A Muslim imam who had been jailed and fined for having advocated an âIslamicâ way of wife-beating, and then released, has had another brush with the law and been disciplined. According to a report carried by the Washington Times on Thursday, quoting a London newspaper, the imam from Spain wrote a book on how to beat oneâs wife without leaving marks on her body. He has now been ordered by a judge to study the Spanish constitution, articles 10, 14 and 15. The first two address âthe dignity of a person and inviolable rightsâ, stating that âall Spaniards are equal before the lawâ, while the third states that âthe moral and physical integrity of a person in no case can be submitted to torture nor inhuman or degrading punishments or treatmentâ.
The judge ordered Mohamed Kamal Mustafa, imam of a mosque in the southern resort of Fuengirola, to spend six months studying three articles of the constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Mustafa was sentenced to 15 months in jail and fined about $2,600 last year after being found guilty of inciting violence against women. A judge released him after 22 days in jail on the condition that he would undertake a re-education course. |