The British Imams Telling Men to Beat Their Wives for Refusing Sex

British imams have been exposed preaching that husbands have the right to beat their wives for refusing sex. In the Mail on Sunday, Abul Taher and Ian Gallagher have the story:

Sitting before his many followers, a preacher dressed in white urges the men to hit their wives if they refuse to be “called to bed for intimacy”.

Clasping his hands, he beseeches husbands never to tolerate disobedience, and to “discipline them physically… lightly hitting them to show them who is in charge”.

A scene from a film or television drama, some medieval fantasy set in a distant, untamed land perhaps?

Depressingly, we are in modern Britain and the cleric’s words are only too real. His name is Yasin Munye from the Hackney Islamic Community Centre, a religious charity in East London.

Referring to scriptures, and making clear what he believes are grounds for domestic violence, Munye cites “disobeying the husband when it comes to calling her to bed”.

Were an Anglican vicar to deliver such a sermon, one might expect police to drag him from the pulpit in handcuffs.

Certainly, officers have been only too quick to beat a path to the door of members of the public who’ve tweeted their opinions online, one example being the two detectives who paid a visit to grandmother Helen Jones last year – simply for criticising Labour politicians on Facebook.

But when Saudi Arabia-trained Munye’s diatribe surfaced in a video last week, and his mosque was reported to the Charity Commission, there was a conspicuous absence of public discussion, much less howls of protest. For its part, the Met said it was “assessing” a complaint against the Hackney mosque.

Yet, the Mail on Sunday has discovered that the Munye case is by no means isolated. Similarly ugly and misogynistic advice is dispensed up and down the country to Muslim husbands, often via video lectures.

Concerns have been raised about the creeping spectre of sharia law in modern Britain. Last month, a video emerged of men and women queuing separately in an Asian supermarket in Romford, Essex, and last October the Mail on Sunday revealed that a London mosque had organised a “family friendly” charity run from which women were banned.

Rakib Ehsan, an expert in social integration and author of Beyond Grievance: What The Left Gets Wrong About Ethnic Minorities, said: “Britain’s model of multiculturalism has let down women in these segregated communities. With light-touch policing, the state has turned a blind eye to ethnically insular areas of our cities that have regressive attitudes. So because the state has not engaged with these communities, imams there feel emboldened to preach violent misogyny and other practices that run counter to British laws and customs.” …

This newspaper’s investigation paints a depressing picture of Britain in 2026, as scores more imams proudly display their archaic prejudices in sermons posted online. One denounced women who “leave the house” wearing perfume as “fornicators”, while in another video, Abu Sa’ad Muhammad, who preaches at the same mosque as Munye, said the “unfortunate reality of this country” meant that wives had been turned against husbands, and that wives “know if you slap them once, they will call the police”.

Meanwhile, Mahamed AbdurRazaq, from the An-Noor Masjid and Community Centre in Birmingham, advises “admonishing” wives in the first instance for refusing sex. If this fails, he adds, “then he’s allowed to hit her, a hitting that does not bruise and that does not break bones”.

Worth reading in full.