Equality Minister Karita Bekkemellem wants Muslim communities that are open to the idea of beating women to lose their state support funds.
Bekkemellem refuses to accept imams who believe that physical punishment against women can be justified and will take up the matter with Minister of Culture and Church Affairs Trond Giske, newspaper Dagsavisen reports.
"It is completely unacceptable and the government will examine using state support as a means of pressure. Imams must distance themselves from violence against women, not come with statements that can legitimize it," Bekkemellem told Dagsavisen.
Imam Ikram Jilani, leader of one of the country's largest Muslim communities, the World Islamic Mission in Oslo's Grønland district, believes that men must be able to hit their wives to show anger in special circumstances, such as when the woman has been unfaithful, as long as she is not visibly injured.
Why is the state sponsoring religion in the first place?
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