Marital Rape: Islamic scholar Farhat Hashmi stirs a new controversy

Marital Rape: Islamic scholar Farhat Hashmi stirs a new controversy

ISLAMABAD - Islamic scholar Farhat Hashmi was slammed on social media for justifying marital rape, on Tuesday. A video clip of the scholar went viral in which she advises wives to submit to their husband’s ‘demands’.

“This woman was doing M.Phil from Cambridge University,” she said. “When she told me that her husband used to rape her, my head spun. Husband and rape?” she added.

During times like these when marital rape is a huge issue in the Islamic world, these comments by her have come off as being careless and offensive.

Farhat Hashmi MBCHB is an Islamic scholar, Muslim televangelist from Pakistan. and founder of Al-Huda Institute.

Well now she is being slammed. Her views seem to be irking people big time!