(October 19, 2010 at 5:57 pm)Rayaan Wrote: Well, making the beating of wives permissible in Islam is not the same thing as supporting it. No one said that it's a good thing. It's better not to hit them at all.
The important thing to know is that the beating is allowed only for a good reason such as to discipline them.
This kind of backwards thinking is one of the main reasons why Islam is completely incompatible for modern civilisation.