Muslim preacher who ‘said husbands should hit their wives’ allowed to tour UK universities

January 9, 2016

A MUSLIM cleric who allegedly said displeased husbands should hit their wives “with a small stick” has been allowed to tour British universities unchallenged. Egyptian cleric Fadel Soliman has spoken at five events in the past year, in which he reportedly advocates domestic violence and outlines the “Islamic case” for sex slavery and polygamy. Mr Soliman is thought to have spoken at Nottingham, Leicester, Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield universities. He urged young Muslims to watch his disturbing 30-part video series endorsing violent and extreme practices

At a University of Sheffield event he told more than 100 students to share his controversial videos on Facebook. He also appears to have a celebrity-like following, with groups of women discussing how much they “loved” the cleric before the Sheffield event which was not formally segregated but at which men and women sat on opposite sides of the hall . One young woman even travelled all the way from London just to see him in the flesh.

Mr Soliman has denied he supports domestic violence, but in one of his 30-part video series he allegedly says: ”After passing through two stages of non-physical interaction, the next stage must involve something physical, in order to escalate the intensity of the warning. The true implication of the spanking is to sound an alarm that the husband has passed to a new stage of serious displeasure.”