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2007-11-28 Arabia

Poll: Middle East: 42% of women condone domestic violence

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Posted by Delphi 2007-11-28 16:31|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 "If he stopped beating me, I'd know he'd stopped caring." Besides, it's in the Koran.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-11-28 17:18|| 2007-11-28 17:18|| Front Page Top

#2 The study also found that 44.6% of the surveyed women have been subject to violence since childhood and 33.6% since adolescence. = 78.2%

And Qatar is supposedly one of the more enlightened Arab states. Now add in the Qatari women abused since marriage and you get ???

Posted by ed 2007-11-28 18:34|| 2007-11-28 18:34|| Front Page Top

#3 ed: i thik the 33.6 was a subset of the 44.6 ie that about 11% of the women reported that the beatings started as children, while for the other 33 percent it didnt start till adulthood.

my question is how prevalent is the case where a woman is so beaten she refused to report it even to this type of survey.

Posted by Abu do you love 2007-11-28 19:24|| 2007-11-28 19:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Stockholm Syndrome writ large. It would be puerile to write this off as a case of "If it doesn't hurt, it can't be love." Dangerously close to it but not the case. This is simply an example of the victim being recruited by their assailant in ratifying a pattern of abuse. As in, "I must have done something to deserve it."

This crap makes me doubt the MME (Muslim Middle East) is even worth saving.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-28 20:38|| 2007-11-28 20:38|| Front Page Top

#5 This crap makes me doubt the MME (Muslim Middle East) is even worth saving.

That is why we are in Iraq. To try to prove it CAN be different. As Iraq goes, so goes the ME.

So of course the dhimocrats want to scuttle it as fast as possible.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-11-28 22:23|| 2007-11-28 22:23|| Front Page Top

#6 That is why we are in Iraq. To try to prove it CAN be different. As Iraq goes, so goes the ME.

I agree, Darth, but am obliged to wonder if our genetically ingrained do-gooder syndrome will possibly permit us to let go if Iraq fails by no fault of our own. Should that happen, we need to abandon all further nation-building and begin a round of some serious nation-demolition in the MME.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-28 23:17|| 2007-11-28 23:17|| Front Page Top

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