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Outrage as “Obedient Wives Club” spreads across south-east Asia

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Summary of story from The Guardian, July 7, 2011

A women’s group that aims to teach Muslim wives how to “keep their spouses happy in the bedroom” is taking root in south-east Asia, prompting outrage from Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

It claims that Muslim women could curb prostitution and domestic violence by becoming ‘good whores’ to their husbands.

The Obedient Wives Club (OWC), which has chapters in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore and intends to open in London and Paris later this year, says it intends to curb various social problems, including prostitution and gambling which would, in turn, would lead to more harmonious marriages and societies (see WVoN coverage).

“In Islam, if the husband wants sex and the wife is not in the mood, she has to give in to him,” the Singapore club’s co-founder Darlan Zaini said recently. “If not, the angels will curse her. This is not good for the family.”

“It’ll never work here,” said 43-year-old technician Ramli bin Katyo. “Wives already know what to do to make husbands happy – and husbands, wives. They don’t need classes.”

Facebook groups, such as the Say No to the Obedient Wives Club in Singapore coalition, stress that “women are equal to men and we, in Singapore, should keep it that way”.

Defending the OWC’s controversial stance, Fauziah Ariffin, the Malaysian chapter’s national director, said: “When we said that husbands should treat their wives like first-class prostitutes, we were not putting wives on the same level with prostitutes.

” We are talking about first-class elite types, not street hooker types … Ordinary prostitutes can only provide good sex, but not love and affection, which only a wife can provide,” she told the Malay Mail.

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