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12 pages in length. Domestic violence is a gender-based abusive act prevalent in virtually all global communities; while the more developed societies have adopted a heightened awareness of the immoral nature of domestic violence and take significant steps to punish and deter it, other less developed societies continue to use it as a tool of control and coercion between men and their wives. Muslims have a particularly unsavory reputation for partaking in wife beating in order to manipulate the woman through physical and mental force via a subtext of social, political and economic undercurrents. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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steps to punish and deter it, other less developed societies continue to use it as a tool of control and coercion between men and their wives. Muslims have a
particularly unsavory reputation for partaking in wife beating in order to manipulate the woman through physical and mental force via a subtext of social, political and economic undercurrents. "Over
the past 25 years there have been two important historical factors operating, possibly with counter purposes: the Islamic movement, often tied to nationalism with the goal of social order and
preservation of religion, culture and a patriarchal familial system, and the international womens rights and human rights movements which is becoming more widespread throughout the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
In terms of the domestic violence movement, the issue of gender equality versus social stability is often a contested issue in many Muslim communities" (Morgaine, 2007, p. 109).
II. ISLAMS LONG HISTORY OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE It can be said that of all the religions of the world, Islam is one that
is recognized in part from its poor treatment of women. As a general rule, Westerners are said to misunderstand the completeness and universality of Islam, tending to believe it
is a "grim and stern faith, given to forcible conversions, appalling treatment of women and to hatred of modern ways" (Levins, 1997, p. 01B). Indeed, Islam may be one
of the most difficult religions of all to accept in the manner that it has been represented throughout the centuries, yet proponents whose lives revolve around the study of religion
claim that such narrow-minded views of the Islam faith fail to recognize all the many ideals that it possesses. Despite any redeeming qualities it may have in the broader
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