Sabriya Palm
on: Domestic Violence against Women in the Gaza Strip: "A Woman Is Like a Carpet", by Ruth Kinet
Surah 34 by no means justifies men beating women. The word "daraba", which is usually deliberately falsely translated as "to hit", has a wide range of meanings and can only be translated in this context as "to separate" or at the most as "to make something clear by unambiguous verbal means".