Che Mohamad Zulkifly Jusoh, a Muslim MP from the ruling coalition, said during a parliamentary debate on domestic violence that husbands often suffer emotional attacks rather than physical abuse. "Usually, it involves wives cursing their husbands -- this is emotional abuse. It is ridiculous to say men are abused if women say no to sex." The 58-year-old lawmaker, from Terengganu state in Malaysia's Muslim heartland, also said that denying a Muslim man the chance to marry a second wife amounted to abuse. It is legal for Muslim men in Malaysia to have many as four wives.

Source: The Nation Bangkok July 26, 2017 09:11 UTC