Muslim cleric says its ok to force wives to sex and beat them

I wonder where the imam got the idea it's ok to forcefully have sex with wives and to beat them....*cough* *cough* the quranAFP

SYDNEY (AFP) — A Muslim cleric who reportedly said men have a right to force their wives to have sex and to hit them if they are disobedient has been told to apologise by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

"Under no circumstances is sexual violence permissible or acceptable in Australia," Rudd said over cleric Samir Abu Hamza's reported remarks in a sermon posted on the Internet.

"I would call upon this Islamic cleric to publicly apologise and repudiate his remarks," Rudd said.

The cleric said in his sermon, entitled "The keys to a successful marriage," that it was a man's right to demand sex from his wife whenever he felt like it, the Daily Telegraph reported.

"If the husband was to ask her for a sexual relationship and she is preparing the bread on the stove, she must leave it and come and respond to her husband, she must respond," Hamza was quoted as saying.

He reportedly scorned Australian laws which make it an offence for a man to force his wife to have sex, saying: "Amazing, how can a person rape his wife?"

Hamza also said Islamic law allowed men to hit their wives as a last resort but should not bruise them or make them bleed, the paper reported.

What an islamophobe!