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From: ken@images1.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Ken Braithwaite)
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Subject: Qu'ran and beating wives
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Date: 14 Aug 90 13:26:17 GMT
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In the Qu'ran it says:
	In wives in whom you fear disobdience... admonish them, and 
	beat them, and send them to beds apart.
(This may be Surah 81?)
To me this is sexist. Can anyone explain this as anything but
sexist?
-- Ken Braithwaite