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This site was established to bring community awareness to the issue of domestic violence in Muslim families. We hope to educate and share information about domestic violence's impact on Muslims so that we can break cultural stigmas around this topic and empower survivors to speak out and find help. |
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What IS Domestic Violence?
According to ISNA, family violence and abuse is described as a pattern of behavior used to establish power and control over another person through fear and intimidation, often including the threat or use of violence. Battering happens when one person believes he or she is entitled to control another.
Islamic Society of North America
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Abuse is a pattern of coercive control that one person exercises over another. Battering is a behavior that physically harms, arouses fear, prevents a partner from doing what they wish or forces them to behave in ways they do not want. Battering includes the use of physical and sexual violence, threats and intimidation, emotional abuse and economic deprivation.
The National Domestic Violence Hotline
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The cycle of abuse and domestic violence within Muslim families may be better understood by looking at the "power and control wheel." {Insert link/pdf here}
It is important to realize that domestic violence is a community issue that does not impact a certain "type" of person - it is an equal opportunity offender. Women of all races, socio-economic statuses, ages, and faiths can be vulnerable to violence by an intimate partner.
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Statistics on Domestic Violence
(taken from: The National Domestic Violence Hotline)
 4 million American women experience a serious assault by a partner during an average 12-month period.
92% of women say that reducing domestic violence and sexual assault should be at the top of any formal efforts taken on behalf of women today.
1 out of 3 women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime.
1 in 5 female high school students report being physically and/or sexually abused by a dating partner. Abused girls are significantly more likely to get involved in other risky behaviors. They are 4 to 6 times more likely to get pregnant and 8 to 9 times more likely to have tried to commit suicide.
Some estimates say almost 1 million incidents of violence occur against a current or former spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend per year.
As many as 324,000 women each year experience intimate partner violence during their pregnancy.
Seventy-four percent of all murder-suicides involved an intimate partner (spouse, common-law spouse, ex-spouse, or boyfriend/girlfriend). Of these, 96 percent were females killed by their intimate partners.
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