam is

(it is permissible and not a duty)

 

[QUOTE = "Emymoh88، وظيفة: 8246068 عضو: 1173371"] توضيح:

ضرب الزوجة في دين الإسلام هو في حدود ضيقة جدا في بعض الحالات، مثل الزوجة العاصية أو المتمردة هي مطيعة لزوجها وتستحضر مشاكل دائما مع زوجها دون مبرر واضح، والضرب تكون خفيفة جدا لا يسبب أي الألم لا يترك علامة على الجلد وذلك لبيان الاعتراض على تصرفات الزوجة المتمردة فقط [/ QUOTE]
[QUOTE = "Emymoh88، وظيفة: 8246068 عضو: 1173371"] توضيح:

ضرب الزوجة في دين الإسلام هو في حدود ضيقة جدا في بعض الحالات، مثل الزوجة العاصية أو المتمردة هي مطيعة لزوجها وتستحضر مشاكل دائما مع زوجها دون مبرر واضح، والضرب تكون خفيفة جدا لا يسبب أي الألم لا يترك علامة على الجلد وذلك لبيان الاعتراض على تصرفات الزوجة المتمردة فقط [/ QUOTE]
وفي اي مكان لازم تدافع عن دينك لما تلاقي في انطباع خاطئ عنه انت بقى مركز في الجنس بس فدي ثقافتك ومشكلتك مش مشكلتي

 

You're a woman and you're justifying this? lol You're either a guy pretending to be a woman or you've really been brainwashed.
I guess stoning your wife to death is okay under the right circumstances, right?
Just curious though. Does that rule also apply to ex-wives...?

 

It is according to the Bible as well.