Sunni Islam’s highest authority has approved a woman’s right to fight back if her husband uses violence against her. The declaration by Sheikh Abdel Hamid al-Atrash, who heads the Al-Azhar University committee for fatwas or religious rulings, comes after similar rulings by religious leaders in Saudi Arabia and Turkey,  Egypt’s Al-Masry al-Youm newspaper has reported. “A wife has the legitimate right to hit her husband in order to defend herself,” Atrash said. “Everyone has the right to defend themselves, whether they are a man or a woman … because all human beings are equal before God,” he said. Over the last few days, Saudi Sheikh Abdel Mohsen al-Abyakan stressed the fact that a wife should resort to “the same kind of violence” as her husband used against her, whether it be with a leather strap or a wire cable, the paper said.

 Source: http://www.missionandjustice.org/womens-right-to-beat-husbands-backed/

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A Turkish leader seemed to have said that women are allowed to hit twice as hard in cases of domestic violence!

This is all well and good.....but I was leaning toward NON-VIOLENCE

 Of course, but in case.....

you know.. I heard that in Kuwait, they have a problem of women hitting their husbands  too much!!! Isnt that soo funny?? Just imagine a man hiding and quivering from his wife under a coffee table!!!!LOOOOOOOOOOOL!!

I dont think it is very funny.  Any violence is disgusting.  In some ways it can be worse for men whose wives hit them as they are ashamed to admit it (it makes them sound weak) and also because convention dictates that they can´t defend themselves against a woman.

As to this law that women now have a "right" to defend themselves against attack....it is as mixed up and completely ridiculous as the rest of their laws...

Do you think that the below statement exaggerated or is it really the situation in Turkey?

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Domestic violence is a grave problem in turkey with as many as 90% of turkish women experience violence at the hands of their husbands and boyfriends.
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although the problem of domestic  violence is extensive in turkey there is no comprehensive legislation concerning domestic violence. "

(source: http://www.omct.org/pdf/VAW/Publications/2003/Eng_2003_09_Turkey.pdf 

 NO NO i didnt mean it seriously, none of it, it was a joke!

 Oh yeah, nearly all turkish women walking around with a purple eye the whole day ...

 I don´t think that domestic violence just means that these women are hit in the face.....there is grabbing, pushing, intimidation, mental bullying....it is all part of domestic violence.  I think that 90% might be a little exaggerated, but I don´t know if there is anyway to get an accurate number on this. 

First of all this is so sad....every human should have a right to defend their self.  At least their making a little progression...allowing women now to do this.  I´ll be interested to see if this will have any impact on abuse or will it create more...