On licking pus, and other conjugal duties

Montreal Imam Wael Al-Ghitawi on the duties that a wife owes her husband:

He cites a hadith according to which the Prophet Muhammed said that "if [a husband] has a boil oozing pus, anywhere from head to toe, the wife will not be doing him full justice even if she licks it clean."

This is no trivial matter..These are the words of the Prophet Muhammed....

Another of the husband's rights is not to be refused when he summons his wife to bed. If the husband wants her she must consent, in order to protect him from the temptations that lurk everywhere. The wife must not refuse her husband when he summons her to bed, as long as she is able, and does not suffer from any mental or physical condition preventing this, like menstruation or post-natal bleeding, in which case she may refrain from doing so. But even in such cases the husband may enjoy her, avoiding the vagina.

So there you go. Anal intercourse is sanctioned if other avenues are unavailable. Otherwise the husband, unable to control his sexual urges, will be tempted elsewhere. One orifice at least must always be ready for action. That's what marriage is all about.

Oh, and wives aren't allowed out of the house without the husband's permission. "That's one of his rights. Allah granted him this right." So there's nothing further to discuss.

Also, from the same imam - Jews are Khazars, with no historic right to Palestine. "Jerusalem is Arab and Islamic". 

Update: that second link is now making news in Canada - Montreal mosque facing calls for investigation after imam preaches on anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

Comments

[Bob-B]

Do these guys ever consider the possibility that the woman might be keener than the man? They should listen to the late great Victoria Wood:

http://www.cello.prestel.co.uk/BarryAndFreda.htm

[AlanS]

If the wife isn't doing the husband "full justice" even by licking his pus clean, what more is she supposed to do? Swallow it?

[Epidermoid]

What is so disappointing is that this is not extremism as Western apologists will claim, but Islam in its central doctrine of holding the words of the Prophet to valid for all time.

[Rich Rostrom]

Epidermold: Not necessarily. A lot of what these imams claim is in the Koran is not actually there. For instance, there is no passage in the Koran requiring women to cover their faces.

Middle Eastern cultures are intensely misogynistic. That attitude is reflected in the Koran, but the cultures take it much further.

In fact, culture trumps even the Koran. The practice of "honor killing" is not Koranic - prominent imams have condemned it as murder, and it is nominally illegal. But families do it anyway, with near-total impunity.

One might cite the authoritarianism of Islam as a cause - but Islam, unlike Christianity, has no formal religious hierarchies to enforce doctrine. (Except among the Shi'a.) There are ulemas and commissions of imams, but they are all ad hoc - arising from some local wave of religiosity or political backing.

There is no Islamic Inquisition in Pakistan - but random preachers incite lynch mobs regularly.

The disease is embedded in the cultures, not simply the scripture (bad as it is).