He's right, this IS the greatest movie line ever!

And while we are at it... this is a great post about how to combat hatemail. Not that I get any, LOL, but I love to read blogs of people who do!

But then I stopped laughing. Here's an article published in the Arab News 'The Middle East's Leading English Language Daily defending the Islamic belief that it is ok to beat your wife, but hey, only if you use your hands.

Allow me to quote, "It is quite obvious here that Islam adopts a gradual approach starting with verbal admonishment of the wife, then seeks a period of refraining from conjugal relations and, finally, if the husband finds the situation very serious, he may strike his disobedient wife."

Can someone explain this to me?

I've heard the lines about how the Old Testament dictates how many wives someone can have and the punishments husbands were to dole out to children and wives alike... but unfortunately those lines are usually laid out by people who have not actually studied the bible. If they did they would realize the inherent difference between the Old and New Testaments. The NEW TESTAMENT is what God wants us to follow, the OLD TESTAMENT is ... well, it's kind of a like a story about what the world was like before Jesus entered it.

I'm hoping the whole Islamic beating your wife thing is the same.