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Saudi cleric on TV says domestic violence is always the woman's fault

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While preaching on Saudi TV, Imam used the following verse from the Koran to justify domestic violence:
QURAN 4:34 - "Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because God has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. Then if they obey you, take no further action against them. Surely God is high, supreme."
This extreme rhetoric has no place in the twenty-first century. Women are not property.