Domestic Violence- An Analysis
Domestic Violence An Analysis and Islamic Viewpoint I t’s been twenty years, but I can never forget those black eyes and bruised arms. Our former housemaid, an ageing lady draped in a tattering nine-yard sari still wore the mangalsutra around her neck and the vermillion on her forehead that she believed would protect her drunkard abusive husband from harm. How ironic… how ironic indeed! I had grown up seeing her in that pitiable state and had become somehow habituated to the apathy; but what made the ordeal even more painful was the realization that this was not her case alone. There were thousands of women out there whom she only represented- women who were battered to pulp, humiliated and made to work in people’s houses to support the family while their male counterparts would order another round of country liquor in a shabby gambling shed. Beaten for money, beaten for sex- the poor souls have nowhere to go, no shoulder to cry upon and no kind heart to heark