Tulsa, OK – Oklahoma Lawmaker Asks Muslims: ‘Do You Beat Your Wife?’

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    Tulsa, OK – An Oklahoma lawmaker who once likened Islam to cancer required Muslims to answer several written questions — including, “Do you beat your wife?” — before agreeing to meet with them.

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    Republican state Rep. John Bennett’s office distributed the questionnaire on Thursday as the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations organized its annual Muslim Day at the Capitol. The lawmaker’s office gave the list of questions to three Islamic school students who came to his office and asked to speak with him.

    “(The prophet) Mohammed was a killer of pagans, Christians and Jews that did not agree with him,” read one of 18 questions on the form. “Do you agree with his example?”

    The questions asked Muslims whether they would denounce terror groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah and whether they believed former Muslims should be punished for leaving Islam. One question asked Muslims if they agreed that Islamic law, known as Sharia, should rule over non-Muslims.

    The questionnaire drew a swift rebuke from civil rights groups and Oklahoma’s CAIR chapter, which represents about 40,000 Oklahoma residents who are Muslims.

    “Nobody should be vetted with stupid, Islamophobic, hateful, bigoted questions before they can meet with their representative,” said Adam Soltani, the executive director of CAIR-Oklahoma.

    Bennett did not return a message seeking comment on the questionnaire Saturday.

    The lawmaker has previously referred to Islam as “a cancer in our nation that needs to be cut out.” At an interim study Bennett convened in October to study the religion, he suggested that CAIR and a local imam were terrorists.

    Recently, Bennett came under fire when he posted a news story on Facebook critical of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and added the comment, “2 words … firing squad.”

    “It’s frustrating that Representative Bennett keeps pressing the issue in the way he does,” said Anna Facci, the government affairs director for CAIR-OK. “It certainly is frustrating but it’s not surprising.”


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    7 years ago

    Sounds like a fair question to me. We all have heard first hand testimony about muslims beating women. Listen to yad lachim interviews with jewish Israeli girls who married muslim men and were beaten and tortured.

    Aron1
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    Aron1
    7 years ago

    As long as he’s targeting Muslims and not us Jews, it’s all good.
    Right?

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    7 years ago

    What a remarkable young man.

    7 years ago

    #2
    Maybe this shows just a small taste of what Jews in the government services (both those serving and those attempting to join) have been put through regarding such things as their connection to Israel, Zionism and the like. Recently, how about the treatment, the way he was spoken about, that the proposed ambassador to Israel recently received. And that does not scratch the surface of the way Jews have been treated (even under Obama).

    7 years ago

    To #1 - You don’t think that the within the Hareidi community, there aren’t instances of domestic abuse? Granted, it doesn’t happen to a large degree, but it does happen, and should not be swept under the rug. There are shelters in EY for women, who have been physically battered by their Hareidi husbands; the same holds true in the USA. Before we criticize others, we should clean our own house first.

    SandmanNY
    SandmanNY
    7 years ago

    Why do culturally ignorant Americans continue to recreate Islam in their own image? Read the Quran and the Hadith and see for yourself what a misogynist and twisted religion this is.

    MayerAlter
    MayerAlter
    7 years ago

    This is all PC talk. In the good old days it was understood that mild chastisement is a good way to run a family. In years past when corporal punishment for children was both common place and acceptable were there so many problems with children going off the derech? Before the days of women’s lib when husbands ruled their wives and the wife understood that her husband was the boss, was divorce so prevalent? Instead of just writing me off as a crazy, just answer the two questions.

    MayerAlter
    MayerAlter
    7 years ago

    Well the chassidim don’t actually physically lock women up for driving but they just ensure that the family is put into herem, that the children are denied a Torah education and that they have to look to the street for shidduchim. No problem Yankel Shmiel, just stop your wife driving, oh and at the same time have her take off her nail varnish. But it is still OK for her to wear tight skirts with brazilians, bright gold zips straight up the back and a long sheitel. Welcome to the world!