Muslim charity says ‘controlling husbands are just caring’
The Muslim Family Foundation (MFF) is alleged to use its social media accounts to promote the subordination of women, saying that a wife must seek her husband’s permission in every aspect of family life, and that his controlling behaviour is simply a sign of care.
In one of its videos on Instagram, MFF tells Muslim women they can respect their husbands by “always asking for his permission when you want to go out” and by “lowering your gaze” in front of men who are not members of the family.
Another MFF film, posted on YouTube, states that the husband’s “opinions should come before everyone else’s” and that he “must have the final say” in big family decisions.
The charity, based in Newham, east London, also offers “Islamic counselling, psychotherapy and coaching” with a “Muslim therapist” to help with “women’s issues, marriage, family issues and identity issues”.
Another video says women should dress modestly because those who “cover themselves in make-up” or are “someone undressed” acquire “the sin of everyone who looks at her”.
Alejandro Sanchez, of the National Secular Society (NSS), told The Telegraph: “The fact that this charity promotes dark ages misogyny is bad enough. That it presents itself as a counselling and psychotherapy service is even more troubling.
“Any woman seeking advice from the Muslim Family Foundation would be left with the impression that it is her religious obligation to subordinate herself to her husband. The public purse should not be subsidising this regressive ideology through the tax breaks granted by charitable status.”
Mr Sanchez added: “The idea that this charity is acting in the public benefit is farcical and makes a mockery of the Government’s counter-extremism efforts. The ‘advancement of religion’ as a charitable purpose is allowing misogyny to be spread with impunity. It must be urgently reviewed.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...st-caring/
The Muslim Family Foundation (MFF) is alleged to use its social media accounts to promote the subordination of women, saying that a wife must seek her husband’s permission in every aspect of family life, and that his controlling behaviour is simply a sign of care.
In one of its videos on Instagram, MFF tells Muslim women they can respect their husbands by “always asking for his permission when you want to go out” and by “lowering your gaze” in front of men who are not members of the family.
Another MFF film, posted on YouTube, states that the husband’s “opinions should come before everyone else’s” and that he “must have the final say” in big family decisions.
The charity, based in Newham, east London, also offers “Islamic counselling, psychotherapy and coaching” with a “Muslim therapist” to help with “women’s issues, marriage, family issues and identity issues”.
Another video says women should dress modestly because those who “cover themselves in make-up” or are “someone undressed” acquire “the sin of everyone who looks at her”.
Alejandro Sanchez, of the National Secular Society (NSS), told The Telegraph: “The fact that this charity promotes dark ages misogyny is bad enough. That it presents itself as a counselling and psychotherapy service is even more troubling.
“Any woman seeking advice from the Muslim Family Foundation would be left with the impression that it is her religious obligation to subordinate herself to her husband. The public purse should not be subsidising this regressive ideology through the tax breaks granted by charitable status.”
Mr Sanchez added: “The idea that this charity is acting in the public benefit is farcical and makes a mockery of the Government’s counter-extremism efforts. The ‘advancement of religion’ as a charitable purpose is allowing misogyny to be spread with impunity. It must be urgently reviewed.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...st-caring/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
