.... He certainly takes a different view of what in the UK is considered domestic violence. He argues that a man "may use beatings to discipline his wife", but he says, "he must beat her lightly".
This caveat may explain why the Home Office, post Woolwich/Nigella, feels this is the sort of foreign preacher this country needs.
Despite our enlightened cleric's dubious views on Shia Muslims and Jews, which the Swiss felt were not the sort of the thing people should be propagating in the land of cuckoo clocks, the Home Office seems to take a different view. Mr al Arefe is expected to preach at a London mosque at the weekend. [Sky News] Read more
