Before Agreeing to Meet, Oklahoma Lawmaker Asks Muslims, “Do You Beat Your Wife?”

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This dope's constituents have to pass a religious test to see him.

Republican state Rep. John Bennett from Oklahoma is no stranger to uttering Islamophobic statements. But if any of his Muslim constituents want to meet with him they must first answer several written questions, including, “Do you beat your wife?” That's what a group of students discovered when they went to Bennett’s office last week and were handed the questionnaire.

The questions included:

  • The Koran, the sunna of Mohammed and Sharia Law of all schools say that the husband can beat his wife. Do you beat your wife?
  • I have heard that, according to accepted Islamic sources, Mohammed, at age of 49, married a 6-year-old girl, and that he had sex with her when he was 52 and she was only 9 years old. Is that really true?
  • Sharia law says that it must rule over the kafirs, the non-Muslims. Do you agree with this?
The students were in the state capitol as part of an annual Muslim Day organized by the Council on American-Islamic Relations that seeks to introduce members of the community to their representatives. CAIR was the first to publicize the questionnaire, butBennett confirmed it and justified his actions in an email to Tulsa World...

The executive director of CAIR-Oklahoma, Adam Soltani, who published a video on Facebook recounting the experience, said the questions were “stupid, Islamophobic, hateful, [and] bigoted.” The students never did get a chance to talk to Bennett, a former marine. “What's most inflammatory is the questions itself, the fact that Muslims have to pass a religious test in order to see a representative of our state, surely he does not do this to Christian constituents or Jewish constituents,” Soltani said.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...muslim_students_if_they_beat_their_wives.html
 
How can this be a religious test? If you can not differentiate a societal norm from a religious belief from their culture and law, how is this a specifically religious test? To me it is are you civilized or are you a barbarian test.
 
christiefan915 said:
This dope's constituents have to pass a religious test to see him.

Republican state Rep. John Bennett from Oklahoma is no stranger to uttering Islamophobic statements. But if any of his Muslim constituents want to meet with him they must first answer several written questions, including, “Do you beat your wife?” That's what a group of students discovered when they went to Bennett’s office last week and were handed the questionnaire.

The questions included:

  • The Koran, the sunna of Mohammed and Sharia Law of all schools say that the husband can beat his wife. Do you beat your wife?
  • I have heard that, according to accepted Islamic sources, Mohammed, at age of 49, married a 6-year-old girl, and that he had sex with her when he was 52 and she was only 9 years old. Is that really true?
  • Sharia law says that it must rule over the kafirs, the non-Muslims. Do you agree with this?
The students were in the state capitol as part of an annual Muslim Day organized by the Council on American-Islamic Relations that seeks to introduce members of the community to their representatives. CAIR was the first to publicize the questionnaire, butBennett confirmed it and justified his actions in an email to Tulsa World...

The executive director of CAIR-Oklahoma, Adam Soltani, who published a video on Facebook recounting the experience, said the questions were “stupid, Islamophobic, hateful, [and] bigoted.” The students never did get a chance to talk to Bennett, a former marine. “What's most inflammatory is the questions itself, the fact that Muslims have to pass a religious test in order to see a representative of our state, surely he does not do this to Christian constituents or Jewish constituents,” Soltani said.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...muslim_students_if_they_beat_their_wives.html
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so you are saying, that beating your wife is a religious activity?......
 
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