Mulsim Cleric Instructs how to "Beat Your Wife"?

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I am not sure how to respond to this?  I would have thought it a hoax if I didn’t already know what the Koran says about women as property.  I know I am just an American with a ethnocentric view of the world, but how can you love someone enough to marry them then want to strike them for any reason whatsoever?