LAGOS, Nigeria(VOICE OF NAIJA)-The Khalifa of the Tijjaniya group in Nigeria and the 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, in a statement against Domestic Violence revealed that he will support and stand by his daughters if they return the favor of a slap to a violent husband.
The Emir made this revelation as a guest speaker at the National Dialogue Conference held to discuss issues from an Islamic standpoint on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and it’s prevention; themed, ‘Islamic Teachings and Community Collaboration for Ending Gender-Based Violence.’
According to Emir Sanusi, when any of his daughter marries, he gives her a brief report on domestic violence as an eye opener. He tells her that in in the last five (5) years, all the nine (9) Sharia Courts in Kano state handled domestic violence and wife battery cases that covered 45 percent of its total cases.
In his address, he said “You can take that verse and say that as a husband, I’ve been given this permission to beat my wife light. And nobody will deny that, nobody will say it is haram if you comply with all the rules,”
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“But if you live in a society in which those rules are never applied, nobody who is angry remembers to look for a chewing stick or a handkerchief.”
In reference to domestic violence, he added that, “They just slap these women and punch them and kick them and beat them,”
“I just wrote a doctorate thesis on family law, and I researched nine Shari’a courts in Kano. 41% of the cases over a five-year period had to do with maintenance. 26 per cent had to do with harm. And out of those, 45 per cent were cases of wife beating, or domestic violence. And when we go to the content analysis, not one case of wife beating was light beating,”
“It just does not make sense. Now I said it before, and I know I’ve been attacked for it, and I’ll continue saying it. When my daughters are getting married, I say to them, if your husband slaps you, and you come home and tell me my husband slapped me, without slapping him back first, I will slap you myself because I did not send my daughter to marry somebody so he can slap her,”
“If you do not like her, send her back to me. But don’t beat her,” he affirmed.
