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

Well... considering that the Holy Book tells men that they can beat their wifes, it IS quite a progress that they decided that a woman should have the same right. It might take another couple hundred years before they say that maybe "a husband should never hit his wife and vice versa"...

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!

mmmmm interesting ,

 my view is that i of course i would  say that anyone no matter male/ female people should have the right to defend themselves if they are abused either physically or mentally

But i see a difference between this and the fact that if someone abuses you then you have the right to do it back..Where does this get you ?  if i get hit with a belt and i hit him/her with a belt then i am as bad as him and also now we are both in pain.

Perhaps we should look to educate those that feel they need to intimidate male/female partners, and assist those that are abused to feel empowered to stand up against it through other means..

I don´t think this a matter of who is better.  It´s a matter of defending yourself if you are physcially attacked.  If a man starts beating me....I´m certainly not going to try to rationalize with him...my instinct would be to either run like hell or grab the first thing I could use to ward him off.  If this means grabbing a bat and hitting him...to save my life I would.  It´s called self defense.  I don´t believe in perpetuating the situation, but I´m also not going to accept being attacked either.  So I´m not sure what other means you are referring to.......

I don´t think this a matter of who is better.  It´s a matter of defending yourself if you are physcially attacked.  If a man starts beating me....I´m certainly not going to try to rationalize with him...my instinct would be to either run like hell or grab the first thing I could use to ward him off.  If this means grabbing a bat and hitting him...to save my life I would.  It´s called self defense.  I don´t believe in perpetuating the situation, but I´m also not going to accept being attacked either.  So I´m not sure what other means you are referring to.......

 hence the reason i wrote that i think anybody who is being attacked has the right to defend themselves

It is an international NGO that cooperates with the united nations so supposedly the information should be reliable!