I don't necessarily approve of everything this woman is doing, but I must applaud her for the very clever naming of her organization.


http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h1Wcr1HWfmv9iDXPMgLCEhSqZMrQ?docId=CNG.d8595bca5666c62acd2c4571b115f96d.871

Malaysian women launch 'The Obedient Wife Club'
(AFP) – Jun 2, 2011  
KUALA LUMPUR — A group of Malaysian Muslim women say they will fight divorce, domestic violence and other problems -- by appealing to wives to be more obedient, according to one of the organisers.
Maznah Taufik said "The Obedient Wife Club" being launched Saturday is aimed at drawing women who will be taught how to please their husbands better to prevent them from straying or misbehaving.
"We just want to ask all the wives to be obedient wives so that there will be fewer problems in our society," such as infidelity, divorce and domestic violence, she told AFP.
"Obedient wife means they are trying to entertain their husbands, not only taking care of their food and clothes," Maznah said. "They have to obey their husbands. That's the way Islam also asks."
Malaysia is a Muslim-majority country, with some 60 percent of the population practicing the religion, alongside large ethnic Chinese and Indian communities who are mostly Buddhist, Hindu and Christian.
According to local media, the country's divorce rate doubled from 2002 to 2009, with rates higher among Muslims than non-Muslims.
Maznah said it was also the men's responsibility to teach their wives to be obedient.
"Some wives, they just want to get married for leisure but they don't know the responsibility," she said.
"To entertain their husbands is compulsory. If she doesn't do this, the husband will look for another woman... and the house will break down."
Saturday's launch near the capital Kuala Lumpur will include speeches and a show to demonstrate to women how to be good wives, Maznah said, adding that a similar club was set up in Jordan last month.
Maznah is already involved in another controversial venture -- the Ikhwan Polygamy Club, which was launched in 2009 to promote polygamy. Muslim men in Malaysia can take up to four wives.
She is herself in a polygamous marriage, as the second of her husband's two wives.
In 2010, a study by a Muslim activist group found men in polygamous relationships find it difficult to meet the needs of all their wives and children, and that the result is often unhappy and cash-strapped families.

Telesphorus,
Personally, I don't want to read about a Muslim woman's desire to be obedient to her polygamous "husband".  This post of yours makes me wonder if you read the whole article because near the bottom it says this woman is her "husband's" 2nd wife!  

Oh, yeah, and she's involved in a club encouraging polygamy.

If you really want to post about obedience of wives to their husbands, you'll have to do a bit more searching for something more edifying! A Catholic site is not the place for an article like this.

As I said I don't approve of everything this woman is doing, but her desire to promote obedience to husbands is laudable.  This woman's organization has made several news stories.  Would Christian women start an organization that is overtly like this?  I'm pointing out this woman's zeal, her cleverness in naming the organization, and the fact that it has made international news.  

I'm not holding my breath for Catholic women to form an organization promoting obedience to husbands.  Showing support for their husbands in the most non-PC imaginable - politically incorrect it makes international news.  

No an obedient Catholic girl would just do it and not try and be a leader which is the role of men.

Oh really?  They wouldn't try to be leaders?  I doubt that!

I do doubt they would form an organization promoting obedience to husbands.

Tele,

Most of the Catholic women that I know are too busy to start this type of group or if they do have time for apostolic work they are doing whatever it is that God has inspired them to do.

They seem to make time for such activities.  How hard is it to start such an organization?  Not hard at all.  I'm simply pointing out they wouldn't.  

Now, if she becomes a Catholic and starts preaching about Catholic principles, by all means let us know.  

She's teaching the principle that wives should obey husbands.  Should Hagar have not obeyed Abraham?  

Hagar's progeny seem to have a better grasp of the principle than today's Christians.

The Traditional Catholic women that I know are virtuous women and do not need to have an example of a Muslim woman shoved in their faces.  It seems to me that if you had more respect for Catholic womanhood, you would understand that.  

I'm not holding my breath for Catholic women to defend obedience to husbands with the same fervor that this woman does.

Would you post this article if your mother or grandmother were reading this site?  

Absolutely.

Having Muslim relatives and also having lived in Saudi Arabia, I can tell you that Muslim women tend to be unhappy in their Muslim marriage. The Muslims who live in a country that is part Christian also are more attracted to Christian men rather than Muslim men because they see that Christian men treat their women better.